For Labor Day, we invited a few friends over to labor. Our goal was to remove a couple of huge buckthorn trees in our prairie--beautiful but invasive trees that are covered with glossy black berries and drop bazillions of seeds every fall or spread them via birds that feast on the berries.
Our tools of destruction included a weed wrench, swede saw, loppers. spade, plus chainsaw, gloves and mosquito repellant (not shown.)
Dave gets into it, climbing up into the tree to remove boughs that are hung up.
The cluster of stumps from one of the buckthorns. The heartwood is a beautiful red color--hope we can persuade a wood-turning friend to make us a set of salad bowls from it...
The dirty, sweaty buckthorn busters: Mary, Dan, Rog and Dave.
Big stump.
Only another 6 or 8 big buckthorn trees (and 6000 to 8000 little ones) to go.
Thanks to our great friends for their hard work!
1 comment:
Oh my!! Thank goodness for good friends! Good luck with your buckthorn battle!
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