One of my main worries before purchasing the farm and when we first moved was farm accidents. One thing I am grateful for is my husband is very careful with the tractor.
I think there is a hard hat in the barn, if I remember right it has some attached ear mufflers. I don't really need the ear protection though I don't run the chain saw constantly. Cut a limb, turn off the saw, drag it to the burn pile, start the saw, cut another limb or two, stop the saw, drag the limbs to the burn pile. So it is not really constant so I don't beleive I need the ear protection.
I was wearing safety goggles because when I am cutting with the chainsaw/pole saw I am looking up at the limb and I get a lot of sawdust in my eyes. Those were annoying me so I started jsut wearing my regualr glasses, which i need to see distance and i actually don't ever wear on the farm. but for sawdust protection i am wearing them. the visor thing looks good but I am not sure on how practical it would be. I might jsut try wearing that hardhat if i can find it and see how I tolerate it. the thing is, i am moving in and out of the trees under branches stc. The ahrd had may cut into my maneuverability. I'll try it tomorrow and let you know. thanks for the suggestions!
We actually have a fertilizer speader in the barn. however my husband says that the bags of fertilizer are 90lbs each and he doesn't want to have to lift them up that high to dump in the spreader. Plus it looks like it would jsut hold one bag and he can get 3 bags in the wagon. today we used 12 bags. So instead of going to the fertilizer pallet 12 times he only had to go 4 times. So I agree with him about the fertilizer spreader not being all that useful especially if we can get the job done in 4 hours and we only do it twice a year. then there is hooking it up to the 3ph, what a pain.
this is where i disagree with my husband. The farm came with equipment. if we are not going to ever use the equipment i say sell it. it is jsut taking up room in the barn. He won't sell anything and I jsut can't see the logic in that position.
Thingy, yes we do prune the trees so that you clean out the centers. I jsut can't wait until we have done the major pruning on all the trees. i really enjoy the small pruning, and i am not getting to do it because of this heavy work. Next year, next year i hope that we can do a pruning of all our trees in one year. It's liek the saying "A stich in time saves nine" if we can jsut get them all in shape large and small pruining it should be a real pleasure to jsut maintain every year. call me crazy but i really enjoy pruning the trees. even though it is heavy work right now, I still enjoy it. What i don't enjoy and i fear is the burning. i ahve visions of my husband being careles and buring up all our trees. he jsut isn't as careful as I think he should be with burning. Of course he disagrees with me on that score, but I am so fearful of it i jsut let him do it and I literally cose the curtains so i can't see it, or go work in a different field. I wish some day to get one of those Jimma chippers and not burn at all! Like everybody else here in TBN a long lsit of "I'd like to have"
I think there is a hard hat in the barn, if I remember right it has some attached ear mufflers. I don't really need the ear protection though I don't run the chain saw constantly. Cut a limb, turn off the saw, drag it to the burn pile, start the saw, cut another limb or two, stop the saw, drag the limbs to the burn pile. So it is not really constant so I don't beleive I need the ear protection.
I was wearing safety goggles because when I am cutting with the chainsaw/pole saw I am looking up at the limb and I get a lot of sawdust in my eyes. Those were annoying me so I started jsut wearing my regualr glasses, which i need to see distance and i actually don't ever wear on the farm. but for sawdust protection i am wearing them. the visor thing looks good but I am not sure on how practical it would be. I might jsut try wearing that hardhat if i can find it and see how I tolerate it. the thing is, i am moving in and out of the trees under branches stc. The ahrd had may cut into my maneuverability. I'll try it tomorrow and let you know. thanks for the suggestions!
We actually have a fertilizer speader in the barn. however my husband says that the bags of fertilizer are 90lbs each and he doesn't want to have to lift them up that high to dump in the spreader. Plus it looks like it would jsut hold one bag and he can get 3 bags in the wagon. today we used 12 bags. So instead of going to the fertilizer pallet 12 times he only had to go 4 times. So I agree with him about the fertilizer spreader not being all that useful especially if we can get the job done in 4 hours and we only do it twice a year. then there is hooking it up to the 3ph, what a pain.
this is where i disagree with my husband. The farm came with equipment. if we are not going to ever use the equipment i say sell it. it is jsut taking up room in the barn. He won't sell anything and I jsut can't see the logic in that position.
Thingy, yes we do prune the trees so that you clean out the centers. I jsut can't wait until we have done the major pruning on all the trees. i really enjoy the small pruning, and i am not getting to do it because of this heavy work. Next year, next year i hope that we can do a pruning of all our trees in one year. It's liek the saying "A stich in time saves nine" if we can jsut get them all in shape large and small pruining it should be a real pleasure to jsut maintain every year. call me crazy but i really enjoy pruning the trees. even though it is heavy work right now, I still enjoy it. What i don't enjoy and i fear is the burning. i ahve visions of my husband being careles and buring up all our trees. he jsut isn't as careful as I think he should be with burning. Of course he disagrees with me on that score, but I am so fearful of it i jsut let him do it and I literally cose the curtains so i can't see it, or go work in a different field. I wish some day to get one of those Jimma chippers and not burn at all! Like everybody else here in TBN a long lsit of "I'd like to have"