We are back at the cottage, hurray! It's a very different climate from the last time we were up: I found myself wearing SIX layers of clothing and didn't even break out in a sweat. It's still amazingly beautiful though and we got to work straight away.
Darren's new pride and joy is his new chain saw, 'The Husqvarna'. Men go all dreamy when he talks about it. It's a good one. http://www.husqvarnachainsaws.co.uk/
Anyway, our mission today was to cut down the miscellaneous trees that were dead and/or rotting and 'dangerously' near to the buildings on the property and thus causing Darren great concern coming into [what they say will be - gaaaa] a harsh winter.
I am going to say from the onset that Darren displayed UNBELIEVABLE skills out there in the brush and it truly my hero. The first tree to go was the most worrying; a large dead birch 1 metre from the bunkie and looking like it could go at any time.
Darren hoisted a large ladder beside the tree and climbed up ( around 20m!) to lasso a rope around its circumference.
I was then in charge of 'hanging on to the rope' to make sure the tree didn't 'fall on the cottage'. Quite a responsibility some might say, for someone that doesn't weight much more than 100 pounds.
Darren started to cut away with the chain saw and before you know it, there was a deafening *crack* and the tree fell with tremendous force, laying about 1 metre adjacent to the cottage. I had been flung about 10 metres sideways and was quite buzzing with adrenalin. But we did it!
Here is a video one of the trees falling. It is [relatively] hard to take video footage when you are a key member of the felling team but I tried my best!
We then started to cut up the wood and lay down a log pile that would become a beast very quickly.
It was an AWESOME day and after a great afternoon's work we headed back to land ready for jalapeno poppers at The Firehouse. Bliss!
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