Taking down overgrown trees this afternoon

[vercetti2021]

Noticeably I can't lift any heavy stumps. Obviously hormones are effectively working and is completely changing my body.

Question. For those who do yard work and get scratched up arms and hands. How do you treat them? Alcohol? Peroxide?

Also we plan on replacing these cedar trees with shrubs. I wouldn't have cut them down otherwise. But they were beginning to damage our roof

[I_UndergroundPanther]

1. Hormones will do that

[vercetti2021]

14. I'm so excited

They are doing their job! Soon I'll be more feminine

[I_UndergroundPanther]

21. I remember

When I started to grow my beard I was so excitedand happy, now it's a great goatee. I even dye it sometimes to match my mowhawk..

I was so blown away at how my body was changing with the testosterone. Getting top surgery was the most amazing change.

I feel really comfortable with my body now.

I don't take testosterone nowadays because I'm diabetic and the hormones made my sugar levels too high.

My body makes it's own testosterone or something because my goatee is growing longer and thicker all by itself.

[Lochloosa]

2. Gloves and long sleeve shirts help.

Witch hazel for insect bites. Cuts. Scratches. Just wash them and check on healing process.

[vercetti2021]

15. Yeah

I wish I known that before I got deep into it

[flying_wahini]

3. Not alcohol, use H2O2, especially for puncture type wounds.

Icthamol ointment for splinters/thorns left behind.

Save that cedar! Good for the yard. Mulch it up if you can.

[vercetti2021]

16. I will

Saving the thicker logs. We'll try to mulch it

[Botany]

4. Stuff

Stumps ... hire a tree company w/a stump grinder or a bobcat to haul them away ... if not too
big just cut them off at ground level with a chain saw .... BTW the grindings from a stump grinder
can be used in replanting but mix it with some good top soil and or compost. The grindings alone
will dry out fast and will also tie up nitrogen.

Scratches on arms and hands .... take a shower and them wash real good ... if are worried about an
infection just a little neosporin on any of the cuts. Leaving them uncovered helps in the healing.
Advil for the pain.

When you replant USE NATIVE PLANTS .... If you can't keep 'em watered wait until fall. If close enough
to the house and you get enough rainfall think about getting a rain barrel and then run a soaker hose
around the new shrubs.

Work in some good compost and some Espoma plant tone in the area you going to replant.

You will probably see some mushrooms coming up in the area where the cedar trees were. They are good
and are living on the roots of the old trees.

[cayugafalls]

7. this and then some

Also, if there is a lot of sawdust even adding soil will not do too much to help as the nutrient balance will be way off for quite some time and result in a very high carbon to nitrogen level.

Another thing about removing a tree and stump grinding is, if planting over that area, the stump and roots should really be removed as any planting over top will not have good enough penetration to grow properly, of course this is all dependent on size of tree and stump.

Removing the stump and root ball provides the best opportunity for better growth of any plantings.

You should also let the ground rest for a while if you can't remove all the roots in order to give the remaining root system time to begin breaking down.

[vercetti2021]

18. Right

But yeah we are gonna plant hedges on the spots. The stumps are gonna remain as decor!

[Botany]

20. Were the cedar trees alive when you cut them down?

Then in all likelihood they will stump sprout and grow back.

[mopinko]

22. i was ready to suggest plugging them for mushrooms til you said they were cedars.

not much grows on cedar.
otherwise it's a great way to get rid of a stump. the right shrooms will fruit for decades.

[markie]

5. same here

except I'm saving all the cedar and cutting the unhealthy spruces... trying to keep ahead; we lose a few trees in every heavy wind

scratches and wounds... I make a green salve that I use.... comfrey and hemp infused olive oil, my beeswax and good essential oils... after washing, I often will use peroxide before the salve

[vercetti2021]

10. That works?

I wish I had hemp oil. I got tea tree oil.

[MiHale]

6. Unreal...

Just got done with my last 2 stumps...gone! It’s close to the end of a 3 year project clearing the back of my property. Lots of trees field grass...ugh.

[vercetti2021]

12. Lot of overgrowth?

These were all in a side yard. Like some were growing into the roof almost and causing a lot of damage

[Niagara]

8. Use regular soap and water on your scratched up arms and hands

to keep them clean and to keep them from getting infected.


I personally like to dab Neosporin on after washing my cuts and scrapes, but some people can have allergies to that ointment.

[vercetti2021]

13. Can do!

I got neosporin

[elleng]

9. Wash thoroughly (soap/water,)

and follow up with triple-antibiotic cream/ointment.

[vercetti2021]

11. This is what I'm following

I don't have a lot of what others suggested. But I got neosporin so I'll use it

[elleng]

17. GOOD, it's the best.

[vercetti2021]

19. I've been cleaned up for a while

I took my cousin a 12 pack of michelob ultra and small bottle of Fireball whiskey for helping. He wouldn't take money, but he won't turn down the beer