Are you feeling chipper?

If I had to give credit for the one piece of machinery which allowed us to recycle our leaves and branches while providing some good mulch or carbon matter for the composter. That is the Sears shredder chipper. So I was tickled when our old shsredder ended up at Ed & Tiff's. Their yard can easily produce as much organic matter as the Ancestral home.

This time, however, it was more of a rescue operation. The neighbor was trimming trees and left a huge branch on Ed & Tiff's patio, essentially blocking their patio doors.

I'm sure that Ed could see how much work it would be to cut and bundle all the pieces of this huge branch but Mom and I assured him that it would go almost as fast as one could put the branches in a row.

With Mom on one side of the huge branch and Lisa on the other they were keeping Edward very busyl
Edward was moving the branches from the patio out to the middle of the lawn where we had set up the shredder. It seems like this makes more work but actually it is much safer as the shredder is unpredictable.

Steven and I manned the shredder. It has two openings - the front for branches over 1/2 inch in diabeter and the othe for everything smaller. Unfortunately, the blade for the front chipper is badly in need of sharpening, so we put most of the branch & leaves in the shredder.

Now if I lived a little closer to E & J,,,