In the process of clearing the area behind the chicken yard prior to installing the fence I had to deal with some sections of logs from the leaning tree we had cut down earlier this year. The logs were probably 12ft long in a couple of sections. In order to even move these logs they had to be cut into shorter sections where I can lift them up and roll them onto the 2 wheel dolly to move them from the area. Of course this is where the electric chainsaw came into play.
Now prior to using the saw I had to address the chain. The old chain had been stretched and resharpened so many times that it was time to get rid of that. We got a 2 pack of chains to have a spare on hand after installing one on the saw. Once I put that new chain on the saw the tool ate through those logs like a knife through butter. I got all the sections cut down to manageable sections and got them moved out to the main driveway. Again, with the new chain on the saw, I was able to slice through the logs easily, cutting them into short sections for further splitting on the log splitter. On the next go around I managed to get another nice stack of firewood logs after splitting everything. Now we're even more set on the firewood. Of course that wood will have to further cure so we'll be burning the oldest shit first while this wood dries out. I'll probably end up moving those cuts closer into the area by the firewood shed as we do use up wood. That's for another day. As usual I also had another load of gravel to spread out, this time, going around to continue the coverage of the driveway. Being in the main driveway allowed me to just park the truck in the general area and just start shoveling gravel out into the driveway covering the bare ground. As I got the ground covered and had to extend out from the truck I did have to start using the wheelbarrow to move the rock to the spots I wanted covered. As for the coverage of the gravel I still have the areas around the two old cars in the driveway to cover then I have to move the cars to get those areas before I can say I have the main driveway covered completely. From there I'll cover the extended driveway that goes further along between the house and garden where I had started covering the area before. This area was super muddy at one time but is now pretty good on the coverage but can use some touching up plus I didn't get the area completely covered from the house to the garden. I want all the ground covered so there is no grass all the way up to the skirting on the house and the porch and no grass up to the garden fence. That gravel laying will continue all the way to the opposite end of the midway to where we have the burn can staged and where the east perimeter fence will run. With that I'll have another high traffic area covered up with rock.
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