{"id":21345,"date":"2013-07-22T08:33:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T14:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=21345"},"modified":"2016-05-09T10:43:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T16:43:07","slug":"out-on-the-limbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=21345","title":{"rendered":"Out on a Limbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Moon of the First Harvests<\/p>\n<p>Sprayed brix-blaster and qualify this morning. \u00a0Breakfast. Then limbing the ash trees I cut down over the weekend. \u00a0As the dewpoint and the temperature rose, my inclination to do that work inverted. \u00a0I have one tree fully limbed, the four sapling ashes limbed and pulled away from the fence and a brush pile organized, ready to move. \u00a0Tomorrow limbing the second ash and either moving the brush pile (which will be a big job) or cutting the limbed trees into fire pit sized logs.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;m doing as much as I can with my felling ax and my limbing ax. \u00a0I like the direct work with no engine in between me and the task.<\/p>\n<p>In the summer the cliche about wood seems to mock. \u00a0You know. \u00a0Wood heats you five times. \u00a0When you cut it. \u00a0When you move it. \u00a0When you split it. \u00a0When you stack it. \u00a0When you burn it. \u00a0No splitting or stacking now, but the first two, cut and move, yes. They do generate heat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Moon of the First Harvests Sprayed brix-blaster and qualify this morning. \u00a0Breakfast. Then limbing the ash trees I cut down over the weekend. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=21345\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Out on a Limbing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21345"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39036,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21345\/revisions\/39036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}