Wednesday, 17th March 2010
Today I went to the Minlaton Golf Course where we assisted a local volunteer, Don, in the removal of the dreaded, deadly, apocalyptic, man-eating, evil trees of death.................THE ALEPPO PINES. They're not really that bad but still a pest. They were introduced to Australia in the early days as wind breaks but have now spread all over many parts of Australia including the Yorke Peninsula. We were given saws and loppers and were told to basically cut down and snip every Aleppo Pine we could see. I started off with some loppers and went to work eradicating the smaller trees. Eventually I found myself with a saw and I started to cut some medium sized ones (the big ones were for Ned's chainsaw). I found this way more satisfying because the trees were bigger and more noticable, the feeling I got when I finally got a tre down was awesome. I was cutting some trees when I noticed a bigger tree I think was meant to be reserved for the chain saw. I decided to give it a go. After a while, with some help from Cy, I finally got it down and I felt pretty proud of myself. Onother thing that made me fell pretty good was when Beardie said that I was working the hardest out of eveyone and that I had the best work ethic. All up, Don thinks we got around 200 trees which I think is a good effort.
Xav, you really seemed to like this project and you sound like you were quite determined to do an effective job.
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