The beginnings of the back fence.

Having bought a new wood torpedo (Luke 'killed' the last one; blunting it in a particularly hard bit of wood he was attempting to break up) to accompany Luke's purchase of a chain saw I left Luke to have a look around the back of the fence to see if he could remove a five foot pine trunk which was growing almost horizontally. Whilst I stripped back wood on the bannister indoors Luke dug a huge hole around the tree to expose the roots and an hour later I popped out to see how well he was doing. As our garden backs onto a large field it is a complete mess 'out back'. There are brambles and logs littering the place and our fence panels have been falling apart at a rapid pace which is why Luke decided to dig up the tree that is right in the way of where the fence should be. This is the mess at the back of our shed and the offending tree which is happily no more.

I jumped up on top of the tree to beat it into submission. You can just make out how deep the hole that Luke dug was.

After us both pushing, pulling and twisting the trunk we loosened the root system and Luke could cut through the tap root to release it. Here is Luke having a rest on the offending article. Once that was done out came the chain saw and he cut up the wood we have had piled up for the last eighteen months.