Substantially finished today! All the vines and briars on the ground are gone. In their place is a coating of ground up sticks like a chipper would leave, thanks to old D-R. I may cut a few more wild cherries from the former fence row later. Those gnarly wild cherry trees are a pain and a scourge. They tend to crawl low over the ground when covered by vines. Any tree not near vertical was cut already. Considerable muscle built over the project, and no power tools used other than a chain saw and D-R brush mower.
I now have a huge brush pile to dispose of composed of masses of vines, cedar limbs, wild plum, privet, elm, and thorny locust. I piled the brush on top of the nearly two foot deep flat of sludge from the pond, so no grass will be killed in case it catches fire.
