As we prepare for winter here, I’m trying to prune back and tidy up as much of the landscape as I can. I’ve still got those two big pine trunks (dead and fallen 3 years ago now) laying in a nearly-dry pond. My hope is to surround them with enough fuel to burn them down almost completely in place, because they’re too heavy to move without cutting them down to logs or chaining them to my truck. They are a little over a foot in diameter at the base, and I can’t get them positioned well for bucking with the chainsaw, so I’ve had to resort to using my axe. Excellent workout, but tough on the hands. And before someone says “gloves”, that’s a great way to lose your grip on an axe, at least if you’re me and almost no glove fits as the word would imply. Anyhow, now it’s supposed to rain most of the week, so it may not even be dry enough again to light up until November. Yay.
Use a spotter.
