Hey all, I apologize for not updating. Tthough I’m sure people are thankful for not seeing my thread at the top all the time

It’s been a few weeks well, a month actually so here’s an update!
The snow melted, and I was able to get to eork. The HF wood chipper we bought? An absolute BEAST! No joke, if it fits down the shoot it’ll chip, 4” dried and cured maple? No problem. We chipped nearly all of limps that we had thrown to the side from the trees we cut down. We are using the chippings to cover ivy in areas we aren’t trying to go in by hand and clear. So far, it’s working. I made a tow bar for the chipper, the first one I made was shit, just a piece of scrap metal with some stiff to hold it on. This one is heavy duty and works great.
We moved a bunch more stuff. Mostly clearing to get ready to level, dug up s few big ass boulders that we thought were rocks. Funny how the iceberg effect happens.
The gfs mom came up for a couple days. I don’t remember if I posted she had an accident a ew months ago when her and the gf were working. She slipped and buried the chainsaw into her leg. She was fine, a few stitches and good to go. She’s now banned from chainsaw work, obviously. But that woman is a machine! You point at an area you want cleared and she’s die there ripping everything out! She single handed my ckeared probably a 70’x20 foot section of ivy, garbage scrubs, debris, trash, whatever. It looks amazing. But now has me worried. All that underbrush and leave material helps cover the ground when it’s git to keep moisture in.
With that thought I transplanted a bunch of germs from other areas of the property to help keep the ground covered. I’m also looking at buying native shrubs like huckleberries, Oregon grape, even nonnative like currants, and possibly other stiff to start an edible food Forrest and help protect the ground from direct sun.
I worked on a lot of progrcts whole the snow and rain were in town. I found s spoon blank my grandfather had cut out and carved it. It’s amdzing his things like that just come back. I haven’t carved in, 20 years? And once I felt the wood it just came back.i ckeared and organized some of the shop. The gf and I went and bought a bunch of the black and yellow totes from Costco and organized our garage. I went full OCD and deprecated, organized, labeled on three sides the contexts, and stacked them. We wet from a couple dozen odd shaped totes and containers, to a single set and it’s easily accessible.
I wend down to the side of the property and checked out the orchard. It’s been neglected for grandma estimated at least 15 years. Found some good and bad stuff. The good is that the deer have bend though there along with mountain beaver taking care of a lot of the vegetation. The bad is the part they haven’t ckeared is 15 years of blackberries. So I went through with a machete and cleared a bath and today put the blade on the weedehscker and went to town. I went crazy on everything and think I cut most stalks at the ground level. So it’s just maintaining making sure it’s doesn’t start up again.
With that said there is no way I will be able to move all the old dead blackberry vines, it’s in an area that the big tractor can’t get to, but Puttputt can. So I’m looking for a snowplow or something I can mount, add teeth to, and go through and rip everything out. Add that to projects.
I’m dire there’s stuff I’m forgetting but it’s been busy. I forget how much I love working out there when it’s nice.
I’ll post a picture dump later, and I’m not proofing this before because I’m exhausted.thanks everyone for reading along. I’ll post pictures in a day or so with captions!