Elderberries are loaded with flavanoids, which are good immune system builders, so Susan has been processing berries into juice and preserving it to use over the next year. We don't have an elderberry thresher. Susan freezes the berries in a paper grocery bag, then shakes it up real good to separate the berries from the stems. We will be planting Sambucus cuttings next spring and may have to improve our processing in a few years. Back To The Old Grind!
13. Clear your work area and your escape path of brush, vines, and other hazards that can trip you or catch your saw.
14. Escape from the bullseye when the tree tips. 90% of accidents happen within 12 feet of the stump. Go more than 15 feet, and stay out of the bullseye until things stop falling.
15. Keep spectators away more than twice the height of the tree in the direction it will fall.
16. Don't cut alone.
17. Keep your body and the swamper's out of the line of the bar in case of a kickback.
18. Set the brake when taking over two steps or when moving through tripping hazards. Keep your trigger finger off of the throttle when you are moving.
19. DO NOT operate a chainsaw from a ladder! Operating with your feet off the ground requires special training.
20. Do not cut above your shoulders.
21. Springpoles must be shaved on the inside of the apex between the ascending and descending sides. If the apex is higher than you shoulders, stand under the springpole and cut it low on the descending side. It will release upward, away from you.Leaning and heavily loaded poles that are too small to bore cut for a hinge should be shaved on the compressed side until they fold.
22. Do not cut a tree that is holding up a lodged tree. Do not work under a lodged tree. Think about a mouse trying to steal the cheese out of a trap.
23. Instruct your swampers and helpers to NEVER approach you from behind or the sides to within the reach of your saw when you are cutting. If you pull out of a cut with the chain running, or have a severe kickback, the swamper can be killed if he is coming up behind you!
24!! Quit When You Are Tired!
4 comments:
Bottles of Sambucol in the freezer since the 'real thing' isn't as easily available as it used to be. Elderberry and blackberry cordials were my favorite 'medicine' long before Dimetapp. There was a processing plant 1/2mi down the hill from where I grew up in PA. They'd process tens of thousands of pounds every year. They grew wild around that area, sadly choked out by the trees that were left to grow. I had plans on putting in a few hundred bushes on the farm...but that deal fell through along with a lot of other dreams.
Bottles of Sambucol in the freezer since the 'real thing' isn't as easily available as it used to be. Elderberry and blackberry cordials were my favorite 'medicine' long before Dimetapp. There was a processing plant 1/2mi down the hill from where I grew up in PA. They'd process tens of thousands of pounds every year. They grew wild around that area, sadly choked out by the trees that were left to grow. I had plans on putting in a few hundred bushes on the farm...but that deal fell through along with a lot of other dreams.
We drive the backroads to gather ours, but we are going to plant a few rows next to our garden.
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