The last of the trees gone!!!!!!

WOOOOOO HOOOOOOO finally the last of the trees have been chopped down. We had a large gumtree which had been forced to grow on an unsafe angle due to all the other trees I've chopped down already. This tree had grown towards the the best light and that meant it was on quite an angle leaning over the house. All the branches were also growing out one side of the tree meaning all the weight was pulling the tree towards the house as well. So no its been chopped down. We also had another large gum tree chopped down, it was within 1 metre of anothert huge gum tree so was competing for space. And lastly we had all the dead wood/branches  chopped off another huge gum tree hanging over the choock pen.

See leaning towards house. Not safe!

On the way down, looks small but it's a big tree!

And it's down! will leave the trunk as it is.

So now the big clean up.  Mulch all the folliage first, then
chainsaw up all the bigger stuff, then split it and finally
stack it up behind shed.

I go the arborist just to get everything down onto the ground. It is my job to now clean up. Stage one of the clean up is to cut off all the folliage. stack it with the thick ends all facing out. (this makes it easy to grab and mulch.  No I can really test out this mulcher. This pile was only half of what needed to be mulched.  In the past I would have burnt all the folliage but this time I created wonderful mulch.  

branches stacked up ready to get mulched!

No i had no idea how long it would take to mulch all the branches but I had resigned myself to it taking a day.  How happy i was to have it all done in two and a half hours. The mulcher has exceeded all my expectations. it's quick, easy and creates a wonderful product, so much better than burning it. Means all that carbon and goodness is returned to the soil/garden. The video below shows the mulcher in action, chewing through and spitting out all that mulch.

And the pile of mulch created!!!