Another hot saturday morning in May, this time clearing up some trees felled quickly before the diggers move in to quarry this area

have to clear up as much of these birch and sycamore as possible before bulldozed away the next day

clearing up the trunks and then dragging out with the 'mog

articulation no problem

one of the last being dragged out

job done, by about lunchtime.

next weekend, and clearing up from the silage pit side

notice how the diggers have now cleared everything off the gravel deposits behind

dead beech to remove from a hedgerow

Extracting a dead elm from the same hedgerow, using the crane to avoid dropping them on the road

up she comes, nice and vertical and safe

same again

and up and out

another weekend, and a new 'mog joins the workparty

removing several of those larch (no use to us) and a few sycamore and cherry, which we will find a use for...

fair size sycamore dropped out of the hedgerow

Unimog does some "extracting" work

tree surgeons also on the job climb a tree and fix a towing line to the top...

.. but also use it for a rapid descent...

and this load (the green'ish ones) of sycamore, and cherry is what we salvaged that day (about 8 tonnes)

next weekend, and we've been asked to remove this snarled standing dead elm (centre of picture)

wedge out at bottom, good tug with the 'mog, and its down and out

bit of ploughing along the way

cut to length, crane'd into the 'mog, and another good load ready to go

stock pile piling up

the hill we were working on two weeks ago has now been removed by diggers excavating the gravel

two weeks ago we parked on the hill at the base of those trees...

logging up a bit of fresh sycamore for splitting

still plenty left though...