HotHedge 2005
August (yes I said August) 13, 2005
Cutting hedge in Ohio. The cutting wasn't bad...it was the splitting. Thankfully Ron had a 4 wheeler and we could pretty much drive to the tree. Really one of the easiest days of cutting I've ever had. Even got a catered farm breakfast out of the deal. Thanks go out to our host Ron Otto and his brother Steve for helping out.
On the drive in I caught the sunrise. I had to leave my house in Indy at 4:30 am EST trying to beat the heat. Almost ran over a coyote and 3 deer on the way there :)
Mickey and Ron after the cutting and splitting was done. I was too hot to take pics at the time of the work. It was over 80 degrees when we started and over 90 when we finished about 11:00.
These all came from one stump that had sprouted 4 brothers. They are small but we got 3 stave lengths from one of them and at least staves and billets from the rest. If I thought I was gonna be making bows another 20 years, I would have let them grow but...
Mickey's half (really more like 3/5 since I got all the billets) Thanks Mickey!
My haul.
And the whole crew: Ron Otto, Steve Otto, Mickey Lotz, and John Scifres
In the background is one of the big ones that got away!
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