Who said living an agrarian life was peaceful?
September 5th, 2010
Tree down over the driveway
Since moving to the ‘country’ I have heard the rural life described in many different ways… peaceful, relaxing, satisfying, etc. However no phrase or concept sums it up better for me than, “No rest for the wicked!”
As some of you may be aware, over the past couple of days Canberrra and surrounds have been innudated with a steady drizzling rain combined with high winds. In fact, wind speeds approaching 70km an hour have been recorded. However when you combine such high speed winds, and a sodden ground, you are bound to get trees coming down… and unfortunately that is exactly what has happend.
Overnight I have had 2 large trees and 1 large branch down in the surrounds of the house. One feel across the driveway, not causing any damage, but the other tree ‘collected’ the shed. Fortunately it didn’t do any significant damage to the structure.
The other branch came down across a boundary fence, and an internal fence, taking the electric fence offline. So this morning it was out with the chainsaw to clean up the mess… lots of good quality firewood though! 
Tree down over the driveway
Tree down on the Shed Roof
Branch over the Boundary Fence
Branch over the Internal Fence
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2 Responses to “Who said living an agrarian life was peaceful?”
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Hi,
Looks like you need a good chainsaw to keep up. What are you using?
I have a cheapie that is driving me nuts and looking at buying something decent. Just thought I’d ask what you use and if you can recommend any particular saw.
I like the idea of the stihl farmboss ms311 or 391 (maybe just a catchy name) but I read somewhere the new ones have a fault with the filter retainment clips. Not enough pressure to seal or something.
Maybe the earlier versions would be better and cheaper but I do kind of like the idea of buying new. Also I believe the huskies aren’t bad either. I’ve had to ignore a fallen tree on one of my back boundary fences becuse the little saw would never cut through it. Lucky I don’t have any animals yet. : (
regards
Mike
I am currently using a Huskie and finding it quite good. It certainly wasn’t a cheap buy, and I get it serviced regularly, but the benefits are that any time I need it it is there and ready for use. The only thing that I would reccomend is buying a couple of spare chains. I haven’t done this yet and each time I have a big job to do, I always regret having to stop to sharpen the chain. It’s not a big issue but it certainly makes things easier if you can just swap over the chain and keep going.
Good luck with it.