Timber!!!

Prior to Phil and Ian starting with the paddock fencing (hey, it's really happening!) there were some trees that had to come out. No way could we have them taken out at a later time once the fencing is all in place.
Here's some pix of the process. In all we took down 5 blackbutts (great for building, but not good for sticking in the ground and so no good for fence posts) and a terpentine (which Phil cut up into some 40 split posts and still there is a few cubic meters of timber left for milling).
One of the pix below shows the pile of 'firewood' at a very early stage. Silly me forgot to take more pix, but it ended up to be at least 5 times as big and took 4 days to burn down to ash.
Another just shows what the inside of some of the blackbutts was like - ants had got to them and although they were up to 150-odd years old, it was an unscheduled accident waiting to happen.
We're planning to put a big 3-bay shed in the area where the tress once stood - of course, we'll have to somehow get those stumps out first ...