Chainsaw.....Nifty

Wednesday we woke up to - I can't write it - snow.....blick.  Luckily the streets were warm enough to melt what we got but some of the snow stayed a few days on the grass in the shady areas.  And I had a largish limb that had come down in the back yard - see picture below.  I also got the snow shovels in their strategic locations (front porch, outside back porch and right by door in garage).  Poor Butler, he kind of slipped on the back porch, hit the snow shovel some how and knocked it over and then he went sprawling.......

Today was our second Sunday for our small group to host the Bread on the Waters grocery collection project table and we had another good response from church families taking slips with food items to purchase.  We also had some start to bring their items in today (they are in the plastic bags under the table).

So.....why did I title this blog Chainsaw???  I called a friend and her hubby from church asking if he would be able to help me with the branch in the back yard.  I wasn't sure if I still had Mike's chain saw or if Andy had taken it to Pennsylvania with him - and even if I did still have it - I didn't think I wanted to mess with it because it was fairly big and I would probably have had to mix oil and gas.  A pain.  I asked Jim if after taking care of the limb if he'd be willing to go to True Value with me to look at small chain saws and help me pick one out that I could have - thinking I'd go with a rechargeable one - so I could take care of future limbs instead of needing to call on someone to help me.  He said he was more than happy to help.

Well I decided to check chain saws out yesterday and stopped at True Value.  The only rechargeable one was like $140ish.  No way no how.  I didn't want an electric one to have to deal with extension cords so I left True Value not sure what to do - then I decided to head to Home Depot.  I got a nice young man to help me and we talked about how often I would use the chain saw - maybe once or twice a year.  I finally settled on a 14" electric chain saw - no mixing gas and oil.  The young man was really nice to explain how to care/clean the chain after using it too - BIG thing to know is to wear gloves when oiling/cleaning the chain so I don't cut myself!

So after church today Barb and Jim stopped by with Jim putting the chain oil in the chain saw and cutting up my branch for me.  When he was finished I wanted to make sure I knew how to start the chain saw and it's pretty slick and doesn't jiggle/bounce/kick/whatever at all.  And at that moment I understood why Tim the Tooltime Taylor made his grunting noises when it came to tools - I almost grunted too.  So.....next time limbs come down I'm good to go - unless it's half a tree or something :)