Day 42

We spent over 5 hours today on the trees.  I moved the stuff that I cut yesterday to the burn pile while Ellen started burning things.  She's getting more efficient at burning.  The rate at which the pile goes down is faster than it used to be.

While she burned I cut.  I cut down the last tree in the side yard, cut up the debris, and hauled them off.  Then I started on the trees in front.  I put the pole back on the saw and started cutting branches on all of the trees.   By the time I was finished most of them were just trunks.  That was good.  If I hadn't cut all of the top off of the tree nearest the house it would have hit the house when I cut it down. 

I cut the tree nearest the house completely down, cut up the debris, and hauled them off.  I figured that was enough for the day.  Ellen still had to finish up burning, so I decided to work until she was done.  I managed to cut down two more trunks as well as cutting up a couple of large branches that I had felled earlier.  This way I can haul up a couple of loads of branches tomorrow so Ellen can start burning while I'm cutting up trunks.

We're both really tired right now.  I wouldn't be surprised if we took tomorrow off.