Clearing the Vines

 

This week's update is all about clearing out the vines over part of the washout on the property. The above picture is a before. I was hoping to clear the vines in a manner that would allow me to fashion some wreaths for a friend, but due to the thickness of the vines and the intermingling of a thorny vine I had to cut the vines into roughly 3 foot sections to remove them.

During the clearing I found what looks like a kids baking toy set.

I don't know what this blue thing is, but it looks like a tarp.

Then there was the comedy find ... a Wheel barrow. There is also what looks like part of a roof and some tires down there too.

I was able to clear the vines away from the two oak trees, so hopefully they will stop having branches ripped off them from the vines and wind.

It doesn't look like much but that is the finished clearing. The reason it doesn't look like much is because I just couldn't safely get to the branch with the vines still on it, but hopefully I did cut all the vines so that they will die and fall off.

 

Removing the Old Fence

 Removing the old fence is a very large project. Not only is there a lot of fence that needs to come down, but some sections have been buried in the ground and have a tremendous amount of over growth needing to be cleared off of it.

Big thanks to Mom and helping me take down about half of the front yard. The other half of the fence in the front yard is chain link and I am waiting to see what and how my neighbor refences between us before making a decision on that section. I left the fence posts in place as a guide for when I refence that section.

The back yard was essentially cut in half by the fence line that was put up. This fence line was also buried about 4 to 6 inches either by accident or design. Right now I am cutting it flush with the ground just so I can gain access to beyond it.

The only section I have completely removed:

Right next to the above section I have started clearing out on the house/yard side so that removing the fence can happen:

While Clearing the above section I found another random piece of fence; leading off into the woods this time. The red line indicating the direction of the fence line I was working on and the blue line the newly found fence line.

There was also a piece that was jutting into the yard making mowing a pain that I have removed.

With any luck I will have this cleared out before the end of the year.

Until next time...