Not again!!!!!!!

Yep, again.

Big wind = more enormous tree limbs falling on our fence, and on other trees.

At least this time they missed the chicken coop and the new gate. At least 3 huge limbs fell, judging from these trees (L) - and there's still one hanging there waiting to fall. There used to be a nice shady native tree under all that mess that the chickens liked to sit under (R).

So it's time to call our friend with the chainsaw as those branches are too heavy to lift, let alone move. Really, I am very tempted to get all these trees pulled down and replaced with something else!

Heaven help any rabbits that decide to wander in - they will be doggie dinner!!

Over on the other side of the garden there's more evidence of the wind - although hard to see in the photo - I found small branches from the gum trees (L of pic) embedded in the fruit cage fence (r of pic). Now THAT's windy!

There were also a few wattles down on the driveway that I had to move so Jerry could get to work. Relatively small ones - one (about 7 ft tall) was completely uprooted.

Tackling Tricky Trees

Apart from the tree that dropped a limb on Jerry's nearly finished chicken coop, we had a few other trees causing us problems. So this weekend we took care of them...with a little help form a man with a chainsaw!

Tree number 1 was a 7/8 dead gum tree near the house (seen in the pic on the left). Loads of deadwood and dead leaves it would have burned a treat in a fire...so down it came. Next year's firewood!

Next to go was a large tree that was also 1/2 dead and riddled with borers. It was amazing to see all those perfect holes in the trunk and branches. This has also cleared a larger open space to plant more fruit trees... and left a nice stump for sitting on :)

As the weather was favourable (cold, damp, low wind) Jerry spent the next 2 days burning off the small dead wood and branches from this tree. Each night the rain would come and do a great job of damping down for us. We have also saved a few long straight branches to use in the coop.