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#cleanup

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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Goat pen #2 cleanup will have to wait until next year.

If you're wondering why a passionate mowing hater like me bought a giant lawnmower, this is what happens if you do not mow. Or get rid of your goats, although I think at this point you'd need at least a horse wearing body armor or maybe a herd of giraffes in chainmail trousers.

Once cleared, I can think about what to put here. For some reason planning it on a map does not work very well and I can think better when I see it cleared.

We still need to find a good spot for a sunken greenhouse, root cellar and chicken coop, although this area will probably be berry bushes and orchard.

#Homestead#Cleanup#Overgrown
Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Also got rid of another section of the goat fence.

The half fallen posts pulled out easily by hand, but the bottom of the fence was stuck in 20 cm dirt and roots. I managed to free a long section intact, the rest got damaged by hydraulic forces.

Got the two concrete beams there loosened and ready for dragging out, too.

Slowly the garden is becoming less of a mess. Those nice junipers are staying, of course. The rose-hip that is growing _inside_ of them probably not. Maybe I can relocate it intact, somewhere along another fence.

Is this what people call landscaping?

#Homestead#Cleanup#Fence
Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Bush be gone.

This was the old mans pee bush. It was right outside the door and so he would just walk out to do his business there. Probably why it grew so big. We have other plans for that area and also it was reaching for the powerline.

A lot of the pruning I have to do is around that power line. Luckily the last span of it is insulated wire or it would already be sparking.

And worst of all, it was blocking the view to the stork nest. Which, if you look closely, has some grass growing in it now.

#Bush#Cut#Homestead
Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Chooochooo, it's the chippertrain!

This works, after some adjustment of the #RedDragon's mouth, 93% of the woodchips end up in the trailer and the tractor can haul both around without having to disconnect anything.

I wanted to let the air out of that thuja pile but couldn't finish as that cloud turned dark and angry. I managed to back the entire train into the big barn just before it started pouring.

Half the pile is gone though. These super gnarly branches worked fine so the rest will be easy. Iseki finally got an actual workout.

#Tractor#Woodchipper#Trailer
Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Finished separating the overgrown thuja from the fence. Underneath, an old goat shelter with a steel roof.

Separated it for recycling. The roof is super heavy, I'll have to drag it onto the tractor trailer and haul it off someplace.

I've got a few of these big steel sheets now, wonder what to make from those.

There was a deer antler in it, perhaps a lost chew toy for the dog? Definitely deer and not goat, before you ask :P

#Homestead#Cleanup
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

More orchard cleanup, brought on by the recent autumn weather reminder.

This apple tree was rather dead, probably helped by my nemesis, Virginia (creeper).

Time to make room for new trees. I gave it a pat and a little goodbye and went to work.

It's a pile of branches and some sauna wood to dry now. The apple tree was hollow and rotten inside, maybe Tim Cook was managing it.

Tearing the creeper tendrils off was sweaty work. I just spread them out, will put the mulching plug in the mower and drive over it a few times, I think.

But tea break first 😅

#Orchard#Homestead#Tree
Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Clearing away some thorny bushes from goat pen #1.

Not sure what they are, PlantID app says blackthorn but it doesn't really match when I look up pictures of that. No berries, but then most berries didn't make it this year due to the late frost.

I call them thorny fuckers. Gotta be careful, wear goggles, gloves and long sleeves. Then get stung in the face by nettles that grew between the thorny fuckers 🤕

Too big for the brush cutter and annoying to cut with a chainsaw. Then I have to get the little stumps out, too.

#Homestead#Cleanup#Gardening
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Franz Graf

3/.) And ... my #Cleanup bag also found some good use again. We collected some wrappers, parts of broken equipment,a golf tee(!) and some other plastics.

As usual, we do not pick up tissues.

Always leaving places cleaner as we found them.

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Working half and quarter days on the homestead, so I just do tidying up, not worth dragging out a lot of stuff and work on a project.

But there's a lot of tidying to do. Could spend months just moving things from one place to another, sometimes repeatedly. But slow and steadily, the place actually gets tidier.

Mostly because I'm moving a lot of the junk behind the big barn where it's not so obvious, but also because like things get piled together instead of being in 12 different places.

#Homestead#Cleanup
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