Glad I came home...

Drove down yesterday to deliver the pop-up trailer. Slow traffic and it took a bit longer to get there. All the trees are down and I actually ran into the owner of Tyson's Excavating who was there picking up the dozer. They did an amazing job for a reasonable price. I highly recommend them! There was apparently a local timber fire and he was getting the dozer to see if they needed it to create a firebreak.



The picture below shows the main gate entrance to the property. I was thinking about staying the night, but they were expecting lots of rain and even landrovers have trouble going uphill in 10 inches of mud. Glad I came home.





Now I can come down and spend the night in comfort.




Looking at timber arches to move some of this around.... It can wait a while.


This is a shot of the timber fire about 10 miles away. I overheard someone at lunch saying that over 10 fire stations had responded.

Excavation day....

Received a call today from the excavation company letting me know he was going to start today. He has been holding off because it kept raining. Went to work to complete a project I was working on and got out of there by 10:30am. Packed up enough stuff to sleep in the car and drove down. Didn't make it here (I am posting from the local McDonald's Wi-Fi) till about 2:45pm. Pulled down the drive and saw the dozer. Looks like he has gone home for the day and will finish tomorrow as he stated this morning. One half of the trees are down and the sun is beating down. I have my work cut out for me! I can't believe how much timber is there. There are many 2 foot diameter Oaks with at least 60 foot of straight trunk. I was also surprised at the size of the root balls. Not much holding those big trees up. May have to get the band saw sooner than I expected. Here are a few pictures of the site now. Hope to log on tomorrow and be here when he is knocking them down.



Lots of trees to cut up.



I can get a nice timber out of that one.