Locust tree progress

After a few days of sawing and sweating and chipping and sweating here is where we stand.

To be cut further and split:

To be split..this is about half of them. the rest are by the woodshed. then we got smarter and decided to leave them here until they are split instead of killing ourselves trying to move these giant pieces:

To be cut further:

To be run through the chipper/shredder...a 6'x12' trailer FULL:

After 1.5 hours of putting through the chipper/shredder...about half done:

Results of 1.5 hours sweating over chipper/shredder...pretty mulch:

Total mulch for half a trailer of branches....3 containers plumb full of mulch. (covered in case it rains).

The only casualty was i hit my knee on the trailer and cut it and now there is a pretty bruise and it hurts like hell. so i will take a day or 2 off from manual labor. i'm getting too old for this.