Baymule’s Journal

[Baymule]

I got a giant dead tree taken down yesterday. It was dead when I bought this place 3 years ago. Two people couldn’t reach around it. There was all kinds of wire sticking out of it, from being used as a living fence post for 3 generations. I cut it all off with bolt cutters.
Limbs bigger around than me have fallen off, rotten. The top twisted off in a storm. It was on a property line fence and on an interior fence between the middle field and back field.

I told Domingo to cut it high so he didn’t tear up his chainsaw. They took it down, a piece at a time.

The stump is a little over 4’ high.

They cleaned up all the mess, loaded it in the dump trailer and dumped it in the back field.

I’ll get on cleaning fence row this winter. I really need the grass in the back field. It’s knee deep.

Awful grown up back fence.

 

[fuzzi]

I got a giant dead tree taken down yesterday. It was dead when I bought this place 3 years ago. Two people couldn’t reach around it. There was all kinds of wire sticking out of it, from being used as a living fence post for 3 generations. I cut it all off with bolt cutters.
Limbs bigger around than me have fallen off, rotten. The top twisted off in a storm. It was on a property line fence and on an interior fence between the middle field and back field.

I told Domingo to cut it high so he didn’t tear up his chainsaw. They took it down, a piece at a time.

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The stump is a little over 4’ high.

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They cleaned up all the mess, loaded it in the dump trailer and dumped it in the back field.

I’ll get on cleaning fence row this winter. I really need the grass in the back field. It’s knee deep.

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Awful grown up back fence.

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I can't even see the fence.

 

[farmerjan]

@Baymule ... you need @SageHill and her living fence dogs to do daily grazing !!!!!!

 

[drstratton]

I got a giant dead tree taken down yesterday. It was dead when I bought this place 3 years ago. Two people couldn’t reach around it. There was all kinds of wire sticking out of it, from being used as a living fence post for 3 generations. I cut it all off with bolt cutters.
Limbs bigger around than me have fallen off, rotten. The top twisted off in a storm. It was on a property line fence and on an interior fence between the middle field and back field.

I told Domingo to cut it high so he didn’t tear up his chainsaw. They took it down, a piece at a time.

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The stump is a little over 4’ high.

View attachment 121154

They cleaned up all the mess, loaded it in the dump trailer and dumped it in the back field.

I’ll get on cleaning fence row this winter. I really need the grass in the back field. It’s knee deep.

View attachment 121155

Awful grown up back fence.

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Nice to have that tree gone. You have some tall grass. Will you put your sheep on it or mow it and bail it?

 

[Baymule]

I can’t use that grass. The fence is old barbed wire, down in places, totally gone on one side. Fence is all grown up in trees, briars, brush and vines. I could put up a hot wire but with no secure outer parameter fence, I wouldn’t trust it to hold sheep or dogs. It’s frustrating to me.

My number one chore this fall/winter is to tear down old chicken coops, one outbuilding and a long roping chute that is full of black berry canes with some vicious thorns. Chute is treated wood posts and 2”x4” horse wire, wire stapled on the inside of course. Then move 40’ shipping containers and space them 40’ wide. Have chicken house trusses to go between them for a roof.

Yesterday I used long handled pruning shears to cut off Jerusalem cherry at the ground. Low growing bush, a member of the nightshade family. It required a lot of bending over, back is sore this morning. I bagged up 2 garbage bags of them. Then I mowed goat weed, will finish that up today. Next year, I will spray them when they sprout back out.