Manacuring the Ponderosa!

It's a blistery 89 degrees or so today out on the old Ponderosa. I'm having a cyclone fence put in to replace a POS wire fence the previous owner put in ions ago. Of course this means several things needed to be done to do this. Who ever puts it in will need to be able to get the post hole digger in.

That area of the yard never really got alot of attention by me or anybody else as it looks like. I pumped up the tires on the boat trailer and the motorcycle and moved them. Did some raking and had a little bon fire. Cut down a 35' tree and trailered it. Mowed some of the lawn and started trimming some of the bushes back along fence line.

The tree, I have been pondering how I was gonna get rid of it for a couple years. Depending on how it could fall, it could take out the neighbors phone and power lines. I ended up climbing up a ladder and tying a rope to it and then anchored it to a telephone pole. When it was ready to go, I untied it and pulled the direction it needed to go...no muss no fuss.

Pretty productive day all in all. It may take another couple of days work to get the fence line ready. Part of the job is to pull out some of the sucker trees so they don't end up eating the new fence down the road. Haven't decided if I'm gonna use the jeep or call in a tractor yet. The real problem now is that the trailer is full. Not sure how much more I can stack on top.

Little Joe decided she wanted to see how to run the new mower today. It's still under warranty and new so I figured she would have many problems...no problems!

Hop Sing is starting dinner so I guess I better go cleanup.

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Suprised myself and got the project done. Even got a load off to the dumps on Monday. Well not completely done...need to make 1 more dump run to the mulch pile. I pulled out several of the sucker trees that could cause problems down the road. Just a few more of those in other areas to do and I finally have a handle on the infestation. Tree of Heaven my behind.