Sometimes You Just Have To Pull Some Stumps - WizStead Post #7
If a homestead sits empty for about 20 years,
it gets a bit overgrown with scrub brush and multiflora rose (an invasive weed).
This was trimmed last year.
NOTE: how it just grew more shoots.
This has got to go...
You don't have to have a tractor.
I used my Ford 4x4 and a chain...
That's what we call a slip knot around here.
It will tighten up on the stump as tension is applied...
TADA!!!
Look how long those roots are!
Just another angle of the end result...
Brutus my 8 year old Boxer puppy helped me...
This lil girl is Trixie.
She used to be an inside dog,
but with all the mud and burrs
she has magically turned into an outside farm dog.
2 more stumps I pulled from the front yard this time.
Note how one broke off all the roots.
::shrug::
A chainsaw a day...
...helps you fight back the scrub brush
I've been running 1 tank of gas mix through the chainsaw a day.
- So far
- I got the pretty big tree down that was growing right up beside the grain bin.
- I can get all the way around the garage now.
- Scrub trees cut from around the driveway.
- Almost have the brush pile moved from in front of the garage out to the garden so I can burn it there and get the wood ash in the soil...
- Fence row cleaned out beside the house.
- I got 2 tomato cages loose from where the flowering quince had grown into them in the front yard.
- Always something to do on a homestead...
Coming soon
Yesterday my rose fountain grass came in.
Today I got my 10 AspraBest Asparagus.
- Strawberries with grow bags are on the way.
- Guess what I'll be doing Friday on my Holiday?
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