After over a week of moving junk from one end of the yard to the other in a long slow process, I finally managed to get the south fence line clear. Save for a few large items, namely a couple large iron tubes, the area is totally clear. There are some tree stumps that I will end up chopping down flush with the ground so it'll be easier to run over with a mower. Of course one would ask, where did all the crap go that was stored over in this area? Well there is a multi-part process to how the junk was stored, or otherwise staged. First is the sheet metal. I managed to save up a large batch of different sized pieces of sheet metal, salvaged from appliances and things like cabinets and the like. Because the next project that will use up a large amount of sheet metal will be the 46 Ford, it only made sense to move all the sheet metal over to where that car is, staging it close. I ended up putting all the sheet metal in the Elco's bed, due to the fact its parked in front of the 46 Ford. Other "sheet" metal, namely corrugated roofing metal, which was in small pieces, was moved over to the scrap pile since there was no practical use for these pieces. The larger pieces of roofing metal were moved over to the build site where I'll be building the new storage building, along the northwest fence line area. This is also the same area where all the auto parts, tires and other miscellaneous scrap metal are being stored. The larger pieces of roofing metal were staged here as they could be used for covering sections like the triangular section at the top under the roof, or between the door and wall corner. Either way, when we do build this structure, any of this metal that isn't used will be immediately moved to the scrap pile as there won't really be any practical use for the stuff. As for the miscellaneous scrap, this stuff consisted of short pieces of tubing, whether conduit, fence tubing or other thin-walled tubing. I saved this stuff as there may be applications that require me to make some kind of frame or structure for other devices I may build. Some other mid-range sized pieces of roofing metal were also stored against the fence for possible use in other applications that might require these sized pieces of metal. The thing is, it's not certain that any of this metal will be used in any kind of process, so it's really more of a "purgatory" for these pieces of metal. I'm giving the stuff a little more time before I can decide whether this metal can be used in a future project or just end up in the scrap pile later on. We'll see. As stated, the south fence line is cleared and pretty much ready for removal. Soon, I'll be getting fence posts and concrete to sink in the ground behind the Storage Trailer so I can then start removing sections of the south fence to relocate to that new point. At the same time a couple fence panels on the west fence that meet up with the soon to be southwest corner will also be removed so they can be relocated to the east fence to cover the couple spaces connecting to the east gate. I do still have to clear the wood/PVC rack, which is my next target. Some pallets and a couple ladders will also need to be moved. With the majority of the crap moved to the north side of the compound, I stand back and look at the arrangement and am actually satisfied with the layout since everything isn't just stacked and piled in an organized mess. Again, a lot of this stuff is in purgatory, since I my still end up scrapping a lot of this stuff later on after determining that its useless to me. But for now, everything is staged as neatly as I can store it, still leaving plenty of room in the area since everything is staged along the fence line, standing up or stacking a lot of items to capitalize on vertical space. One of the biggest concerns with any homestead/farmstead/shop area is the idea that when one allows themselves to accumulate too much crap, it causes one to go down a rabbit hole of needing to make more outbuildings, storage racks, etc to accommodate these items. Of course as for me, this means actually taking the time to utilize any and all of the things we've accumulated so as to lessen the storage burden so there won't be any need to build extra facilities. Even the storage building that I plan on building along the northwest fence line will be a small fraction of the size of the original frame that I disassembled from behind the Storage Trailer. The same rules apply, don't plan on storing too much crap. I have a vision as to what will need to be stored, which is a relatively small amount of items, most of which need to be stored within to get them out of the areas where they're currently stored. Items like the power tools I have, which are sitting in the house in a staging area along with battery chargers and the like, would be located to the storage building. My electric ATV project, once completed, would go within. One of the go karts we have that I do decide to hang on to, would go within. The John Deere Yard Tractor would go within. The electric mower would go within. The generator would go within. These items are items that I need to put under cover, but with the vision I have for the storage building, and how I plan on arranging things, even shelves and other ways of storing items vertically, I determined that the storage building will not need to be large at all. So far I'm looking at an 8x8 building, small enough to not be too taxing to build but big enough to do the job asked of it.
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