The trail through our woods

Looking at the trail from the "trailhead"- the large rocks on either side border our parking area

A couple weekends ago we rented a stump grinder and a wood chipper. There were several stumps that were in the way, especially one in our driveway from a tree we took down to enlarge the driving space. And there were some brush piles left by the previous owners that we wanted to get rid of. After taking care of the brush piles, we walked the lot, picking up a lot of the downed branches and clearing up the underbrush. I wouldn't have worried about the underbrush, but we wanted the wood chips for our trail, so we chipped as many branches as we could.

The grinding generated a lot of sawdust (lower right of picture), which is finer than the wood chips (upper left of picture), so we spread that on the trail with the wood chips.

We also lined the path with some of the fallen trees that we didn't chip up. We weren't able to do all the path (the wood chips end at the right edge of the picture), but we got a good start, and I'm excited to finish off this section of the trail. Once we do that, we can clear another loop through the trees.

Have you gotten to use any loud power tools lately?