You could have driven the excavator over the pile a few times to crush it down, dug a hole, pushed it in and buried the brush.
I feel sorry for the people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, thats the best they're going to feel all day - former President Lyndon B. Johnson
!! That was quite a project . At least you didn't do it by hand (diggin the trench , that is 
) .