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My first removal ever was ~20 years when a blue spruce partially uprooted next to my drive. I tethered the tree to one of my locusts to keep it from going over, limbed it going up, leaving longish stubs as a ladder, then taking it down from the top. All with a bowsaw. An ash later came up next...

I wonder what the idea is there? I can see the first ladder, but the second one just complicates the natural ladder already in place.

Every time I make it somewhere with the chipper on the back of the truck, I think "Wow, I made it!" :^D

Thanks for the reminder. I need to blacklist twitter too. I'd sometimes see them linked for funny pictures, and I'd go over to see, but now it won't work with js disabled, so I'll block it completely.

I block Quora from my search results. There's nothing of value there.

Somewhat related...

I worked with a guy that was almost killed by a jackhammer. He fell in a hole with his finger locked on the trigger, and it vibrated his guts apart. He also got hit by a traffic barrel, and it messed up his back. He was on lots of pills. We got him on discount as part of a rehab\back to work...

...cool shit out there, but it's impossible to check it out up close. The Voyagers have been flying almost 50 years. They /just/ left the solar system, and are about 1 light day away. Next closest star system is about 4 light *years* away. So... 365*50*4=73,000 years. I'll keep the light on for...