Expanding the Garden

The far end of the vegetable garden was less productive because of shade. So I talked my neighbor Joel into helping me remove enough trees to solve this problem and also increase the total size of the garden by more than one third. Joel kept much of the wood in trade - good saw logs, but given the very low price paid these days, the harvest will likely be more valuable as firewood.

The skid-steer made falling very safe - Joel cut and his dad Ray pushed with the machine right where we wanted the tree to fall.



Ray waits patiently for Joel and I to limb up the downed tree:



The skid_steer made quick work of moving the logs, stacking the brush and also smoothing out the disturbed area.



The old man got quite a workout!