Wow! This was (and still is) a big job. We’ve regained about 12′ of the yard that had been taken back by the forest. Hubby limbed up the big Deodora Cedar, and a Douglas Fir. He also took out a plum, a Canadian Hemlock, part of a filbert and most of a Hawthorn. We also cut back enormous amounts of wild blackberry plants. We unearthed the old rabbit hutch, the tetherball pole, and removed some rabbit fence sections.
Halfway through the second day, we broke the chainsaw and not twenty minutes later, we broke the chipper – we were tired and it was a bad day.
Today Hubby got the chain back on the chainsaw so we didn’t have to pay to have that repaired (Yay!). Later in the day, we tried the chipper again, thinking it had overheated – nothing. We had decided to take it in for repair and rent something for the day/week to finish the job. While Hubby called around ($99 per day rental + cost of repair) I checked out YouTube. It looked like there weren’t too many moving parts. Hubby had already checked the chipper input and the shredder input – things turned, but clunked. I decided to, for some reason, check the output – it was clogged. We removed the guard and picked out all of the tangled mess, put everything back together and it started (Double Yay)!
All of the fence posts are painted and topped with black metal caps and things are starting to look pretty good.
We forgot the before photo. This is at the end of Day 1. 
The Hawthorn was horrible. Spikes and branches going every which way. 
End of Day 2. We keep breaking our tools. 
End of Day 3. The piles are gone and most of the posts are painted. The old rabbit hutch is going to keep its rustic charm.
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