{"id":4690,"date":"2012-04-01T03:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:48:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:48:48","slug":"heavy-duty-gardening-tending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=4690","title":{"rendered":"Heavy duty gardening tending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Helping out my father in law doing some gardening tending. We needed to cut down the old birch shown in the picture below since it was dead and could fall down anytime.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2012\/04\/tending1_before.jpg?mtime=1333264700\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2012\/04\/tending1_before.jpg?mtime=1333264700\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>My oldest son watching it safely from a distance, sitting inside the New Holland.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2012\/04\/tending2_anders.jpg?mtime=1333264702\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2012\/04\/tending2_anders.jpg?mtime=1333264702\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>First needed to cut down a small birch.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2012\/04\/tending3_small.jpg?mtime=1333264705\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2012\/04\/tending3_small.jpg?mtime=1333264705\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Then the large one. Had the wire rope attached high up in the tree, so when I had prepared the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coloradofirecamp.com\/s-212-chainsaws\/dutch-creek-incident-glossary.html\">undercut<\/a> my father in law just tightened the rope a bit, and the tree fell down. Notice that quite a lot of the branches just snapped of when the tree hit the ground, proving that the whole tree was pretty dead.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2012\/04\/tending4_large.jpg?mtime=1333264708\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2012\/04\/tending4_large.jpg?mtime=1333264708\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Cutting another tree to pieces, got both chainsaws stuck (fu#\u00a4!!)<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2012\/04\/tending5_stuck.jpg?mtime=1333264711\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2012\/04\/tending5_stuck.jpg?mtime=1333264711\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>But, no problemo, having the right equipment nearby&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2012\/04\/tending6_noproblemo.jpg?mtime=1333264717\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2012\/04\/tending6_noproblemo.jpg?mtime=1333264717\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helping out my father in law doing some gardening tending. We needed to cut down the old birch shown in the picture below since it was dead and could fall down anytime. My oldest son watching it safely from a distance, sitting inside the New Holland. First needed to cut down a small birch. Then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12929,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690\/revisions\/12929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}