Month: May 2020

Well, not actually a bonfire, I’m just burning off the remains of the stumps and tree roots out in the back paddock.It’s been 10 days without any Covid-19 cases here in Tasmania, 10 active cases remaining, 4 of those in hospital but not in ICU. All cases are still in...

I’ve been doing a bit of reading about the Sars-CoV-2  coronavirus, designated Covid-19, and the prospects for a vaccine, and apparently it’s not that straightforward.  Coronaviruses don’t trigger a long lasting immunity, and like the common cold, which is sometimes caused by a human coronavirus, we can get infected repeatedly,...

I’ve begun a new activity to keep me busy here on the property. I’m calling it “stump busting”. It’s where you remove old tree stumps in their entirety including as much of the roots as possible. It’s mostly done by hand using a shovel, mattock, block splitter, crow bars, wedges,...

Now that the brush pile rehabilitation project is sort of finished, I decided to tackle the dead tree that was at the side of the dead stumps. I managed to bring it down fairly neatly between the other trees and start taking all the broken dead branches up to the...