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#homestead

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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

The polar opposite, this tree is in rather poor health. I'll probably just fell it, I don't think there is anything worth saving here, it's likely as rotten inside as it is outside due to its severe wounds.

That bark-less branch stump there is unfortunately typical of how old folk here pruned their trees. It's really bad. The tree cannot heal this and parasites, fungi and whatnot will attack it until it gets too sick.

This one does bear some sick apples and fungus infected leaves. It's not completely dead but clearly dying.

An old apple tree with mostly gnarly, dead branches that would look nice in a horror movie. A thick branch has been cut long ago and not healed, leaving a black surface. The same saw as before is wedged between branches again.
The other side of the same tree. There is a large open wound where a thick branch has broken off and it's filled with black rot. Above that is a half meter long crooked stump that is missing its bark and has many small holes from insects.
#Pruning#Wrong#Apple
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Several of the sheds here are mobile for some reason. Or at least were. This one stands on two large C-beams and has a (bent) drawbar attached to it, as does the smaller beekeeping shed next to it. The grain store also appears to have a drawbar.

No wheels, I guess they were just dragged or log-rolled into place with some big bulldozer or something. Then leveled on bricks/rocks.

I wonder why they were built that way. It's a significant extra effort and expense. Perhaps they were recycled from something else?

Back of a shed. The shed is made of wood with a metal roof and painted yellow. In the middle of this side is a large steel drawbar with a towing ring welded onto it. Someone flipped it up today. There's greenery growing around it.
#Homestead#Shed#Mystery
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

What I've been doing this season in between other jobs: Cut, split and stack firewood. This area was completely cleared out when I started, now it's almost full.

There's a few logs left to do but I need to find some suitable length concrete beams to stack that on, then I'm done.

Should last a winter or hopefully two. The place is very well ventilated and it's drying fast and we still have the old mouse nest infested firewood in the barn to get through first.

My advice: Don't store your firewood inside a barn. Unless you want it full of dragged in nesting material and microturds.

A lot of stacked firewood sitting on old concrete power pylons in a lean-to behind a barn.
#Firewood#Homestead#DIY
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Pee bush root removal.

A real struggle, dug a meter down and it still wouldn't budge. Had to leap into the hole and start chopping roots with an axe and dirt underneath with a pickaxe. Then tear around with the bucket until it finally moved.

I expected to find a pot of gold buried under there, but no luck.

Filled back in and thrown some grass seed on, not that it's needed, but we had some laying around. Will throw some grass mulch on top soon.

A small yellow 1 ton excavator is hovering its bucket on top of a cluster of stumps. Soil has been dug away around the trunk. A pile of the bush branches is behind.
The root cluster, now fully dug out but still not budging. The hole is much bigger, about 1 m deep with soil piled all around.
The bush is now hovering in the air, grabbed triumphantly in the excavators bucket. There's a small pile of chopped or broken off roots on the left. The excavator is keeping a googly eye on the trunk.
Garden scene from yesterday, but instead of the bush trunk cluster there is now a big pile of muddy dirt with excavator tracks from compacting it down. The trunk is laying on the left, a pile of sticks saved from the branches is left of a bench, more roots and branches on the right. An empty storks nest stands behind.
#Gardening#Excavator#MiniExcavator
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Chooochooo, it's the chippertrain!

This works, after some adjustment of the #RedDragon's mouth, 93% of the woodchips end up in the trailer and the tractor can haul both around without having to disconnect anything.

I wanted to let the air out of that thuja pile but couldn't finish as that cloud turned dark and angry. I managed to back the entire train into the big barn just before it started pouring.

Half the pile is gone though. These super gnarly branches worked fine so the rest will be easy. Iseki finally got an actual workout.

A big pile of gnarly thuja branches in the foreground. Behind, a car trailer attached to the back of a woodchipper that is in turn attached to the rear three point linkage of a small blue tractor. On the horizon some rain clouds are forming and the sun has disappeared.
#Tractor#Woodchipper#Trailer
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Hmm, what shall we name this one? #HerrSchröder 2.0?

It's made in Poland, delivered by a nice guy from Panevežys this morning.

Still setting it up, in between juggling several other jobs 🤯

The PTO shaft is too long and needs shortening and it came with Cat2 pins, but I scrounged up some smaller ones and it at least fits the hitch now.

Hope to get some test shredding in today at least.

A red wood chipper that is attached to the three point linkage of a small blue Iseki tractor. It says RT-630 on it and the big steel funnel is folded back for transport. It has an exit chute that can be rotated with a black steel deflector for adjusting the height at which it spits out chips. It also has a very handy trailer hitch on the back of it. A yellow PTO shaft lies on the ground and part of a removed drawbar.
#Smulkintuvas#Shredder#Woodchipper
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Yup, that's rotten.

Tried to save it last year by trimming the rot away but there was little hope with it being over such a large area.

It had a twin trunk someone cut off, leaving a stump. Trees can't heal stumps and then the rot got in.

So now it's a difficult to fell problem. And for some reason we need to apply for a permit first, I guess because some other people were mindlessly cutting trees.

At least there's already a small birch next to it, which I expect will flourish once this one gets out of its light.

A big, old birch. The bark is missing from a large area and it has been painted with limewash to protect it. A knife is stuck in about 10 cm deep and went in without resistance, meaning the rot is going deep and there's no saving this tree. It's along a road for bonus excitement.
#Tree#Birch#Rot
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