We’ve had a task to do for some time now: take care of the sheep field, tackle brambles etc which were getting out of control.
A promise had been made to the landowners that we’d get it sorted out, unfortunately due to one thing and another the date for doing this kept slipping.
It was all arranged for a weekend that we’d hire some heavy machinery to help achieve this, however the hire company let us down at the 11th hour.
Every cloud has a silver lining – because they let us down so badly (and had an earful from an irate farm member who wasted their entire day waiting for it to be delivered), we got a massive reduction in the fee.
Finally the beast arrives on site
Even with a hand tractor with power scythe attachment it was very hard work, mainly because the brambles had got so high that although we could slice away at the base of them the tops would fall over onto you.
The beast strikes back
As we’d got this thing on site for the whole weekend we might as well use it!
An area that had long been neglected was the area at the bottom of farm where the raspberries were. At some point in the past the farm had perhaps been optimistic about the number of raspberry canes that it could maintain and harvest.
So we wrangled the beast into this area too.
