Sunday the guy came to take down the messy silk-tree and one other unidentified tree along the top of the embankment. He had a F-550 with a dumper box and his own chipper – YAY! for entrepreneurship!
Both trees were about 12-inches across and some 20-odd feet tall. They blocked the afternoon sunlight and my neighbors’ view of the far hillside, and make a general cleanup mess while not providing useful shade or much else, and at the same time growing into each other. Time for them to go. Now I got an extra hour of daylight.
He was pretty quick and effective, first with the pole saw then the chainsaw, and left us with a bunch of logs and a giant pile of chips – like a yard-and-a-half or more.
This morning, in the cold morning air, we started raking and shoveling the chips into my yard-wagon. He had dumped the chips on the far side of the driveway that was covered in weeds, so this should kill those weeds – and there was enough to load wagon after wagon and create a thick layer of chip-stuff all the way down to and around the propane tank. Yay!
Meanwhile Saturday was Gunsmithing-day. I swapped-out the stock mainspring and trigger springs in both Vaqueros with Wolff replacement springs – which took a bit of learning. The first one took about an hour as I read the Kuhnenhausen manual and tried to figure out the things to be careful-of, like the pawl spring/plunger assembly and the trigger spring plunger assembly…and then getting that put back correctly. The gun doesn’t work right until the cylinder is back in, so you don’t really know if you got it right, and twice I had to flip-around the hammer-strut. Oh well.
Then it was the turn of the 10/22 for a Nordic Components extended mag latch(for my big fingers), and a Volquartsen extractor and the Volquartsen automatic bolt-release. The gun comes apart easily enough and the pins practically drifted themselves out, but I struggled a bit with the bolt-handle guide-rod/recoil-spring assembly and the way it fits onto the bolt in the receiver race. Eventually it went in correctly.
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Good news, and yes tree guys are their own breed! 🙂
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Still a lot of fall work to do! I think I’m gonna re-rebuild the spillway “dam”at the edge of the fence into a more half-circle shape with bigger terrace block.
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Sooo, did the KTM get home? Did they find anything else?
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They found the correct muffler! Not a “Q-series” quiet but better than before and Forest Service approved. Kicks over ok and when it’s not tinder dry we’ll ride, I hope…hope to find some other septuagenarian riders…!
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Professional tree guys are amazing to watch. We had a dead 65′ cottonwood in the backyard when we bought this place, and the guys came out, took it apart, and had 90% of it cut up, chipped, and out of here in about 4 hours.
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65-feet is big! I think the big oak in the field/pasture is about that size, but I need to do some triangular math to figure it out.
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