The last time I was up on the roof cleaning out the gutters, I had noted that over the last year, there was a wattle tree that had started to grow further out over the corner of our house. When we first moved in, it was quite overgrown, and this wattle actually had some heavy branches over the roof... but we did have someone in to remove it so that it wouldn't damage the house if they snapped, or even in heavy wind.

Which brings me back to the last time when I was up on the roof a couple of months ago, and I had noticed that the wattle had grown back... not heavily, but it was now definitely over the roof again.

... and I didn't have a saw on me at that time... and so I noted it, and promptly forgot about it!

Which brings me to the other week... when the winds were quite strong in our part of Australia combined with heavy rain... which meant that the wattle branches were heavy enough to be dragging all over the tiles and gutter. On the inside, you could hear it scraping around... and that reminded me that I had to hop up onto the roof to trim it back again. Of course, that would have to wait until the weather was fine again... I have no desire to be up on the roof when it is wet and slippery!

I really should have thought a bit further ahead and brought up a battery saw as well... The handsaw that I have is really quite good, but it does limit how far I can safely reach as well as limited the angles that I can cut at. With a reticulated battery saw, I don't have to move my arm... and I can just let the machine do the work... which does make life a lot easier!

Still... I was able to remove enough branches to get the main part off the tiles and gutter, and the rest I will be doing from the safety of the ground. Either with the reticulated battery saw on a ladder... or with the mini-chainsaw on a stick that I have. Either way, it is safer to do it from solid ground rather than trying to lean out too far from the roof! It is on the list of my ever growing list of things to do!

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