Pleased with myself today.

[Trev B]

I'm looking for a pat on the back. I've had a working day in the garden/scrub, and on telling Mrs B what I had achieved the comment was - "about time you did that instead of running around up there with the camera".
I decided this morning to flail half a acre of gorse, bramble, bracken etc in the lower part of the wood - for no other reason than when I took the picture of the Greenfinch I tripped and went head first into a gorse bush. Below is the fruits of my labour. You can see one of my hides to the left of the picture behind a small Silver Brich tree
903 Woodland Clearing 9030320 by Trev Bartlett MBE, on Flickr

This area known as the scrub. I flailed three years ago, quite productive now for small birds - Dartfords, Stonechat etc. and butterflies.
904 - The Scrub 9040320 by Trev Bartlett MBE, on Flickr

Not content in flailing the wood, I started to log up this Sweet Chestnut tree that came down a month or so ago in the storms. - got to think of next winters log supply!
905 - Tree Down 9050320 by Trev Bartlett MBE, on Flickr

They will dry out nicely here, ready to be moved to the log shed later
906 - Logs 9060320 by Trev Bartlett MBE, on Flickr

[ST-EOS]

Well done Trev

[Farider]

Good work Trev, that’s quite some amount of ground that you have there.

Ian

[leeperry]

You put my garden work to shame, keep up the good work

[colin C]

You put me to shame!

All I have managed on this first day of lockdown is power wash to patio.

[Daisy M]

Lot of hard work carried out Trev, well done you. Pity we are so far apart, I would have loved doing that & you could have paid me in wood.

[Colin W]

Great work Trev!

Feel free to come and do our garden

[Bill53]

You have been busy Trev, well done and hope you reward yourself appropriately.

Bill.

[Trev B]

You put me to shame!

All I have managed on this first day of lockdown is power wash to patio.

Now come on Colin, I'm sure Mrs C like Mrs B will have no end of jobs up their sleeves that we will be expected to undertake.

[Trev B]

Thanks everyone, I got a load of project in my head that I may put into practice both in the woodland and scrub. The problem is someone else has got a load of projects in her head that I will be expected to do.

[Hereford_EOS]

Well done Trev.

[John Liddle]

Good work Trev - if there is a list, just remember never to actually finish it - if you do, the next list appears!

BTW, what tractor do you have? We have a couple of grey Fergies, but they would not be powerful enough to run much of a flail.

[Trev B]

Thanks Stephen

Good work Trev - if there is a list, just remember never to actually finish it - if you do, the next list appears!

BTW, what tractor do you have? We have a couple of grey Fergies, but they would not be powerful enough to run much of a flail.

John, I don't use the tractor, bit awkward in and around the trees, plus churns everything up to much. I got a Jansen AT120 15HP Flail that I tow behind the ATV (Quad Bike) for jobs like this, no complaints with it does the job a treat as you can see.

Friend of mine who is now off work for the foreseeable future got a 1.8 ton JCB Excavator which I'm thinking of buying , although not mentioned it to Mrs B yet, need to pick the right time.. With the idea of digging another pond, this would keep me happy for hours up there, be like a child with a new toy now I'm confined to barracks.

[tigerburnie]

I quite envy you that land, looks full of promise.

[tesarver]

Good to stay busy Trev

Tom