{"id":22537,"date":"2023-02-13T12:32:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T17:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22537"},"modified":"2023-03-15T12:11:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T17:11:22","slug":"cutting-stumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22537","title":{"rendered":"Cutting Stumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22539\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/img_20230213_006524.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22539\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/img_20230213_006524-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Henry, with Chainsaw\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/img_20230213_006524-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/img_20230213_006524-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/img_20230213_006524-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/img_20230213_006524-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/img_20230213_006524.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry, with Chainsaw<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I spent the day with Dorothy at Rocklands today. She has been clearing the undergrowth from an old fence line for a good while. It&#8217;s almost a quarter of a mile long and was quite overgrown in places, so it was a big job. Most of the brush has been cleared but some stumps needed to be cut closer to the ground. That was my task. This Stihl chainsaw was my dad&#8217;s and I&#8217;m very comfortable with it. It&#8217;s on the small side (only a 16&#8243; bar) but for this sort of work, that&#8217;s actually better than something larger. As I get older, my upper body strength is a bit less than it used to be, as well, so if it were heavier, I&#8217;d give out that much sooner. I have it in for servicing a few weeks ago and it starts up very easily and runs very well.<\/p>\n<p>While I worked on stumps, Dorothy pulled out the old fencing. It&#8217;s rusted and in places buried, going through an occasional tree. Getting all of that out is a big job. After I finished with the stumps (except for those I assume are still under the piles of brush) I moved Dorothy&#8217;s piles of wire to one spot where they can be loaded onto a truck and hauled away. It was a tiring day&#8217;s work but nice to be outdoors and away from the office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the day with Dorothy at Rocklands today. She has been clearing the undergrowth from an old fence line for a good while. It&#8217;s almost a quarter of a mile long and was quite overgrown in places, so it was a big job. Most of the brush has been cleared but some stumps needed &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22537\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[2772,1004,3310,3311],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22537"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22542,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22537\/revisions\/22542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}