My neighbours land (2.75 acres) was last cultivated at the end of the war by the War Agricultural Executive Committee. Since then it has been left to grown thorn bushes (being used by the farmer who owned it to park machinery on, some of it still there). My new neighbour has started clearing it to make two paddocks and a machinery store/workshop. As he is a Civil Engineering contractor, he has the ability and machinery to do the job.
I am now very busy harvesting the firewood which should last several years (there are logs up to 9 inches diameter). I have filled the woodshed and am now stacking the cordwood between my conifer trees. I have even bought a new chainsaw to deal with it. My neighbour is sorting it out with an 8 ton digger and dropping it behind my hedge. It will save on gas for heating.
