Baymule’s Journal

[Baymule]

Here’s the oak tree line up. This one is in front of house, but far enough away that it won’t fall on the house. Bennet will take it down.

Tree #1

Tree #2 it is in the front yard and will have to come down in pieces.

Tree #3, will also have to come down in pieces. It’s across the driveway from end of the house.

Tree #4, it’s at the back of the house. Will have to be dropped piece by piece. It’s leaning towards the house.

Tree #5, it’s far enough away that it won’t fall on the house. Bennet was going to drop it, but changed his mind and struck a deal with Domingo, the tree cutter, swapped a steer for cutting the tree. Look closely, dead pine Tree #6 is standing on other side of the fence, but poses a threat to the new fence I’ll put up. The landowner said we could cut it.

 

[Baymule]

Snowmeggdon of February 2021 burned and damaged them badly. We had temperatures below zero and this kind of oak tree can’t take it. Now we are in drought with 100 plus temperatures and no rain, it has finished them off.

The tree cutter said he has been cutting a lot of trees that that freak winter storm damaged. Drought is killing them off now.

 

[Baymule]

Those were the before pictures, now the after pictures. Yesterday I was at the farm at 7:30, Domingo and 2 helpers were already there, working on Tree #2. I got back home at 2:30, it was 104F, I was tired. I went to the back of the house and started taking down the pipe fence panels.

They are easy, just tap the pin out with a hammer.

I got up to the front and stopped. After they went to the backyard, I finished taking the fence panels loose, but left them leaned against a T-post, too many tree branches to crawl over trying to carry the panels to the pile I was working on.

A neighbor came for firewood and Bennet loaded his trailer.

Branches of Tree #2.

They moved equipment to Tree #4 in the backyard. One of the guys went up in the bucket with his chainsaw to cut limbs. This tree was real close to the house.

Propane tank was right under the tree. None of the branches hit the tank. These guys were good.

Then they moved to the end of the house for Tree #3 and took it down a piece at a time.

 

[Baymule]

Here they are taking down the very tall dead pine. They roped it off and used the tracts to pull it, when it fell, it fell right along the fence line, but not on my property. Then they took down Tree #5

This concludes tree cutting for now. Lots of clean up!

 

[Baymule]

I went to the farm this morning and got two runs of T-Post clips taken off. I used side cutter pliers and needle nose pliers. Of course, the clips were triple twisted around the barb wire. I filled a 3 pound, 3 ounce coffee can with clips. Bennet said he’d roll up the wire, he wants it for fence patching. It was 10:30 when I finished and 94F degrees.

This is the end, got one side done, then did the other side done. That’s my truck at the end.

I went home and rested for awhile. Then I loaded up scrap plywood, T-posts and treated wood posts. It was 3:38 and 102F degrees.

 

[Mike CHS]

Those guys are good!

 

[Baymule]

Those guys are good!

Yes they are! And 2 of them want to buy ram lambs for flock sires. I showed a picture of my youngest granddaughter hugging Ringo. That clinched it. Ewes should start lambing in September and they each want a ram lamb when I wean them.

 

[Mike CHS]

All of Ringo's progeny that we raised have the same traits that he has. I have Cooper where he is safe to handle and likes the contact but Ringo came that way.

 

[Margali]

Snip is in the yearling butthead phase with me. We've had a couple shovel talks about going where I tell him. He's 100% nice with the kids when they have escorted visit though.

 

[Baymule]

My granddaughters loved on Snip and all the little lambs when he was a baby. They called it lamb training.