Monday, November 10, 2008

Two women, a chainsaw and a steer does not equal 3 men







Two women, a chainsaw and a steer do a MUCH better job.

Robin B. came over to help me with logging out the woods - getting to the graze area so maybe I can seed it in the spring. Now, Marq and two guy friends came over and Sat and had a trial of errors trying to get going on it, and then Marq attacked it on his own some on Sunday, but there wasn't a huge amount of damage done.

The team of Robin, Claire, Shiner(corgi), Brick and Albert however - kicked some ass. Albert can pull trees about 2.5" or slightly more in diameter, 3 at a time, out of the woods, and man, that helps a lot. This was the first real trial of his new hames and collar harness, and it works perfectly. Albert just gets tied to a tree, lays down and chews his cud. We get a load ready, ask him "ready to go get a load?", he gets up, stretches, we hitch him to it, walk out the slack, say "hup" and off we go. No loads that he balked at or had trouble with at all. He's not really conditioned, so we'll work up slowly. He's still a baby anyway.

Shiner and Brick just hung out, lying there watching us wrestle brush. Probably laughing at us.

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