T. I. M. B. E. R. !!!!!

Thank you everyone for the comments about the fireplace, the macerator and the toolbox.  My head is spinning with all the new information, mostly about how nothing works unless you are hooked up to electricity.  More on that later!

NOW YOU SEE IT ..... 

NOW YOU DON'T!!

This was a very pretty sycamore tree that came with the house.  Unfortunately, the people who planted it, didn't dig deep enough.  All its huge and extremely wide (up to 40 feet) root system was running above ground, about to tear up the fence on the right as well as starting to lift the concrete.  It was time to go!!  

These are the same expensive (in my checkbook anyway) guys who trimmed up the back wall last year.  Let's face it ... if you want a job done right, you have to pay for it.  I don't mind doing that at all when they are as professional as this crew is.

They used their chainsaw on a stick to lop all the lower branches so this guy could climb to the top.  He's the MAN, because at the top, it was none too wide.  He had a little one-hand chain saw hooked on a chain around his waist that he used to get the top branches off.

Everything was then gathered up by the two guys on the bottom and stuck into this monster eating machine.  I just love a good machine!!  They were sticking in 5" wide branches like they were toothpicks.

With the top finally gone, he climbed back down, cutting off 3 foot sections all the way to the bottom.  I was amazed to see them stick those 12" wide 3' long chunks in the machine which promptly chewed them up.  WOW!!

Then they brought out the next machine that eats up stumps like I eat cookies.  A little messy, but it sure got the job done.  

They raked and raked, cleaning up everything.  I told them to leave the leaves for my lawn guys.  Cooper was pretty surprised to find his favorite tree gone.  He's looking for his buddy Halo from next door, who will also be surprised that HIS favorite tree has disappeared!!  Yeah ... two dogs and one tree!!

The other main reason this tree needed to go is that it was a danger to the top of my fifth wheel.  I couldn't get out the gate and far enough left to miss those low hanging branches.  I had them trim some branches on the other two trees also, making it a clear path of escape.  I'm glad to finally have this done.

So after a long conversation with Bill Richards last night (weren't they surprised), my head is again swimming (more than usual) and I couldn't sleep at all.  You see in my old rig, everything was just park it and push a button or two without even thinking.    The inverter was built in, as was the generator.  I could boondock for six weeks with little problem. 

Now I have to think about so much stuff.  This rig is built for plugging in at an RV park.  That's fine, but I want to spend some time in Quartzsite too, without the $50 a night charge.  That means a generator that I have to take out and hook up, an inverter if I want 110 inside the rig, a propane heater (that's another story) and I don't know what else!!  Oh ... and don't forget the solar, or do I really need it?  Yes, that meant a 30 minute call to my mentor Dan Chance too.

I should have been thinking about this months ago, not now when there is no stock left anywhere.  It's Sunday, so nothing is going to get done today.  Besides, I have a memorial to attend at the Elks Lodge,  tuxedo and all!!!  At least I will be able to pick my friend Mark's brain since he has been a fifth wheel aficionado for 20 years!!  

Sooner or later I'm hoping the little light in my head will turn on!!!