2: Site Clearance
As part of the agreement for buying the plot the previous owner agreed to clear the plot of the 2 mounds of earth.
In April 2018 The site was cleared by the previous owner.
We had to arrange a tree surgeon to fell the 3 trees.
Before
The tree surgeon cut the trees into manageable logs, these were easy to get rid of, to various friends.
I thought the best way to get rid of the remaining branches and shrubs would be to chip them, I left them to dry out between April and July as chippers don't like greenery.
I hired a Timber wolf chipper (£150 for the weekend including delivery, fuel and PPE), it should handle 5" diameter branches.
The chipping was slow going as all the branches had to be stripped basically to straight poles, otherwise the chipper would jam or get blocked/bunged up. We filled about 1/2 the box trailer with chippings but then the chipper started to play up, so we put the reaming branches to the local skip.
Ready for the site scrape
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