Date of work: 6/13/2015
number of workers- 1 Jim deFriess for this report
time spent: 12.5 hours includes commute
Work done: Met for safety meeting with USFS at info Cabin
The group then went to cabin trail and built water dips- 6-8 I think. In the upper 300 yds of the trail, I participated.
After we finished on Cabin I drove to Old Conley, ate lunch and felt up to more, so I used shears as I descended CC trail, pretty much just clipping briers and stuff over the trail.
I walked down to the first difficult tree crossing took out the pulaski and chipped away at it, Me myself and I took turns, and I didn't make the cut initially wide enough so after hearing Ken's great advice in my ears - Which Mike repeated at the safety meeting.
I also heard my son Jared saying when chopping with a pulaski just let it drop, I tend to try and swing faster which can really wear a person out, good thing I was taking turns with myself. Finally got through the first tree then wrestled it off the trail after making a second cut to allow rotation.
I went further down the trail past the copperhead tree which isall but gone, to another tree across the trail. Started nice and wide thanks Ken, and kept chopping but not swinging hard - thanks Jared. Chopped through it and wrestled it off the trail.
Both trees were HARD, the one might have been Locust, the other probably red oak. Watched yellow jackets or hornets building a nest about 10' off the trail near the downhill cut. I didn't get close enough to identify. I was worried for a while a chip might fly and hit the nest, They didn't bother me - probably waiting for me to leave.
I was low enough I was into nettle by that point so I clipped it with the slingblade back up the trail, then walked out, it was about all I could do.
Great day in the woods- I miss doing that.
