As usual when we do routine yard work around the compound, we can't go on without doing some more gravel. Even though we've pretty much closed in the compound and everything within those walls is graveled up, the work on spreading the gravel is not done. On the outside of the fences, I plan on laying gravel along those fences to serve as a pathway to get to the east side of the compound, where the trailers are stored. I already started laying gravel along the south fence line to connect to patches of gravel that was already laid into this area. The patch that was extending out from the pathway between the Storage Trailer and garden is where I'm laying more gravel, reaching out to the main driveway. Once this link is done, I'll then add gravel on the opposite side, going east, to connect to another large patch of gravel that I had laid for use in setting the tow dolly and boats earlier.
With the gravel laid, I moved on to the north east corner of the compound, over where the shooting range is located. I had to clean up some fallen branches along the north fence line, adding to my growing burn pile but the main thing was to clear the area around the back of the Shooting Range as well as along the tree line, going east from the Shooting Range. There was a mixture of fallen trees, weed trees, blackberry briars and poison ivy. As before, I had to pull out all the big guns to work this shitshow. I had to work my way slowly but surely through the floral crap, chopping stuff and cutting the stuff into manageable pieces to stack on to the burn pile. I'm trying a new routine of being able to cut the detritus into smaller pieces so the stuff can be stacked better and tighter, allowing me to build a smaller burn pile while still stacking the maximum amount of trash into said burn pile. I managed to clear a large area behind the Shooting Range as well as around the northeast corner of the fence line. I even managed to drop the remains of a couple dead trees that were in the area. After analyzing the area, I determined that by clearing the area that I did, I can actually set the area up to allow me to actually convey small vehicles along the north fence line and around the rear of the Shooting Range then between two trees just east of the Shooting Range. Once I get everything finalized with this area, we will be able to move vehicles all the way around the compound on either side. Even as I finished clearing up the area, I fired the burn pile to get things started so I could get a good ember pile started in order to allow me to continue to throw more plant scraps onto the burning pile. I started to cut up the larger fallen tree trunks and move those cuts onto the already burning pile so they can get heated up just as well. I even managed to chop some stumps flush with the ground just to get ahead of the game on that end. Once I exhausted the batteries in my tools, I stopped cutting and adding garbage to the burn pile. There's still plenty of trash to cut up and start a new burn pile once again, so I'll be starting a new burn pile once this one cools down. As with the south fence line, I'll run a gravel path from the main driveway along this fence line and around the back area behind the Shooting Range and out into the clearing to provide another path for travel. Of course, this means I'll be working with the spreading of gravel for quite some time until all these areas get fully covered. At the same time this work will allow us to clear the surrounding woods enough so to make the area more pleasant to look at while being able to move through the woods. I've had plans on cutting some paths through the woods to create some go kart/ATV paths that we can use for testing such classes of vehicles. Doing this type of work is a head start to eventually establishing paths through the surrounding woods, so expect to see more instances of burn piles being formed and more gravel being laid as we do manage to get the woods trimmed up through the future.
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