Posted by JDseller on August 02, 2015 at 10:30:27 from (208.126.198.123):
A good friend of mine called me earlier last week to see if I would come and help him clear some trees along his lane/road. He got a new school bus driver and the new one complained to the school about turning around in his drive. She said she could not see down the road far enough to safely turn around. I would agree that the view backing out was not the best butttttttt IT IS A dead end road!!!! There is ZERO traffic past his lane as there is a guardrail barricade two hundred feet past his lane/driveway. His lane is 3/4 of a mile past the next driveway. Well common sense falls prey to PC. LOL
So the county had to send out the driveway inspector??? Yes, a driveway inspector, his job is to inspect and certify all drive way entrances that are being installed/updated. You have to have a permit in Dubuque County to put in a driveway. HE wrote my friend a "PLAN" so the school would send the bus back the road. Without the "approved" plan he would have had to take his kids to the end of the road every day to meet the bus.
Here is the plan. He has to clear the brush and trees 40 feet back from the road right of way 300 FEET each way from his driveway entrance. WHAT THE HECK!!!! He pointed out to the "inspector" that the road ended 200 feet to the north. It made no difference you have to be able to see 300 feet.
Well the reason the road ends is there was a bridge right there that washed out fifty years ago or so. So it is a good sized creek. There are HUGE cottonwoods along the road there. Then south of his drive there were huge water maples. There were trees three feet across in the area they wanted clear.
So I get out the "big" saw, a Stihl 066 magnum. I put the larger bar, 48 inch, on it as the smaller 36 inch one would not reach on some of the trees. I had not used the big saw much with the big bar for 3-4 years. I am remembering why today!!! LOL
I cut down 18 BIG trees and three times that many smaller ones. I would fall them and then he would hook the whole tree to his tractor and pull them back his lane. That way we could cut them up out of the right of way. The falling took most of the morning. Then we started trimming and cutting any logs out of the whole trees. We did not get done until right at dark. His oldest son has a skid steer loader with a grapple bucket. He made short work of the limbs and brush.
He ended up with some pretty good maple logs and real nice cottonwood logs. There is a fellow that is supposed to buy even the cottonwood coming out this week.
SO we got the trees out of the way now he just has to clear the stumps and brush with his crawler. He has to be done in two weeks so it can be inspected in time for school to start.
I can tell you I am one sore puppy this morning !!! Thank the man above for some good pain meds or I would be crying. I can't move real well but I am getting by. Chores this morning were real fun. The loader tractor seemed much taller today for some reason. LOL
Here is the funny part. My friend is fifty and I am older, LOL, We where running the saws and such while his 20 year old son ran the cab skid steer with AC. Something wrong with that picture????
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