Feeling really good about one thing. A logging contractor and 3 of his work team showed up yesterday at my home. After walking all the 2+ acres, he has accepted my offer. He will cut down and haul off all my pine trees, plus scrape the bottom of my forest floor in exchange for the free wood. It will cost me nothing.
One thing, since I insisted it be done on weekends while I am home, he told me it will probably take him several months ... probably about 3 or 4 months. That is fine with me. This logging labor is wearing me out. I do not know how anyone does this type work as a full time job. I told the contractor he needed to go next door and get a few of my neighbors trees too. He said he would. I wanted to make sure she got in on this deal too. He wants us to tie that loud pink colored stretchy tape on the ones that are to be removed and was about to give me a few rolls.I told him thanks but I had already purchased numerous rolls for this particular task. He said he cannot start for a couple or so weeks, needs to get home, look at his schedule and find the work-in dates, then will get back with me.
This is such an enormous relief to me. Yes, it will be well into the spring, proably summer before it is all done. The copperhead and timber rattlesnakes will be present in full force but once I get all the pine trees and pine mulch, straw, cones,etc. gone ... I can do a much better job keeping the majority of the snakes off my property. Be easier for me to protect my dogs from them. My dogs' safety is the main and total reason for all this.
I will still have hardwood trees for shade but blowing leaves into a pile, then bagging and hauling away will be a stroll in the park compared to the physical labor I have to do with all these pine trees. They are pretty but "pretty" does not compensate in the least for the cyclic, hard, never-ending labor. I am getting off that merry-go-round! LOL!
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