Hi, I have some additional land at the back of my property that I started trying to clear about a month ago. It was like this when we purchased the property about 3 years ago and fenced off from the rest of our backyard. It was/still is filled with privet and weeds and myself and a couple of family members chainsawed a fair bit out about a month ago and hired a big mulcher to clear some of the privet. Ideally I would like to clear the remaining privet and weeds however I think the area needs a good spray with glyphosate or similar, by someone with a professional spray unit such as this company I found with a quick google search; http://weeds.net.au/noxious.php, before I chop the rest of the privet out. I have my own spray units including a backpack sprayer however this job requires a professional I think.
I have attached some photos for reference however I have done a bit of spraying with heavy duty glyphosate since the photos were taken but I think it needs someone with a heavy duty unit to get into it with the sloping and overgrown terrain. Working down the slope, there is no direct back neighbour as the back drops off over a cliff face, it is fenced before the drop off with a tall chainwire fence however you can't see it with the overgrown terrain in front of it.
What I am wondering is, has anyone had to clear any of their property like this any who did they use? as I would like to get some quotes. I am located in Sydney's Northern suburbs near Hornsby.
Once cleared I would like to see what I am left with and possibly do a stupid thing such as add a pool for the use of my 2 kids and plant some natives or liilypilly's etc around the borders to add some green back to the already green area we live in. I have investigated leisure and compass pools and compass pools seems to be able to install pools on slops like the area I have with their maxi-rib technology, http://www.compasspools.com.au/maxi-rib-pools/, so the excavation costs might be able to be kept down with the drop off I already have. I could then deck out from the end of our back grass area, around a pool and extend the flat area of the back of our fully sloped block. Any ideas or experience on any of this would be greatly appreciated. Cheers.
The pictures of the area to be cleared, makes the area look a bit smaller than it is however about 1 metre left of the stormwater easement is the boundary line to our left hand side neighbour. We already have a reasonably good sized grassed backyard, a paved area where the trampoline and a deck so a pool would top it off.
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Skip the pool, its only going to be heartache, with pool regulations getting more stringent nthe costs are prohibitive, plus once the kids reach the age of being able to go to the beaches they dont use the pool anymore.
Mine needs repainting which is half the cost of a new pool, plus there were new fences as the old ones no longer complied, the cost of cleaning when its not even possible to swim 8 months of the year.