I Hate Green Briars!

[CntryBoy777]

Have ya ever had so much Fun reducing those to Ashes??.......looks like BJ was looking at his Beautiful truck again.....

 

[Bruce]

I had @CntryBoy777 show me greenbriar. I can see why you are not enamored of them, spikey viney things that they are.

 

[Baymule]

Back to hacking green briars today and picking up pieces of dead trees. We made 4 loads to the burn pile. We are tired.

We cut a couple of young elm trees, I laid them aside so the sheep could enjoy them. Carson decided to snack on them too.

I rolled up big balls of briars, thought about making a green briar snowman, but decided to burn the hateful things.

In the background behind me, you can see the portable building. On the other side is the extended roof that is the sheep barn.

We still have more to do, but have made major inroads. BJ picked out the trees he wants to keep, the rest will come down.

We’ll finish cleaning up this patch and get the trees cut. If I stand in the same spot and turn around, I see more mess. This is next to the end of the house, would like to get this cleaned up as well. Eventually I want to build a gazebo, BBQ screened hut and a playhouse for the grands. You can see the end of the house.

There are some nice trees in here that we want to keep. We want to plant redbuds and dogwoods too. Look at this huge grape vine.

Standing at the corner of the house, looking at that patch, notice the deep sand. @Bruce we have to put the Kawasaki mule in 4WD to get through it.

The blue tarp is over the Sheep hay bale. If I ever get a dog house built onto the sheep barn, we’ll take away this fence that connects the back yard to the sheep barn. Paris will never give up her back yard unless she has her own place in the barn. She doesn’t share very well. It works for now and maybe by next summer we can start on sprucing this patch up.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Y'all have come a loong way, in the short time ya have had it....and ya ain't sitting on your keester, just waiting for it to disappear....and the many stories and laughs it "bloomed" into.....

 

[Bruce]

Maybe you should dig a big pond, then you can charge people to come to the beach!

 

[CntryBoy777]

When the tropical moisture comes around.....the water can add up quickly....so, sand is much better for it to filter down much quicker than the clay......could fill a small pond rather quickly, but "holding" the water becomes difficult....and if ya have the water for long....the skeeters will "tote ya off"....

 

[Baymule]

@CntryBoy777 you will have your own green briar wars. Sharpen up your machete and build a burn pile. For you, work in the winter. For us, it is spring and fall. We work in the summer from daylight to maybe 11 AM to 12 or 1 PM. Then we are wasted the rest of the day. We worked today until 2 PM and we're tired and sore, but it sure is a good feeling to see another clearing.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Yeh @Baymule we sure do have our own....
.....it runs up the trees and is as long as the trees are tall.....

 

[Bruce]

And they are TALL and BIG, some of those Florida trees at @CntryBoy777 and @B&B Happy goats must be 4' across.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

We have poison (ivy) vines that are 1" in diameter growing up the trees.....once i cut a section out of the vine and remove it from the tree, then i start on the root pulling. Have been doing this for two years....pull, get the rash...heal up...go pull again...
Problem is, I can't find it in the winter to pull it....tween the poison stuff and the green briars, it's enough to drive ya crazy