Good news on the eye surgery, Butch.
Perfect day here.
Still frost and sunny and today abolutely no wind.
You could have lit a candle outside, it was that calm.
So I felled a strip of beech from 1809 along a road, I've been waiting for a calm day to do.
I don't much like felling along trafficked roads. Lose one across the road and it would be a career changing event.
With no skidder on the site, how would one go about removing the log.
Traffic would be backed up for miles. hardly bears thinking about.
So I always end up with thich hinges, to make sure they go as planned, and of course have to hammer wedges like mad, to force them over with those hinges fighting me.
Then there is the chance that a passing motorist will see a tree falling, even if it doesn't fall on the road, panic and drive into something.
In 83 I felled a large spruce along a road, woman driving by saw it, panicked and did a left turn into a freshly plowed field.
Took us forever to get her car unstuck.
Fortunately I had warning signs up, so she had to admit it was an over reaction to a tree falling maybe 60 feet away from the road.
But, had she hit another car head on, it would have been a bad day for me.
Everything went well, glad to have that one over with.