I Thought This Yard Would Take TWO DAYS... I Was SO WRONG

This house had been vacant for several years before a new family moved in; they asked me for some free help to tidy up the yard a bit. When I arrived, I saw a house with a slightly overgrown lawn and a few bushes in front of it. After talking with the owner, she asked me to remove all the bushes except for the central thuja. Then we moved on to the backyard, where things looked much worse: a thick lawn that hadn’t been mowed in several years so the grass had practically merged with the ground and a huge amount of blackberry vines that had taken over half the yard. She also asked me to remove almost all the trees in the backyard, since they wanted to come up with something new, and besides, most of the trees had simply dried up. After inspecting everything, I decided I could finish the job in two days, but I was very much mistaken, since I hadn’t taken into account that it gets dark very early in the winter. I started working in the front yard by removing the shrubs, but since I hadn’t brought a chain hoist, I used only a shovel and a hoe, so it took much longer. After digging up a large yew bush, I decided that I’d simply cut down the next one and grind up the roots with a stump grinder, so I cut the remaining shrubs down to the root and then used the grinder to shred the roots. It was getting dark, so I loaded all the clippings into the trailer and drove off to unload them. The next day, I returned and loaded the remaining branches that hadn’t fit in the trailer; I also gathered the pavers that were lying in the grass and leveled the pile of sand, filling in the hole that the owners had left behind perhaps in an attempt to do the work themselves. Next, using a trimmer, I cut the weeds and the edges of the lawn and began mowing the lawn, after first removing the grass catcher. The grass, though not very tall, was very thick, and there was also a lot of moss, which made mowing difficult. Then, using a rake, I gathered the clippings into green bags. After that, I used a Tielbürger weed shredder to clear the driveway leading to the garage and the house. The next day, I cleared the flower bed in front of the house of weeds. Then I cleared the steps leading to the backyard of weeds; I also trimmed the bushes and cut back the dried flowers. To remove the moss from the steps, I used a yellow brush attachment for the trimmer. Next, I began removing the blackberry vines using a trimmer with a blade, which took me several hours to clear. Then I gathered the clippings into piles and loaded them into the trailer. The next day, I started removing bushes and trees, as well as the remaining blackberry vines from the garden shed; I cleared the shrubs near the well and trimmed a small hedge. After clearing away all the clippings, I decided to start mowing the grass with the lawn mower, but after mowing just one swath, I realized it was pointless because the grass was very wet and thick and was simply clogging up the mower, so I decided to use the brush cutter to trim the grass. I had to repeat this process several times: first I trimmed, then I raked it up, and on the third try I mowed with the lawn mower. It was already dark, so not the entire process made it onto the video. The next day, I went back, raked up the remaining grass, and uprooted two trees near the house. Then I used the Tielburger again to clean the pavers near the house. Near the well, I used a pitchfork to probe the area under the pavers, since the layer of grass and soil was about 10 cm thick. It turned out that the path led to the garden shed, so I cleared that area as well and then trimmed the edges with a trimmer. The job was completed; it took me 5 days, or just over 20 hours of work, and I hauled away 4 full trailer loads.