We’re starting to get a hang of this video thing. It takes a while to put all the footage together, but hopefully it better illustrates what we’re up to here on the farm. The little drone certainly helps with perspective!

Thanks to the wonders of the internet, we were able to scare ourselves shitless with all the terrifying mishaps that can occur with felling trees. For every “how to” video watched, there were two “chainsaw fail” videos also scrutinised. Chainsaws are frighteningly dangerous on their own, doubly so when felling multi-ton trees. Technique is only useful so long as you’re not dead.

Spoiler alert: No one died. So, yay! Enjoy.

Check out part two of our stump pulling project! Here we deal with the aftermath and mess of pulling out the stumps; getting an inferno going, chainsawing and splitting a heck ton of firewood, back-filling the giant craters, and smoothing over the ground with a good raking and a scatter of grass seed. Were the stumps ever there? In short order, no one will know! This was fun.

We’ve made a video of a recent undertaking on the homestead: Removing a row of a dozen huge cypress stumps.

They were blocking access to our cottage for our upcoming renovations (exciting first steps). Gruelling but satisfying work!