I Drove 200 KM...I Had NO IDEA It Was THIS BAD!

It took me two days of driving more than 200 km to clear the backyard, which was overgrown with blackberries. I was asked to help tame a heavily overgrown backyard that had been completely taken over by blackberries, but there was one problem: the house was located 200 km away from where I work, The owner really begged me to do it, since their son’s birthday was coming up and they had invited a lot of guests, but there simply wasn’t enough space in the yard to accommodate everyone. I told her I’d do it, and at the appointed time early in the morning, I set out, taking everything I needed for the job. The drive was long, even on the highway, and after 2.5 hours, I arrived at the address. The owner met me and showed me the yard; he explained that they had bought and moved into this house not long ago and were now working on renovating the interior. The house had stood empty for over seven years, so nature had taken its toll during that time. The area in front of the house wasn’t too overgrown, but there was a lot of construction debris to the right of the house. However, when I walked into the backyard, I saw nothing but a jungle. The owner said the yard was over 2,000 m² it was hard to believe anything had ever been there. Blackberry bushes grew everywhere, and vines entwined the walls and trees. Since time was not on my side, I was determined to get the job done in a single day, so I got right to work, starting with the front yard. First, I mowed the grass with a trimmer; for the thicker bushes, I used a metal blade attachment. I cleared away all the debris, rocks basically anything that was getting in the way of my work then I mowed the lawn in front of the house (probably the only spot that wasn’t overgrown), then I collected the clippings and, using the Tielbürger TW50S, cleared the moss and weeds from the pavers in front of the house. Next, I trimmed the hedge and continued on the back side, clearing out the overgrowth; I also trimmed the bush in front of the window a bit and removed the ivy. Then I gathered the trimmings, but there was a lot of debris there, I couldn’t take the trash out, so I piled it up, and placed the glassware next to the house wall. Then I mowed the grass again with the trimmer, after which I blew out the yard and put everything back in its place. Quite a bit of time had passed; there were about 5 hours left until dusk, so I grabbed the gas-powered trimmer with the blade attachment and went to the backyard, immediately starting to cut back the blackberry bushes by the addition and the garage; I had to put on thicker gloves because the bushes had large thorns. After clearing a small patch of the wall from the bushes, I found a bicycle I wonder how long it had been lying there. There was also a lawn mower in the middle of the yard; perhaps the owner had tried to do something himself. In fact, the blade attachment turned out to be completely ineffective against the blackberries, so I switched to the brush cutter attachment, which made things a little easier. Then I cleared out the shed—it was full of junk so I removed as much of the vines as I could, then, using another trimmer, I cut back the bushes to open up the space a bit. It was already getting late in the afternoon, and I realized that without the right tool, I wouldn’t finish the job, so I decided to continue the next day. I started cleaning up; there was a large volume of blackberry vines, so I shredded them a bit with the trimmer the trailer was already full. Early the next morning, I unloaded the trailer and set out to find something more effective for dealing with the blackberries, and I found a special mulcher blade. As soon as I started working, I was really surprised at how easily it handled the job even thick branches were no longer a problem. But the biggest advantage was that it not only cut the bushes but also shredded them, which saved a lot of space in the trailer. In just a few hours of work, I was able to make much more progress and even found a large woodpile in the forest. True, at one point I lost control of the trimmer and punctured a wall with the blade. Then I found a wooden fence behind the blackberries; after clearing a little more, I peered through the bushes. Visibility was poor, but I could still roughly tell that the fence was about 40 meters long, so I decided not to remove any more blackberries, since that would probably take several days. I started cleaning up by gathering everything into piles, removing the trash I found, and then shredding the clippings and bagging them. Next, I mowed the grass and the area where the blackberries had been to shred them even better; then I cleared the soil off the pavers and even found a stone patio in the middle; finally, I blew everything clean. This work took me two days about 20 hours of work. I hope that what I’ve done will serve as good motivation for the owner to continue transforming his yard!