Clearing continued

 

 

The kids have a love hate relationship with the new property - they love to go out there and head out "on adventures" through the woods but they hate working :-)  

Over the past week, we have been busy making progress with lots of smaller areas like pulling branches, limbing up dead branches, picking out huge rocks, clearing paths in the woods, .... Visual progress has been slower since I've cleared about 99% of the trees in the building site plan leaving another 4 1/2 acres of trees. 

It has been very rewarding to see the fruits of our labor; almost like pioneers although as my son says "so much easier with a chain saw and a Dingo".  I couldn't agree more.

Love using equipment instead of horses

Five chains, five quarts of chain oil, two gallons of gas, views .... priceless

 

 

 

Starting to look accessible

 

Firewood pile started

We are limited to cutting down no more than 5000' board feet per year but once I'm done clearing, I will be about 3500' - 4000'