Strawbale Album Part 10. Snodgrass clean up etc.

Part 10

Then we salvage the neat old wood, the window frame for a shed wall as a sort of souvenir, and the tin for a porch on my log shed

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Getting closer!

This is after the first salvage and removal

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March 16 more snow

We also need to move our sawmill to lower ground to cut the black walnut logs stored in the lower shed and to clean the land around out hous

Even more snow...

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Well it would not budge so I had to throw a sledge hammer at a vulnerable spot instead and then jump out of the way as fast as I could

Grandpa Charlie's crashed gator.....He neglected to put the brake on while parking on a hill

Working in sub-freezing conditions just means dressing adequately. It is actually quite enjoyable and refreshing

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Look like the Bobcat has be patrolling again

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Two by sixes.jpg.jpg.jpg.jpgfrom this sycamore log.jpg It is a lot like pine wood

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I can now lock up my tools in our log shed

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This is how the house looked just before we began clean up

Working in sub-freezing conditions just means dressing adequately. It is actually quite enjoyable and refreshing

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Grandpa Charlie's crashed gator.....He neglected to put the brake on while parking on a hill

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A lot of clean up still to do after the woods were cleared 3 years ago.jpg I never run out of work in this type of project

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I begin cleaning up the remaining logs by milling what is millable.jpg Here is some nice cedar boards for the house interior

Snow beginning to build in March

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Next we plan to burn the brush and debris from the old forest clean up and eventually we will burn the rotten wood in the house

March 16..

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Sawmill moved also to its new site by the lower shed

Now I set the house ablaze

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Next project is to pull down the old Snodgrass house which is now dangerous and about to fall on anyone who walks around it.jpg We try a rope.jpg