After getting our hands on some more fencing materials I was able to go ahead and deal the final blow to the run of fence dividing the chicken yard from the rest of the area. Leaving only a small opening that needs to be set up to serve as a back door opening, the chicken yard fence will be done once I put up the pickets on the last span of fence. Of course with the nail gun I made quick work of the section of fence, getting the boards up. After looking at how things were and mentally planning out how I want to do the posts and other sections in order to fully close in the chicken yard, I decided to change directions. The F150 was staged in the midway between the house and the garden, effectively blocking the way to the rest of the yard and the way around the back to where the old dog yard area is. This is especially problematic since for one, the ground around where the truck sat was muddy and sloppy, making it hard to maneuver the zero turn mower through in order to cut the rest of the grounds all the way around to the old dog yard area. Second, with the truck in the way I couldn't even do anything like use one of the trucks to pull a trailer around the back to the old dog yard area in order to stage anything like another camper trailer or what not. Since I will be sinking posts along the driveway at some point in the near future in order to put up that line of fence, I figured that I could move the F150 to the spot right next to where I parked the F250 running parallel to the driveway. Even though as it stands the F150 and F250 would be dead in the middle of the yard, once the fence is up along the driveway, the truck will not be visible from the driveway and that section of yard will be like a channel that has fence on the driveway side as well as the chicken yard side. I ended up using the F250 to pull the F150 from its resting area in the midway. I pulled the truck up into the main driveway pointing up away from where I wanted it to go because my next move was going to be to push the truck a little and let it roll down into its resting place. We had to work to get it moving since the stretch of ground wasn't at a sharp grade. Once I did get the truck rolling I was able to steer it and let it roll right where I wanted it. At least the brakes worked so I didn't have to gradually push it to keep it from running away from me into a tree. With the F150 moved the midway was cleared as intended. The ground directly underneath the truck was pretty dry and solid while the ground on either side was mushy as hell. Of course the hope is that the constant sun and heat will eventually dry up the ground enough to allow all of it to be easily traversed even by a full size vehicle. Even though there is chain link fencing in the mud, I will probably end up having to drop gravel or crushed asphalt onto the grounds as intended anyway to cover all of this shit up. That's always been my plan, covering damn near every square foot of ground with gravel, having no grass to deal with anywhere within the fenced in confines of my compound. With the midway cleared, even with the mud, there is enough area that is somewhat tolerable where the zero turn can be walked across without getting stuck. Again, I will probably end up having to put shit down to at least fill in the mud and act like concrete to some degree. Hell pouring concrete into the mud may even be an option to help soak up the excess water.
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