We spent a long weekend up on our Marker Rasen site to clear some of the ground under the trees and prepare a woodland walk. There were several piles of brush that had to be shredded so after Nick and Val turned up on site with the hired shredder in tow we immediately got on with the job.
Dave & Lucie joined us later and before long we had worked our way through Beech, Holly and Hawthorne brush. It took virtually all day but we finished just after 4pm absolutely knackered but very satisfied.
The Beech tree was close to other houses so we paid for a professional to fell the tree and we were left with a very large trunk to cut up. Nick damaged his chain saw because running around inside the tree was a load of barbed wire.
We hope to have enough wood for our log burner for several years to come.
It wasn’t all hard work and we spent the evenings sitting outside drinking and relaxing.
Dave and Lucie let a barbecue on one evening and the weather was unbelievably good. As we approached the longest day we could sit outside until well after 9pm – past Dave’s bedtime.
By the end of the four days we had cleared all of what we had planned and it had opened our plots considerably. There’s still more work to be done amongst the trees but we will leave that for when the birds have finished nesting and the building is nearer completion.
