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Starting
to clear for the new road
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Look carefully
& you can see a couple of folk hard at work.
This photo give you an idea
of the density of trees, though even in this photo much has
been cleared. You can also see a pile of sticks that shows
what dead wood we've cleared just in this small area. It was
so dense that you couldn't walk through it at all.
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Our friend
Tootie is marking the boundary line with bright orange spray
paint. You can see a couple of small trees have been felled,
and most of the debris removed. |
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The
road is starting to take shape - August 1999
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You can see the
new road taking shape.
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As you can see
in this photo, some of our trees are quite large. Mike would
chainsaw-fell a tree, saw off all the limbs and then I would
gather all the debris into a big pile to be disposed of later
(burned!)
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Stump
Removal - September 1999
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We paid a
neighbor for his labor and use of his bulldozer to clear the
stumps for our new road. This photo shows a close-up of Blaine
operating the bulldozer. I got a coating of dust trying to
take this photo!
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Head-on view of
the dozer coming down the road to remove the stumps. Very
impressive. |
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Rear view of
dozer as it leaves a relatively clear path behind! |
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Mike proudly
showing off the new road. There's still a lot of work to be
done, shaping and grading, but as you can see - it definitely
looks like a road now. The earth was incredibly soft after
being churned up by the tree stumps and dozer. It was like
walking on a bed of flour!! |
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Lots
of Grading Required
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Lots of grading
to be done. We had to go back and forth along the road a
zillion times to smooth out the road, and help it take its
shape! |
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We even got our
friend Garr to do some of the grading! |
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Pulling
and Stacking Logs
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Before we bought
our forklift attachment, the logs were chained up and drug to
their stacking destination (by the side of the old
road). |
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We have two
decent sized piles of logs stacked by the side of
the old road - awaiting construction! |
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Burning
all that excess wood - January 2000
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Mike starts the
fire with a blow-torch We pull some of the brush aside and
start small! |
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Pretty smokey! |
