Clearing the Land

Boy oh Boy were there alot of invasive blackberries on the property! We spent 4 days cutting them down and putting into huge piles to haul off. Some canes were 15 feet long!


Next on the list are the trees, but first a blissful moment to enjoy the sunrise across Eagle Harbor that morning- Beautiful! 

Now, its time to get to work removing these four trees.  The excavator was so powerful that it could simply push them over- they were no match for this brut!

The limbs were trimmed off and sent through the chipper to create piles of chips to then be spread on the land where the balckberries once were. This will suppress the berries return and any weeds. Nothing goes to waste on this job!

Then the roots were cut off and sent to the wood recyclers to be ground up into mulch. 

We even coaxed the workers into cutting us some large rounds for future use as patio table tops!  Aren't these beautiful?

Sadly a Lawson Cypress, the one tree that I had hoped to mill into lumber, was so badly diseased with rot in the base that it won't yield much.  Still a good thing that we chose to take it out as this had a high possibility of failure in the near future.

We all worked hard that day and took a moment to sit back and enjoy the beautiful sunset!