After burning up the first brush pile from the trimmed branches that were left along the driveway I quickly picked up the remaining branches that were along the driveway. You might think remaining means there wasn't a lot left. You would be wrong. There was a shit ton of branches still strung along probably another 100ft + of driveway. I ended up having to pull a lot of branches from this area and stacking them on a new burn pile in the same area I had the last burn pile. The quicker I got all these branches cleared the quicker I can get to the work of clearing the grounds behind the chicken yard fence and along the future fence line going from the chicken yard fence to the driveway.
After a while I finally got all the branches cleared. I had to use the shears to trim many of the branches into smaller sections in order to better stage them into a tighter stack on the burn pile. When the pile is fired I won't have to work as hard to move the errant branches that aren't close to the hot zone further in. Once the core of the pile burns down I would've had to kick many branches into the coal bed for them to be consumes versus making sure the pile was dense to begin with so all of the material would burn properly. I even stacked some garbage bags under the branches as I was stacking them to aid in the burning of the still green wood. But once the driveway was cleared I was able to move on to a new project. The next project is the hanging of white LED Christmas lights. The point to this project is to have these lights lining the fence on the inside as well as being placed in strategic spots around the homestead like on the house or even in the larger fruit trees of the garden so when activated the whole yard will be illuminated in a light white glow that will allow us to move about the yard at night without messing with our night vision. Plus the glow from the LED lights will help make the grounds look pleasant. The first spot I started in was with the fence going from the driveway into the yard a bit then turns towards the storage trailer and back toward the fuel shed. I had a 23 ft long string of cool white LED Xmas lights that are expandable. I wanted to see how this string of lights works when it comes to illuminating the area. I started tacking up the string of lights using the staple gun and working my way slowly and carefully from the edge of the fence down and around. The staple gun made quick work of the light string. I left everything up so when the job is down I can relish in the glow of lights across the yard at night at any time. Of course that following night I had to test out the lights to see how they shined so I can determine if I might need to try something else. Of course because the beginning of the string was at the end of the fence far away from any established outlet, I had to grab some extension cord to plug the lights up. Once I plugged the lights up they lit up the area around the driveway and in front of the storage trailer pretty good given the idea they are some low intensity LED lights. When You get a lot of them together their brightness adds up. As can be seen the lights are pretty good. I can only imagine when the whole fence line is lined up with these LED lights they will light up the yard pretty good with a low glow that still penetrates through the yard far from the source of the light. These lights will also be strung through the chicken yard as well for the sake of bathing the yard in the same low intensity glow necessary to help us see anything that may not belong in the yard without turning the chicken yard into a nighttime baseball game with blinding light. I will also have to run new power lines to feed these lights, more than likely doing like I did before with the extra long extension cords either trenched from main power lines such as the run going to the storage trailer or the run feeding the chicken yard. Either way I'll end up installing more outdoor outlets fed by buried extension cords and the lights will be plugged up to these outlets as the only load, meaning that I have to strategically place the lights in order to capitalize on the expansion capability of the light strings so I can one power feed taking care of 100+ foot strings of LED lights. Hell I might even put remote controls on these lights where I can wirelessly activate the lights from inside the house when desired. I wouldn't want to just turn on a shitload of LED Xmas lights all over the place if I'm not going to be moving about through these areas. With the low cost of these lights I will be able to cover all of the areas I want to cover with a minimum cash outlay. The hardware for the power runs will obviously cost more especially if I factor in any remote control hardware. Time will tell.
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