daugen
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Billy, nothing like scraping wet green crud off the bottom of a deck. Since I never wear gloves it's even
more fun...
with the clippings dispersal problem I have been having with the new mower deck aka clumps, I made sure that was clean before I
tested the new gator style blades. They helped a lot, in addition to raising the mower up half an inch to 2.5
That's higher than most mow around here, more like up North, for fescue instead of Bermuda grass. But it clears a lot more roots that way.
I hate hitting roots. I apologize to the tree but I wonder if it hurts in some way. In fact I fired my lawn service they kept hitting my roots so much.
Growing up one of our most interesting neighbors was a Japanese family who lived close by up the hilly road and ran a wood furniture shop. Only solid wood furniture, all highly styled in a timeless way. His name was Nakashima, some of you may have seen his furniture. It's like art, it is art, with a price tag to match. My father could never afford the dining room table and chairs he wanted, it was the college fund or those chairs and the college fund won out. One of my closest friend's Father could afford it, and when that generation passed a few years back, the dining room set for 8 sold for $65,000. Serious stuff...and all driven by a philosophy stated on the front of a big coffee table book I have downstairs, named
Soul Of A Tree. The life and work of George Nakashima. He believed trees had souls and you had to carefully examine and even feel the tree to figure out what the grain would look like for an upcoming project. George and Myra used to come to all my parent's neighborhood parties.
Very quiet guy, like Yodo. He had been interred in Washington during WWII. Not a good thing for a patriotic guy but the times were the times.
Parents have passed, business run by daughter and son.
So this is why I try to treat tree roots (unless I'm planting...) with care. I admit though that trees fall into two categories for me, good trees and junk trees. Likely to be less careful with a junk tree, those maples and ashes and even oaks that pop up where you don't want them and sooner or later are going to have to get cut.
more fun...
with the clippings dispersal problem I have been having with the new mower deck aka clumps, I made sure that was clean before I
tested the new gator style blades. They helped a lot, in addition to raising the mower up half an inch to 2.5
That's higher than most mow around here, more like up North, for fescue instead of Bermuda grass. But it clears a lot more roots that way.
I hate hitting roots. I apologize to the tree but I wonder if it hurts in some way. In fact I fired my lawn service they kept hitting my roots so much.
Growing up one of our most interesting neighbors was a Japanese family who lived close by up the hilly road and ran a wood furniture shop. Only solid wood furniture, all highly styled in a timeless way. His name was Nakashima, some of you may have seen his furniture. It's like art, it is art, with a price tag to match. My father could never afford the dining room table and chairs he wanted, it was the college fund or those chairs and the college fund won out. One of my closest friend's Father could afford it, and when that generation passed a few years back, the dining room set for 8 sold for $65,000. Serious stuff...and all driven by a philosophy stated on the front of a big coffee table book I have downstairs, named
Soul Of A Tree. The life and work of George Nakashima. He believed trees had souls and you had to carefully examine and even feel the tree to figure out what the grain would look like for an upcoming project. George and Myra used to come to all my parent's neighborhood parties.
Very quiet guy, like Yodo. He had been interred in Washington during WWII. Not a good thing for a patriotic guy but the times were the times.
Parents have passed, business run by daughter and son.
So this is why I try to treat tree roots (unless I'm planting...) with care. I admit though that trees fall into two categories for me, good trees and junk trees. Likely to be less careful with a junk tree, those maples and ashes and even oaks that pop up where you don't want them and sooner or later are going to have to get cut.
