Woodwork

a closer inspection by the kenderman... (photo from talus)

The brown diagonal is our pollarded common alder tree.
Being the oldest tree in our garden it took the first hit and
had to deal with the full weight of the fallen tree!

It probably saved our barn from getting damaged.

 Already we have a big pile of branches to despatch...

(photo taken from a ladder)

Only 1/3 of the fallen tree has been removed but the trunk laying on our alder

is still too heavy to remove. So we'll wait and see if time is on our side.

Hopefully evaporation is going to reduce the weight....

Weeding

Here the kenderman is trying to pull a single black alder....

When we arrived 10 years ago the backyard was crowded with similar size alders.

The tree in front of the barn is a replanted self-seeded alder.

Black alder trophy ;)

Wood work

My kenderman has been working outside.
He is been sawing and cloving his butt off :-)

Some of the wood (the wood from the Black Alder, European Alder or Common Alder) has an orangy colour.
I love the smell of sawnwood!