{"id":8856,"date":"2019-05-28T02:05:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T02:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=8856"},"modified":"2019-05-28T02:05:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T02:05:31","slug":"i-dropped-the-biggest-tree-i-ever-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=8856","title":{"rendered":"I dropped the biggest tree I ever cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>then I dropped the biggest tree I ever cut. It&#8217;s been a good record breaking day, I took down 6 giant pines and several others which were all within striking distance of where we&#8217;re getting ready to build a sugar house.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>the final boss today: one big fucking Christmas tree<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_9613.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8859\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_9613.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"7754\" height=\"3628\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was apprehensive at first, I had never cut anything this large. Everything went well except on the smaller trees when I was rushing a little more and 2 didn&#8217;t go where they were supposed to. All the big ones did, experience is really nice, not that it removes all surprises. A few years ago I would have been shaking approaching anything half this size with a chainsaw.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>No more plastic wedges for me<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_9552.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8858\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_9552.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">No one was allowed anywhere near the site of the treepocalypse for several hours, the house shook several times. When the carnage was over, Robin got to tame a sea of green to build Fort Awesome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_9565.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8857\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_9565.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>then I dropped the biggest tree I ever cut. It&#8217;s been a good record breaking day, I took down 6 giant pines and several others which were all within striking distance of where we&#8217;re getting ready to build a sugar house. the final boss today: one big fucking Christmas tree I was apprehensive at first, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=8856\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I dropped the biggest tree I ever cut&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-sustainability","category-wood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}