worn out

[low_delta]

Returned the splitter this morning. Then started in on the pile of chips and dirt where the tree used to be. Took all the chips out that I could, and mulched the hedges and the norht east corner of the house. Took out all the dirt I could and spread it around the gardens on the south side of the house. There's still a big pile of dirt/chips. Too chippy to use for dirt, and too dirty to use for chips. Too big to leave, too. No idea what I'm going to do with it.

Cyn raked leaves for a couple of hours, bought some fence posts to end up our firewood stacks with, spreaded mulch around the hedges, and carried firewood over to the shed.

It started out nice, but turned drizzly. And it got dark too early. But that's okay, I was *done* by then anyway. We both worked our asses off this weekend.

Tomorrow night, I'll have to move the rest of the firewood off the lawn, and try to clean up the yard. I guess I'll leave the big pile of dirt/chips until spring. I was planning on having this tree down in august or september, but I was a lazy bastard, and never got around to it. Now I'm kicking myself, because the good time to work outdoors is just about over for the year, and so is all my free time. We leave next saturday for California and Arizona, and most of our week is going to be spent getting ready for that.

Comments

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

Leave the pile where it was ground up.. the area that the tree was ground out is supposed to settle, and if you move that pile, it may sink in a hole. I was told to not move any of it.. of course I DID move some, but most I left where it was. The area where the clump of three trees were cut down is level with the ground now, and only the huge old water oak area is still humped up high.. but then, there is air in between that hump and the bottom roots. I imagine it will settle more when those roots start rotting.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

There was a raised garden around the tree, so the ground level is going to have to be lowered by ten inches too. I'd rather take the chips out and replace them with dirt. And he didn't go very deep with the stump grinding.

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

Ahh.. that makes sense then. Mine were all on flat ground.

[marswalker.livejournal.com]

Keep the chip/dirt mix moist, and next spring after thaw, order a mushroom kit from some place like Fungi Perfecti, let them complete rotting the chips and roots. And if you order something like giant stropharia, there's no question which mushrooms are the edible ones (they'll be the size of frisbes, or larger). Or just use it in the compost heap.