Well, as the old saying goes: There is a time and a place for all things. The time for the place indicated by the yellow arrow above was a month ago. A month ago the foliage along the fence line could have easily been tamed with the weed-eater and I would not have to have fought woody brush every square foot for the roughly 850 feet. The problem was the weather was so damn hot/humid a month ago that it became easy for me to procrastinate.
By way of orientation, the entry to the property is via the upper road, follow it for half a mile or so and the cabin appears. The road right below the arrow bounds a part of the front pasture. The horizontal distance between the fence line (circled in the photo below) and the road is about 10 foot or so.
Weed-eating 850 feet is not all that difficult. It’s a bitch when the foliage has grown so much that it has become ‘woody’, and a really crusty old bitch when it sits on an embankment that slopes 8 feet or so vertically over 4 horizontal feet. In the photo above I’ve cut the 850 foot embankment and now need to get to the top and the 2-4 foot flat area around the fence.
That part is done! Now I need to get the bolt cutters and cut down all of the woody plants that the trimmer wouldn’t.
These photos were taken just below where the yellow arrow is in the Google Earth capture. The last one shows just how ‘woody’ the area had become.