{"id":831,"date":"2008-07-23T12:10:07","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T18:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=831"},"modified":"2008-07-23T12:10:07","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T18:10:07","slug":"brute-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=831","title":{"rendered":"Brute Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>81\u00a0 bar falls 30.07\u00a0 0mph WSW dew-point 60\u00a0\u00a0 Summer<\/p>\n<p>Waning Gibbous Thunder Moon<\/p>\n<p>The stump grinder applies brute force to the problem.\u00a0 It has carbide tip blades on a rotary cutter that looks like a saw with few, but deep set teeth.\u00a0 The first time required something of a learning curve, but not too much.\u00a0 What it required more was strength.\u00a0 The weight in it sits low to the ground and the tires were soft, so yanking it around the property had aerobic and resistance qualities.<\/p>\n<p>The two yew stumps out front disappeared, though the mugo pine stump remains.\u00a0 It had too much that required cutting with a chain saw, something to do before the next rental.\u00a0 Four smaller stumps in the back went under the blade.\u00a0 The major work though required putting the blade deep in the earth in the area where the fire pit will go.\u00a0 This was to eliminate a number of roots encountered on the first round of digging on it last fall.<\/p>\n<p>Kate made a nice lunch of encrusted sole with beans from our garden and a salad that contained some items from the garden. \u00a0 The heirloom tomatoes have begun to change color, perhaps next week we&#8217;ll have our first.\u00a0 These fruits are as big as my fist.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a nap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>81\u00a0 bar falls 30.07\u00a0 0mph WSW dew-point 60\u00a0\u00a0 Summer Waning Gibbous Thunder Moon The stump grinder applies brute force to the problem.\u00a0 It has carbide tip blades on a rotary cutter that looks like a saw with few, but deep set teeth.\u00a0 The first time required something of a learning curve, but not too much.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=831\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brute Force<\/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":[87,13],"tags":[597,610,609],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-our-land","tag-fire-pit","tag-fish","tag-stump-grinder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","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=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}