lumberjack

A few weeks ago we went down to visit Carrie's parents and I ended up getting coned into manual labour. :) There were a few trees in the back yard that needed to come down.

Kirk brought along a chainsaw, but half way through the first tree it stopped working. So we started using the little pruning saws that were on hand. They didn't work at all. So we went searching for something that would work. I found a mostly sharp ax and we gave that a go.

Dad (Carrie's Dad) chopping the tree

The ax was a bit slow going so I searched around a bit more and found a huge saw. And after MacGyvering a second handle for it, we gave that a go.

First Dad and I tried.

Then Kirk and I tried.

In the end, the saw, as cool as it was, just didn't work for us. So we went back to chopping with the ax and pulling on the tree with a rope to try to get it down.

While these to guys pulled,

I chopped.

And eventually we did get the trees down.

Victory at last.