Friday, August 24, 2018

Good morning crew,

I had a couple of mulberry bushes growing in my backyard and both of them were becoming a real nuisance. One of them was choking out my lilac and the other one was about to take down a gutter. So I decided to remove them.

But being the cheap bastard I am I was determined to do it with the only tool I have; a hand pruner.

It took me two weeks and I just finished last night in a two hour blitz of hand pruning. Every branch had to be clipped into 6-inch lengths so they would fit into the yard waste bags, and now I feel like Popeye looks. My forearms are wrecked.

But there is still one job left that I can't finish with a hand pruner. The stump. I was about to give up and actually spend money to buy an axe when I hit upon what could very well be a brilliant idea.

In the garage I have a bolt of heavy duty nylon line. I also have an 8 cylinder, 355-horsepower SUV with a trailer hitch. It seems to me like it would be a short job to tie that stump onto the trailer hitch, pop the old 'wagon' into low gear and gun it.

I think I'll try it this weekend. What's the worst that can happen?

Laugh it up,

Joe

joe@gophercentral.com

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