11-19-2019, 01:28 PM
Welcome to old age Fred. It's a lot of fun, huh?
I still have a lot of yard work to do every year usually from late winter till late autumn.. Just about 2 months off in between.. We have just under a half acre here but in this less than half acre there are about 45 bushes that need constant trimming and cutting. Here in SC they grow up to about 10-20 feet every year. I cut many down to about 3-4 feet to just the basic stalks and within a few months they're already filled in and by years end already over the rooftops and everything needs to be disposed of. At my age it's really more than I can handle, but I do it. Luckily the county picks yard waste up on the side of the road, but it still has to be dragged there all uphill. Last week alone I cut two bushes in the front of the house down to about 3 feet each and by this time next year they'll grow right back to the same height..about 15 feet or more. I filled up my garden cart 12 times for those 2 bushes alone and the cart will handle a LOT more than I could possibly carry by hand. It's 3' x 5' and I haul it with a lawn tractor..
Crape myrtle here grows like weeds on steroids..but it makes great firewood once dried.
If I had to cut firewood here I wouldn't.. I'd use instead something like the MrHeater buddy series propane heaters.. I have a small portable model that can be used with either the small 1 pound tanks up to the much larger 20 pound tanks.. You might want to look into them. You ain't gonna get any younger and firewood ain't gonna get any lighter.
I still have a lot of yard work to do every year usually from late winter till late autumn.. Just about 2 months off in between.. We have just under a half acre here but in this less than half acre there are about 45 bushes that need constant trimming and cutting. Here in SC they grow up to about 10-20 feet every year. I cut many down to about 3-4 feet to just the basic stalks and within a few months they're already filled in and by years end already over the rooftops and everything needs to be disposed of. At my age it's really more than I can handle, but I do it. Luckily the county picks yard waste up on the side of the road, but it still has to be dragged there all uphill. Last week alone I cut two bushes in the front of the house down to about 3 feet each and by this time next year they'll grow right back to the same height..about 15 feet or more. I filled up my garden cart 12 times for those 2 bushes alone and the cart will handle a LOT more than I could possibly carry by hand. It's 3' x 5' and I haul it with a lawn tractor..
Crape myrtle here grows like weeds on steroids..but it makes great firewood once dried.
If I had to cut firewood here I wouldn't.. I'd use instead something like the MrHeater buddy series propane heaters.. I have a small portable model that can be used with either the small 1 pound tanks up to the much larger 20 pound tanks.. You might want to look into them. You ain't gonna get any younger and firewood ain't gonna get any lighter.
In the immortal words of my old man, "Wait'll you get to be my age!"
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse, but the one comfort we have is Cincinnati sounds worse. ~Oliver Wendal Holmes Sr.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse, but the one comfort we have is Cincinnati sounds worse. ~Oliver Wendal Holmes Sr.
