Working the land
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Using the winch!!
James has fitted a winch to the front of Ally the gator with the help of a fabulous neighbour!! He decided to use it for hauling in some of the logs cut at the bottom of the hill by pipe stream and along the woodland edge of the field!! Here is gator, winch and trailer…
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More bramble destruction to start the new year
I have been hedge cuttering my way round the brambles in new orchard field and have now completed the first chop of the brambles in what will be our orchard….. And it’s HUGE!!!! We decided I must have cut about ten time a the size of our home garden in bramble patch!!! Before….. A bit…
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Escaping sheep….
The second sheep related mayhem….. I was stood surveying the brambles left to hack up and something caught my eye from the corner near where we buried Polly… A white fluffy something, standing staring back at me chewing happily away on a mouthful of contraband grass!!! Damn sheep have made it the through the gap…
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Stuck sheep
Our field tenants, the sheep…. Mmmmm they have decided they can start to cause mayhem on the weekends we are there….. First incident….. Stuck in the brambles, so armed with gloves and secateurs James I trooped across the field to rescue it! as it seemed to have been in the brambles for a while given…
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More wood stocks
We have continued to process the wood that we have been cutting down….. The logs have been cut and chopped and stacked!!! And we have rearranged the barn a smidge to make more room to stack wood! We have been sorting the wood to be sawn and the wood to be chopped…. And even chipping…
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More bramble destruction!
Whilst James played with the beast!!! I hacked down some more chunks of the bramble patches along the pipe stream bank and into the woodland!!! Got a big chunk done too not that it shows from the top of the hill, because it went down the side and around the back of the colossal patch…
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Another new arrival!!
We had a fantastic delivery last weekend on the smallholding!!!! James’ parents bought him an early birthday pressie!!! Introducing the BEAST!!! It is an amazing field and brush mower that is going to make maintaining the field sooooo much easier!!!! It weighs a tonne and has literally eaten it’s way across the field that will…
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Hedge restoration
In the big field where we have some resident sheep belonging to our land tenant there are large section of hedgerow which are solely ferns no trees left…. Shelter belt diminished and some areas look like failed laying of the previous trees….. We managed to get some free hedgerow trees around 30…. Holly, hawthorn, blackthorn,…
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More wood collections
James has cut down a goat willow!! Here it is mid stream, and now here it isn’t, with another puppy photo bomb!!! We have loaded all the logs into Ally the gator…. And popped them in the barn ready for splitting and stacking!! All the branches are piled high in the fields, I think either…
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Pond!!!
We have found a site for our pond…. Initially a wildlife pond we think… Eventually maybe some ducks for it….. Dig faster James it’s starting to fill up!!! We’ll line it during a dry spell… And we need to make sure it has a sturdy bottom banking so…..