At this point in the series involving the old shed site, I've finally managed to finish the cleanup of the site. Within the boundaries that I set for myself with regard to how much area to clear, I've managed to cut down all weed trees and any saplings that were making any attempts at growing as well as grind up the pine mulch that was accumulated on the ground.
The burn pile also grew as a result of all this clearing since with every tree that was cleared I had two or three sections that were cut from the tree and stacked on the burn pile. Underneath that is remnants of the old fuel shed. The area that I visually marked off to clear is the area that will in no lesser terms be the future fence line that will link the end of the garden fence to an imaginary corner that will also link the end of the back fence from the old dog yard to that same corner. This extra wood fence will enclose a large piece of land that will be available for my use once I dismantle the old chain link fence that made up the dog yard. With the clearing done I was able to go ahead and start trying to burn up the brush pile. Ironically the day before I was able to fire the pile it rained pretty good, soaking everything enough that I had to pile trash that was somewhat moist under the pile along with a heavy dousing of a veggie oil/kerosene/diesel/solvent mixture I had in a gas can to try and get things started on the burn. I was able to get things going enough so that by the end of the day it did burn up all of the shed wood that was under the brush with a small amount of actual branches and tree parts. The following morning I ended up piling some new trash under the brush pile and using the shears to cut the branches and stuff them in more tightly packed to cover a smaller footprint so when the fire gets started it would be able to burn more material for every minute that the fire was going. I was able to burn a fair amount of material in that episode but not enough to fully consume everything. I'll have to repeat the same thing again until all the material is consumed. With the brush pile burning I also turned my attention to the stack of salvageable pallet wood that I pulled from the old fuel shed. Along with the pallet wood was sections of 2x4's that despite the nails and/or screws, were still usable boards. I spent the morning cutting through the tacks that hold the pallets together as well as using my drill/driver to remove the screws that were in the boards. I managed to get a good little pile of pallet pickets started along with several 2x4's. I will continue with this work the next day to see how far I can get, hopefully I can finish that shit. I've got other things I wanna get to .
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