Mum's 70th birthday edition: Overgrown chicken area cleanup

5 months ago
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This video is not from my property.
My brother and I decided to surprise our Mum for her 70th birthday by going to stay with my parents for a few days.
They live a reasonable distance from us, around 8-9 hours drive or a 1.5 hour flight. We spent from Saturday to Wednesday with them and it was a really wonderful time.
One of the "presents" we gave was us working together to dismantle their run-down, no longer functional chicken area that was destroyed by strong winds from a tropical cyclone a number of years ago.
The chickens were re-homed to their neighbour for some time, but all of his and their chickens eventually fell prey to pythons and goannas!
The area had become a very overgrown, unmanageable eye-sore and it was time for it to go. Now that it is cleared (with the exception of the old chicken coop itself which we didn't get around to moving) it will be far easier to maintain and look a lot nicer.
Some of the corrugated iron and star-pickets are earmarked to become new raised veggie garden beds... but that is a future project.
Happy Birthday Mum! I hope you had a great 70th.

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