I spent most of today playing chainsaws in some quite awkward places. First to be felled was this tree, which I was hoping would fall a little more to the left, but as it would naturally have fallen entirely the opposite way as it was leaning quite significantly away from the camera, I was happy enough. It was growing in quite a precarious place, as whilst it doesn’t show very well in the photo, the place where I cut it (where the fresh cuts can be seen in the top left of the image) is over a vertical drop of several metres into a pond of unknown depth.
I may be able to take one more tree down from the same clump, but all of the others are leaning too far the other way (which is over a field we don’t own, so I’ll have to speak nicely to the farmer before I can deal with those).
Next up were some pieces off a stump left from trees I cut down two years ago.
And finally, the stump of the tree that was left after I had it removed because it was leaning unpleasantly over some outbuildings.
That’s actually a fair-size chunk of wood, and mostly likely to be root as I suspect the line of trees it came from grew into the top of what was originally a banked hedge, so nearer ground level there were lots of places to cut it away.
The plan, inasmuch as there could be said to be one, is to get the digger in there and remove the remaining roots which should make access easier from the area in the background into the veggie plot and apiary.