Another weekend and some more work. Since we don't have any family living anywhere close to us, we have to either hire sitters so the wife (C) and I can both work or split duties. Right now, I usually work both days and our son (B) has to work a minimum of four hours per weekend. Our daughter (S) is really too little to do much but we try to have her out ther 1-2 hours per weekend depening on weather.
This weather this weekend was mixed - Saturday good, Sunday raining. B and I had a late start because we hit a show in the morning while C and S went to a high school dance competition ... S had a blast :-)
B and I worked on clearing out branches left over from all the limbing up that I have been doing. Because the area was so crowded and sunlight limited, lots of dead branches so those have to be removed. We were only able to get about 3.5 hours in.
On Sunday, it was rainy but the show must go on. I worked alone :-( but was able to get quite a bit done. Worked mainly on clearing out underbrush in one section so I could see marked progress instead of a little bit in many areas. I also fell three more trees and limbed them up. The brush pile is now about 30' x 30' x 5'.
A couple days ago, John (property adjacent to ours) and I met with a guy to see what he would charge to bring in a 20ton excavator to do site clearing (remove remaining old growth stumps that I couldn't pull out and leveling out the ground). We asked him how much to do both our properties and he hasn't given a hard quote yet, he just said "we'll work something out".
Today, I met with a guy that has done a couple other sites and has equipment within the development so no fees to transport. He gave me a price of ~ $1500 per lot which was a little higher than I planned. Going to call the first guy back and see if he will do both lots for $2000 and go from there.
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