THE TREE! (Warning: Whining ahead.)

[learnteach]

Ok, it's not a stump anymore.

Spent some hours digging it out completely. Ended up by flooding it, and moving the muck out. There's no dirt supporting it; it's held in entirely by the two conjoined roots in the back, which go through the post supporting the fence.

So, Goram it, now I have to take the fence down to get the stump out. That's about another 10 hours of work, not counting putting the fence back in place. (10 hours: clean yard, take fence down, dig out rest of stump.) If I use the chainsaw (which I need to return) on the unsupported stump the kickback would be dangerous, as I'll be leaning in to cut roots 2 feet below ground level in the pit, underneath another root.

Aaargh. This was supposed to be done within a week, so I could move on to the housepainting, which I was going to do before the rains came...a month so far, and only more work being created.

The next door neighbor and I have gone in on getting the fence fixed, so that fence is partially down. Joy and rapture. I'm getting to hate yardwork; I'm really tired of digging, and once I finish the tree, then there's the fence, and the front yard, and the back area, and the painting, and the trim, and and and.

FUCK. I need to get a real job so I can pay someone else to do this crap.

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Comments

[maestrateresa.livejournal.com]

At the risk of being stupid, and betraying my complete lack of knowledge of things outdoors....If what you have left is 2 feet down, can't you just bury it and have done? Why must the rest of it come out?

What I have left is 5 feet tall;

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

the new roots under the old roots (that Morgan was hacking on for three hours) are two feet down.) The root ball, which is about a foot high aboveground and a 4' by 3' obloid, has roots going under the fence.

Re: What I have left is 5 feet tall;

[maestrateresa.livejournal.com]

Damn! Much clearer now, thanks (very visual, I :)

So much no fun :(
You have my profundest sympathies!