The stay at home mandate has been a real blessing for me. I'm making progress on several projects. Got the old shed all demolished and cleaned up, almost ready to paint old refurbished 5' RFM, misc. repairs around the house, etc.
There are 4 or 5 trees here that have been dying for the past few years. As a warm-up exercise yesterday I took a small one down. It was rooted into the creek bank. The trunk was only about 18". After pruning it to about 10', I hooked a chain high and coaxed it down with the tractor. The semicircular furrows are where the top of the trunk scraped the ground when I pulled it from side to side to get the roots to let go.
When it did come free, the weight was a bit much for the tractor to pick it out of the creek. so I wrapped the chain around it and pulled. It rolled right up over the bank like magic. Had to pause for a photo op as it cleared the bank.
Found a picture from a couple years ago when the tree was healthier. It's the one roughly centered behind the bridge.
When the root ball was up on dry land there was an interesting-looking root. The wood looks a lot like an uncooked chicken breast or raw fish fillet. For scale, the pink is about 6" in width.
Now there's another project to add to the list. The brush forks I had were made specifically to fit the L3200 that was sold a few months ago and were part of that package. They were very useful over the years and with the work ahead it's going to be fab time again.