I'm a chaos gardener - and recently a friend dubbed my garden 'feral' - but last year I downright neglected it and the weeds overtook everything. This year I'm working very hard to reverse that.
Hmmm...That's one implement of destruction I don't have.
The big Orange Box store added the chainsaw on a stick to my toolpile shortly after our big heavy snowstorm this winter. It was handy for the any sassafrass that got beat down by the snow, the volunteer pines, and even most of the magnolia branches that are trying to collect the shingles off the roof. Given that the remaining branches will require a ladder, my sense of balance to actually work and caution around the utility connection, I think a pruning tool like yours might be 'zactly what I need. (FWIW, our SPS is too lazy to move anything other than flower bulbs. I use the leaf blower to try to move the acorn piles)
I was visiting a rural friend yesterday and he showed off his newish Stihl battery-powered chainsaw. Maybe a 12" bar and very sharp, but what I liked was the weight and balance. Sure, it's bigger than your sweet little mini, but it cuts through 3-4" branches. Very, very tempting.
I hadn't planned on buying any more power tools, but your experience may change my mind. Right now, I'm using a rickety step-ladder to get the high stuff, and being shaky while holding sharp things isn't a good combination. My gift-from-God, happily-ever-after trophy wife Vanessa, the elegant, foxy, praying black grandmother of Woodstock, GA might endorse this purchase as well, since she's doing outside gardening again this year.
Your garden is art. It's lovely to see in pictures
My yard is so out of control. Lots of overdue pruning…
I'm a chaos gardener - and recently a friend dubbed my garden 'feral' - but last year I downright neglected it and the weeds overtook everything. This year I'm working very hard to reverse that.
Hmmm...That's one implement of destruction I don't have.
The big Orange Box store added the chainsaw on a stick to my toolpile shortly after our big heavy snowstorm this winter. It was handy for the any sassafrass that got beat down by the snow, the volunteer pines, and even most of the magnolia branches that are trying to collect the shingles off the roof. Given that the remaining branches will require a ladder, my sense of balance to actually work and caution around the utility connection, I think a pruning tool like yours might be 'zactly what I need. (FWIW, our SPS is too lazy to move anything other than flower bulbs. I use the leaf blower to try to move the acorn piles)
sounds like acorn projectiles, just saying ;-)
It is also beyond time for me to do the equipment prep for the year.
::sigh::
Spring for me starts in February, most years. But I do get a break in high summer when it’s too hot to be outdoors much.
Just bought this yesterday. Think I am going to love it.
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I have one like it and use it a lot! It will take on bigger limbs than the pruning shears can manage.
I was visiting a rural friend yesterday and he showed off his newish Stihl battery-powered chainsaw. Maybe a 12" bar and very sharp, but what I liked was the weight and balance. Sure, it's bigger than your sweet little mini, but it cuts through 3-4" branches. Very, very tempting.
I hadn't planned on buying any more power tools, but your experience may change my mind. Right now, I'm using a rickety step-ladder to get the high stuff, and being shaky while holding sharp things isn't a good combination. My gift-from-God, happily-ever-after trophy wife Vanessa, the elegant, foxy, praying black grandmother of Woodstock, GA might endorse this purchase as well, since she's doing outside gardening again this year.
I truly love Vanessa and the way you talk about her. And it also worries me to imagine you on a rickety stepladder!
April around here is iffy. Crops are just now going into the fields around us.