Clearing The Land
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- Clear view of our building site from across the road. Notice the white pop-up trailer and the driveway up to it. The rest of the knoll are young Douglas Fir.
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- Stack of young DougFir on the right being pulled out by my jeep and I.
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- Before any trees are removed. This view is looking exactly where the garage will be.
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- I couldn’t wait for the Excavator…I had to start with my jeep and chainsaw.
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- Jeep and I dragging(skidding) the first of the trees out.
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- Small cleared area where our cabin will eventually sit.
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- One of the first people we met offered his tractor for some of the work that had to be done. Wow, what a blessing. We used it many days that first year. Thanks Dwayne!
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- I thought I was pretty tough stuff to be moving this big old growth timber.
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- My daughter Briana holding our grandson Eli watching his favorite heavy equipment…the Excavator.
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- Grandpa Dave enjoys watching the earth move with his grandkids Lucia and Elijah. It just doesn’t get any better than that.
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- Dwayne pitching in.
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- We had two 10’x30′ piles of brush and trees to burn.
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- I guess Bonnie has a streak of ‘pyro’ in her. Here she is spraying diesel on the pile to heat up the flame. It took 3 days to burn just one pile.
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- Bonnie is burning the second pile little by little..
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- This snag is only 100 feet from our cabin. Eagles and other wildlife frequent the property.
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- Most of the clearing is done. Bonnie and I spent 195 days living in our pop-up trailer. Later you will see our camp.
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- Ken came over to help with the heavy lifting. Thanks Ken.
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- You are looking at the site of the garage.
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- Eli loves tractors!
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- There is nothing better than to share your dream with your kids and grandkids.
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- Burning this pile was more work than I anticipated.
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- I had to constantly move the brush up onto the pile to keep things burning. I even rented this gas powered fan to raise the temp.
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- The site of the garage is starting to materialize.
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