Today I continued the work on the work on the kennel garden area, working on clearing the fence from behind the kennel. This is necessary since the fence is in the way of me being able to install any panels around the side and back of the kennel. Also it will look neater not having this decrepit fence around the kennel. Part of the purpose of this work is to make things look better, neater, and more organized. I had to unscrew the clamps that were used to hold the rotted wood posts from an old fence to the newer metal posts I pounded in the ground next to them. Also there were some eye bolts that I had in place for the wire/tubing setup I had installed on the old dog yard fence to try to keep the dog from climbing the fence. This stuff had to come off the wood posts so I can put said posts on the rack with the salvage wood for use later on, even if its just or future firewood. The metal fenceposts came up and went into the scrap pile that consists of angle iron and piping/tubing. The pipe straps and screws and eye bolts went to their respective bins in the storage trailer hardware racks. The chain link was stored with the salvaged chain link fencing rolls I had from the scrap pile. Some small lengths of chicken wire were folded up into small bundles to be staged with the outgoing scrap metal. I removed the entire remaining chain link fence section, which extended about 10ft past the edge of the kennel, along with the posts as mentioned previously. The chicken wire fence that is the actual garden fence, was removed up to the edge of the kennel, leaving the remaining garden fence in place, butting up to the kennel so the garden remains contained. I also cut the old weed growth from the area around the back of the kennel so the back is free and clear, no shit to get in my way when I do start installing panels around the kennel. I mentioned the chain link fencing that I had staged in another area after removing them from the scrap yard and the back of the kennel greenhouse. At first I was going to put this stuff up for sale to get something for it, same way I did with a bunch of T posts I also dug out from the scrap yard, but I thought of a novel idea, using the chain link to cover the sloppy muddy ground in the area between the house and the garden. This area retains water every time it rains heavily and ends up being a slop pit for a long time after. I wanted to put gravel down but know that it'll take a lot of gravel to get this area filled in enough where I can drive a vehicle over it without it getting stuck. I thought to use the chain link the same way one puts mesh in a concrete slab to reinforce the slab. I figured that by spreading the chain link on the muddy ground then repeatedly walking over the mesh, mushing it into the mud will help build a solid foundation that will take the gravel a lot better when I do spread some out. In the end this will hopefully allow me to get away with less gravel used to fill the grounds in this area. With the chain link taken care of I moved back to the scrap pile. I moved the appliance skins over to the storage trailer and took the reciprocating saw with a metal blade and cut up the skins, making several large sheets of metal that I was able to stack against one of the trees along with other sheet metal and flat sections of metal I removed from the old scrap yard. This included tops from drums, other sheet pieces that were cut from old cabinets, appliance doors, etc. All of this material took up a lot of ground space in the old scrap pile but now take up nothing more than two sides of one tree in the small area that is being used for staging my future scrap. I also moved several other large scrap items and other smaller pieces that I determined to be useless to me. My outgoing scrap pile is growing much bigger and very soon will be plenty big enough for me to fill both the bed of the F250 and the trailer to net the maximum volume of scrap material. As of right now the old scrap yard is thinning out really well.
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