In my quest to get the chicken yard covered in gravel I managed to get another load of gravel that from what I seen would put me in a position to only need maybe a half a load more before I get the ground fully covered. Well anyway as usual I did my normal routine of dumping gravel along the ground, maintaining a line going across the yard, in front of the car coops and to the opposite side of the yard to the fence line. I dropped some gravel around the Toyota Chicken Truck, pushing some under the truck a little then going ahead and working more gravel around one tree near the fence line as well as around some stumps next to said tree. The area remaining extends from the back half of the Toyota Chicken Truck over to the S10 Ranger Coop, probably an area around 8ft x 12ft. This area will probably take only a half a load of gravel. Once I get that remaining area covered I'll start covering the area outside of the chicken yard in front of the gate and extending out into the open area where its muddy as well. I currently have our car trailer parked in this area since the section of yard where I would've parked the trailer (next to the chicken yard fence) is muddy and unable to really handle the F250 or the trailer. With the chicken yard taken care of I turned my attention over to the continued clearing of the fallen trees at the other end of the homestead. I had already burned the first brush pile I stacked up so another one had to be started so I can get more of that trash disposed of. Instead of trying to focus on cutting larger trunks and branches I focused on the other end of the tree pile where the foliage and branches were laying. Cutting up the branches and other crap at this end allowed me to get a super large pile of trash stacked up in short order as well as clear a sizable amount of crap from the area. Even with the moving of cut up branches to the brush pile I was still able to cut up some trunks among this detritus to stack on the soon to be firewood pile. After cutting the pine foliage from some branches, I ended up saving these pieces or sections as they were wide enough and straight enough that I would be able to cut these into short stackable pieces of firewood. I even set up the half drum and got a fire started again so I could burn up small pieces of crap that I picked up among the other branches that I moved to the burn pile. Pieces of pine foliage and other small branch pieces ended up in the burn can versus the brush pile. I was able to keep the incoming flow of tree shit moving in order to keep the can going, sometimes having to let the stuff start burning more before throwing more on top since I didn't want the fire to go out. While letting that stuff catch more, I went back to stacking more stuff onto the brush pile and the firewood pile. To make matters worse all of this went on while it was periodically misting outside, which wasn't too serious, but because it had already rained the night before, the ground all through the area that I had to go through was a slop pit. This of course had my pants wet from the ankles to just below the knee and my shitty yard shoes were soaked along with my socks, making for an uncomfortable time while working on this stuff. Because of all this moisture, the brush pile was hard to really catch despite having some garbage under all of the brush and even dumping some oil and gas mixture on the brush. The stuff burned some while the garbage was burning but still didn't fully catch, even with the heat drying things out at the core. I'll just have to let this stuff sit a while to dry out, even with possible rains coming and going. As can be seen in the last pic, there are still plenty of tree trunks and large sections of trees that will make for some good cuts of firewood. While waiting for the brush pile to dry out and for us to generate more burnable garbage, I will end up making the cleanup of the fallen trees consist only of cutting up the trunks and maybe even start cutting some of the firewood pile into smaller usable pieces to stack on the main firewood pile behind the house. Of course while the brush is drying out (this includes what still remains on the ground), I will be working on other projects around the homestead. I have a customer's car that I have to work on soon as the parts come in, plus I have plans to start breaking down the 65 Mustang so I can stack parts on the shelves in the garage and get the body ready for moving to an area where I can start working on it to get it ready for mounting on the Ranger frame that is visible in the pics next to the firewood stack. The work continues....
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