That's about right.
I had two hundred and fifty pounds of weed in a 20' x 20' area to the side of my place. Tomorrow, I get to pull up a similar amount on the side of the fence. Hooray.
Despite that, though, I would like to sing the praises of what's called the hula-hoe, which is not a derogatory term for a girl from Hawaii. No, it's a weeding tool that, on gravel, is amazing at digging up weeds. It just digs in under the gravel and pulls up weeds with the roots (usually). It was still a bloody ton of work, but doing that on my knees by hand would've taken an eternity.
My hula-hoe was a gift from my Aunt and I'm suddenly forever grateful.
I also got a chance to really use my camera's time-delay function to make a movie of the reaping of the weed forest. You can see the headlights of the truck dying, and eventually I had to quit just shy of being actually finished (will do that tomorrow), but it's still pretty cool, especially with the nighttime clouds going by. It was taken at a 10-second interval, which makes things go by pretty darn quickly when the frame rate is 24 per second. It means that every second in the movie is four minutes of work:
Weeding movie
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