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- Assortment of eggs, with two ‘fart eggs’ (aka fairy eggs) on the left
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- Is potato
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- Mulch hay from first cutting with scythe
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- End view of primary shag-bark hickory trunk, which splits into 4 trunks, The butt of a fifth trunk is visible at the lower left.
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- Side view of the main trunks.
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- Side view showing upper branches.
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- This bad spot from an old injury (~30 feet up the trunk) was the main reason for taking the tree down before building a mini-barn directly beneath it.
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- Starting to trim small branches.
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- Over half done cutting and dragging away a seemingly infinite number of leafy branches.
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- Main trunk cut down to the bad spot.
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- Besides the primary bad spot, the secondary trunk on the ground below the main trunk also had a bad place (even higher up).
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- A goodly amount of wood ready to split, with much more to come.
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- Small wood from upper branches, with the main trunk in the background.
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- Log, with Mary (approx 6’9″) and Toby for scale
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- Sorgum and tomatos
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- Mary at work
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- Chickens
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- Tomato
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- Dog work: Tobias removes his harness
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- The one unbitten strap from Toby’s harness makes a good belt, with D-rings to attach a rope when working on the roof (and/or for Mary to attach a leash if/when necessary)
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- First batch of sauce tomatoes ready to be processed
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- Sorghum, 12-14 feet (based on Mary’s true height of ~5’5″).
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- Toby and Rafa about to play tug
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- Rafa post-op
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- Rafa hoovering his food
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- 14 pints of sorghum molasses
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- Rafa lounging on the porch mat
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- Rafa in Toby’s puppy bed
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- Wood from the last set of large rounds, waiting to go into the woodshed whenever I find and deal with a yellow-jacket nest
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- About 16 feet of the trunk yet to cut and split
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- Another of Rafa’s perches
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- Rafa wondering if I have food for him
I split a lot of firewood each year with a “Monster Maul”, several chords. Most of the trees are downed from wind or have died from one thing or another. Some of the trees are very big, but I don’t think I would want to tackle that twisted old hickory. Lots of luck with that.