I posted earlier in the week that the JCB featured quite heavily on Saturday, well another task that I asked Liam to perform was removing the Silver Birch trunk.
It was a very graceful ‘timber’ in the end as the roots slowly ripped their slow paths through the grass and it was over an out.
The hole it left was not necessarily deep, but quite wide. I did wonder if it would have made less of a mess to cut it, but this took the JCB less than a minute. I dread to think how many hours would have been required to take it down in the latter way.
Next the JCB effortlessly picked it up and added it to our growing ‘pile’ of stuff. I now need to get my father-in-law over with his chainsaw to make some more wood for the fires!
So, the view to the bottom paddock, which is planned to become our garden, is slowly being more revealed.
Tags: Bottom Paddock, Chainsaw, Garden Design and Improvements, JCB, Liam Lambert, Weeping Silver Birch
Categories: Garden Improvements, Living the Country Life, Posts with Photos
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