Trees are TOUGH. I know how it is, once you start, you think, just a little more, just a little-- and then you straighten up and your whole body says NO, LOOK WHAT YOU DID TO ME.
*HUGGLES* I hope you get over your aches soon.
I'm still working on the loquat, and it's NOTHING like what you were doing. The branches are maybe a little bigger around than my wrist, so they're a size that can (not easily, but possibly) be cut with an extensible pruner that uses leverage on a chain to snip.
And even that gets tiring, I cut enough to make one bundle to walk out to the curb (not TOO large a bundle- my father used to call it a 'Lazy man's load' when you try to carry too much at one time to save journeys.) Then I come in to rest up for a while before going back out. Bulk pickup is on Monday, so I have enough time to do a lot of it with rests in between. For some of it I MAY have to get a ladder and saw (a double-action/quick cut handsaw is MUCH easier than the old fashioned kind because it cuts on both the push and the pull). I haven't got to the point where I can tell if I need to do that.
I'm just glad I didn't wait any longer, because the top branches are only a few feet away from the street light power line- and with enough rain, it can grow fASt.
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*HUGGLES* I hope you get over your aches soon.
I'm still working on the loquat, and it's NOTHING like what you were doing. The branches are maybe a little bigger around than my wrist, so they're a size that can (not easily, but possibly) be cut with an extensible pruner that uses leverage on a chain to snip.
And even that gets tiring, I cut enough to make one bundle to walk out to the curb (not TOO large a bundle- my father used to call it a 'Lazy man's load' when you try to carry too much at one time to save journeys.) Then I come in to rest up for a while before going back out. Bulk pickup is on Monday, so I have enough time to do a lot of it with rests in between. For some of it I MAY have to get a ladder and saw (a double-action/quick cut handsaw is MUCH easier than the old fashioned kind because it cuts on both the push and the pull). I haven't got to the point where I can tell if I need to do that.
I'm just glad I didn't wait any longer, because the top branches are only a few feet away from the street light power line- and with enough rain, it can grow fASt.