After clearing up the south fence line of all the crap we had stored along the fence, I turned my attention to the wood/PVC pipe storage rack that is tacked up against a dead tree and the west fence. The rack, just like the auto parts racks, is degrading heavily, so it'll be cut up once everything is cleared. As for the stuff to be cleared, miscellaneous pieces of wood are stored that I have to sort through, as some of this wood is also degrading to a degree and would not be viable pieces for use in future projects. A lot of this wood is short cut pieces of posts, several pallet pickets, and different lengths of old 2x4's, among other wood. There's several pieces of PVC pipe of different lengths and sizes that I also have to sort through. The older wood will obviously be cut up for firewood but the wood that I'll be keeping will be relocated to the north end of the compound, where all the other crap has been moved. Another thing that had to be addressed is a small stack of pallets and old sections of porch railing I saved after dismantling the old porch from the side of the house. Our friend who the DOB truck belongs to needed pallets to prop up alongside his house which is on posts as part of a method of covering up open spots along the crude skirting, so he requested pallets. I figured he might be able to make use of these old porch rails for the same application as well. I can't do anything with them as they are degrading more so than I would be comfortable with when it comes to reusing any old wood item. If I kept them, they'd end up being cut up for more firewood. So along with the pallets, the porch rails were loaded up on the trailer, destined to be hauled out in the next couple days. As I sorted through the wood, I focused on the heavy stuff first, as this stuff would end up on the ground temporarily. I did have a couple small pallets that were of the size that would make them suitable for standing an engine on, so these were saved as well. I had to find a suitable place to start staging wood so I ended up picking a spot along the west chicken yard fence. I stacked the two small pallets and the larger pieces of wood that I started with. Several short cuts of posts, some short 2x10/12 cuts and a large wood panel were stacked along the fence. I started moving the pallet pickets next. I was able to weed out some older pieces of posts, pickets and short pieces of 2x4 before finishing up the top and middle racks. I still have the bottom rack which has the longer pieces of 2x4's, the two 2x8's I used for mounting the Truckstang body on the drums, and a bunch of PVC pipe. When I do start sorting through the PVC, I'm more than likely going to be moving all the PVC since there's really nothing that can be weeded out from PVC. It's going to be a matter of trying to come up with some quick and practical uses for the pipe so as to lessen the amount of scrap pipe that has to be stored. At least now when I do clear this rack of everything and cut the thing up, we will be ready to pull the fence. There's still the matter of those couple pieces of iron pipe around the old south fence line but these are those wild card items that even though I don't have any real use for them, I can't bring myself to just scrap the stuff. I'll probably try to sell this crap more so, just to get them out of the way. But as for the rest of the area, once everything is cleared, I'll take a moment to chop up all the stumps to further clear the area. This will be a case of getting the area back to just a plain grass field, so I'll be doing what I can to clear everything from the area, including the old fence posts, which will also be chopped at ground level. The work continues.
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