I went down to Mike's house on Saturday to play supervisor with him. Turns out he had a friend of the family and 3 day laborers building a fence in his back yard. We felt kind of bad watching 4 guys sweat it out all day so we decided to start a project of our own. Mike's been sizing up these juniper bushes in his front yard from they day he bought the house. I wouldn't say these were pre-historic junipers, but the roots were about as think as my fist in some areas. Now just because we witnessed the hard manual labor in the back yard did not mean that we wanted to repeat that in the front yard.
We cruise on down to the hardware store and Safeway. The Shopping list looked like this:
- 6 ft. of 5/8 thick steel chain (1800 lb working load) + Industrial Hooks
- 8 hamburger patties + Buns
- Lettuce, Tomato, Onion, Mayo
- 2 bags of Lays BBQ chips
- 12 pack Corona w/ 2 limes
We get back to Mikes and I back the Tacoma close to the lawn. Mike wraps the chain around the first bush and throws the tow strap around my hitch....bu-ya, out pops the juniper like jello shot at a frat party. The truck only grunted once the whole time but the 4 wheel drive took care of that. I have to say, that was some of the easiest yard work I have ever done. Thanks Toyota.
After turning Mikes front yard into Alabama we cooked the fence builders burgers and drank beers. At least we didn't feel as guilty about watching them build the fence.
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