The Missus really does care

Over the weekend was digging, jacking and winching out a 60cm dia tree stump that’s over the back fence and in a drainage reserve that I am going to utilise. Had the Tirfor type winch anchored off another tree with a tree protector and two ten metre winch straps, I think they're rated at 4 tonne (swl). I have the winch cable tripled with two winch blocks. Start winching... everything is very taught and the stump is moving and ya could hear the roots breaking underground... beauty I thought. Every now and then I would stop winching and check... everything is now very very taught and the stump is moving very slowly, then BANG, the winch moves forward and everything is slack...o-bleepI thought something broke. Before I knew-it the Misuses was there to see what had happened and if I was alright (she heard the bang inside the house and above the TV). So she really does care.

One of the winch straps broke about 60cm from one of its end loops. I'd connected it to the tree protector with a stout piece of pick handle timber, and it was this that made the bang as it hit another fence in the opposite direction from me.

I'll borrow a mate's Tirfor for next weekend and have two winches on the stump... I'll win this time.