Chipping is done for this year. I've got a big pile of about two trailers full below the house. That should be enough for the rest of this summer and for bedding down the gardens for the winter.
Zac has his backhoe on now. Mic helped me take the chipper off and get the backhoe in place. We had to jack up the bucket to get the forks down to backup the tractor so they slid into place. All that to say that it would be an impossible task to do alone but it went off easily with two.
I cleaned up some ditches along the way as I drove Zac to the main house. Last year I had dug out the garden area and the parking area. I went back at the parking area and with renewed confidence and experience I dug out a 50 foot wide swath at the back of the parking area up to 30 feet deep and 20 feet high. This only took me about 4 hours. Last year it would have taken me 16+. The dirt is still there in big piles, waiting to be dumped over the side as I extend the flat areas below the house.
Our massive cedar hedge needed trimming. The hedge is on the side of a hill. I was able to get some done from the ground on the high side but I can't reach the top from the low side. Zac took a rest providing bucket support and I was finally able to reach the top. The hedge is now about two feet shorter and we can see the lake again.
I've started clearing below the hedge. The plan is to dig back to the hedge, build a retaining wall about 16 feet out, backfill with earth and then plant fruit trees. I have a bunch of poplars that I need to bring down and the plan is to use them as the wall. I will need about 100 feet of wall, about 4 feet high so that will be a lot of trees. I plan on bringing the sawmill and cutting two sides of the logs for the wall.
Zac has his backhoe on now. Mic helped me take the chipper off and get the backhoe in place. We had to jack up the bucket to get the forks down to backup the tractor so they slid into place. All that to say that it would be an impossible task to do alone but it went off easily with two.
I cleaned up some ditches along the way as I drove Zac to the main house. Last year I had dug out the garden area and the parking area. I went back at the parking area and with renewed confidence and experience I dug out a 50 foot wide swath at the back of the parking area up to 30 feet deep and 20 feet high. This only took me about 4 hours. Last year it would have taken me 16+. The dirt is still there in big piles, waiting to be dumped over the side as I extend the flat areas below the house.
Our massive cedar hedge needed trimming. The hedge is on the side of a hill. I was able to get some done from the ground on the high side but I can't reach the top from the low side. Zac took a rest providing bucket support and I was finally able to reach the top. The hedge is now about two feet shorter and we can see the lake again.
I've started clearing below the hedge. The plan is to dig back to the hedge, build a retaining wall about 16 feet out, backfill with earth and then plant fruit trees. I have a bunch of poplars that I need to bring down and the plan is to use them as the wall. I will need about 100 feet of wall, about 4 feet high so that will be a lot of trees. I plan on bringing the sawmill and cutting two sides of the logs for the wall.
RSS Feed
