By the end of June we should have most of the big trees removed, with the exception of 1 monster silver birch which will need an arborist. So far so good...we've only broken 1 handsaw, the chain off our weeny teeny chainsaw, & bodies are coping with all the repetitive sawing mostly OK :-)
Our biggest success was toppling the cherry tree (a non-edible variety unfortunately)...see these links for the action:
cheery tree - almost cherry tree down!


Moving stuff without a car has also been interesting. Fortunately we've got plenty of storage options close by, & the bike trailer turns out to be quite handy for gathering masses of banana boxes from St Martins New World.