On April 2, 2020, I decided to tackle the large branches by my motor home.  One was there due to last winter’s heavy snow and the other branches were too close to the house, so I went up a ladder and sawed them off.  In the next two videos, I show how I use two different hand saws to cut through large branches.  In this case, the branch was too long for me to move it, so I had to saw it in two places.  This is no easy task.  It is nothing like working out at the gym where you go to a machine and do 15 reps or 3 sets of 15 reps.  This sawing is over and over and over.  It gets very tiring, but I have to keep going if I want to get it done.  On days when I know I am going to work very hard,  I skip my exercise program.  I save all my energy for the task.  My exercise program does help prepare my to have the strength to do this work.  I couldn’t do it if I was just sitting around all day.  It takes time to build up strength and endurance.  If you are just starting out learning to saw, I recommend that you do a little each day and don’t over do it.   

In the next video, I was careless and videoed through some string hanging from a tree.  This was a remnant from when I had my tarp on my motor home out like a lovely canopy.  It was a bad idea as the wind came and showed me that it didn’t approve.  My tarp wanted to fly away, so I had to tack it down securely so it would get ripped off the motorhome entirely.  

In this video, I saw through another branch and then show how I drag them to the tractor and load them on it.  These branches are bulky and heavy and my first attempt to put the large branch on the tractor ended in me dropping it and having to try again with a safer method.  Once on the tractor, I moved the branches to the garden site and dumped them off.  Even this process had its challenges when the smaller branches got stuck in the tractor bucket.  Happily, with patience and determination I was able to get the branch off.  

Below is a video just summarizing what I did on April 7 in moving branches into the hugel kultur bed.