September 8, 2018

Quick trip to the Fifty Acre Wood to pay the workers. Progress is going well, they have touched all easement areas, just lacking a few big trees and final stump cuts. 

For my share of the day, I completed all framing and dirt work for the firewood rack. I now just need to add the roof.

time: 2hrs

September 7, 2018

The past week we have had two crews working on two separate projects; easement clearing and general land cleanup. the easement clearing started Thursday and these guys really got after it. We needed 26 feet of road frontage cleared to run electricity, problem is we already had a fence installed. Other contractors wanted us to dismantle the fence to clear the easement, the crew we selected would work around the fence. After two days they were about 2/3 complete and we had a surplus of logs.

  

The general land cleanup involve removing dead trees and clearing our view to the pond and removing stumps where the barn will be constructed. This crew had most of this work completed upon my arrival.

It's good to see progress. Most of my day was spent with the easement crew. I would help them fell the trees then use the tractor to haul the logs off the easement onto our property.

9hrs

September 1, 2018

Got a late start today and when I arrived at the land Antonio had already dropped one load of dirt. Over the next 3 hours he would deliver the remaining two loads. In the meantime I started working on leveling the area for the wood rack once that was done then I started assembling the wood rack. I got the framing all complete now I just need to assemble the decking and the roof and the wood rack will be done.

I also talked to Antonia about removing tree stumps and knocking down the eight trees for price of $2,100. I also struck a deal with a guy Rudy know that will cut down the trees along the fence line on our property and the Lafavors for $7000. 

9hrs

August 31, 2018

Always a lot to do at the Fifty Acre Wood, but today I am suppose to receive a load of crushed concrete and five loads of fill dirt at 9am today. Antonio finally showed up at 11am with the crushed concrete and fill dirt. And I was able to complete the pad site for the firewood rack.

  

I wanted to put the old tractor up for sale on Craigs list, so I wanted some good pictures. Since the weed eater didn't work, I tried to pull/push it out of the weeds with the new tractor. It took some time but I was finally able to move it and take some pictures.

  

  

I also had to cut up a fell tree and get it delt with so it was blocking way to pond. So I spent some time cutting firewood.

9hrs

August 25, 2018

Late start today didn't get to the property till about 11 but it's a Saturday. I started late because I promised the kids some chicken minis.

Today I wanted to work on filling in a low spot around the pond so I could go straight to the field I had been cutting yesterday and not have to take a long way. I spent all day on that trying to make a bridge over the wet spot and I'm about 80% complete and I called it a day

time 5hr

August 24, 2018

This morning I met with BJ about clearing the easement for electricity on our property and Lafavors property. I also showed him additional work needed; stumps pulled up in the barn area, clean up the area south of the driveway. He seems to think the fence will need to be disassembled in order to clear the easement on our property. On the Lafavers property he needs permission to push the trees down into their property because the falling of the trees may damage other trees. He also thinks that the Energy company will want us to knock down the trees and not cut them down I'm in favor of cutting them down seems like it would be cheaper and easier to manage.

After an hour of discussing the easement work I was able to get some work done on the tractor I worked on clearing the area next to the pond and getting that mess all cleared out. After all day of clearing the weeds the place actually look good I spent the last hour washing down the equipment and greasing all the equipment.

time 8hr

August 18, 2018

Very ambitious day today but a short time to do it. I have until 1pm and I got started at 9am so this gives me 4 hours to do more than I think I can do.

So what I had plan to do was; mark the easement boundary, mark the barn area, flag the roots to dig up, and the mark the trees to knock down. If I have any time left I want to mark off the cabin area for clearing.

Before any of this can be done I need to do some basic maintenance on the tractor.

Here's what I actually got accomplished; the easement, the barn site, the tree roots and the trees to be knocked down. I did finish task from last visit, spraying for weeds along the fence line.

Time: 4 hrs