Being retired a couple years you'd think I would have gotten to this sooner but I guess we've all got obligations to family and friends too, but not so much now.
I've had a brush pile that originated from some 16 trees that went down in Hurricane Sandy 8 years back. I was working 50-60 hrs a week so it got put off till someday. Well that someday is now.
The brush pile alone was roughly 100' x 20' x 5' high. The area around it was a mess or rotten logs, large firewood worthy logs and scrap lumber. I set to work on the mountain of brush with a little 5hp chipper running it mercilessly for about 6 days, all day.
I ran that poor thing like I was trying to kill it. Don't for the life of me know how its still running.
To tell the whole truth I don't know how "I'm" still running.
I'm thankful for my Biofeeze and heating pad. All that stooping, bending, and lifting left me hurting.
The entire area is under a few inches of chips now and there was a large mound of chips I push up with the grader blade on the Lo-Boy.
I used the SA to drag the big logs and telephone poles off to where I can deal with them. Paula's Cub pulled a 17 cu' cart that I filled with 20+ heaping loads of rotten firewood to dump down a washed out area on a hill in back. I'm using the chips from the mound to fill another deeply washed out area.
Once everything was cleared I set to assembling the second Shelter Logic shed I've been sitting on since last September.
All of this was done solo.
Note that I had already gotten a lot done before I started taking pics.
This was a big project that was hanging around my neck for a long time that was bothering me. Its good to have it done. Its also good to get some tractors out of the weather and have more storage space.
I had already shaved a foot or two of easy to access branches off the top.
In 8 years its amazing how intertwined those things can get making it hard to drag out to a chipper.
This is about 2% of the firewood Sandy left me and about 10% of what was left that had become nonburnable.
Ugly but good wood still for burning. Locust burns hot too.
Lots of room inside but a tall exhaust has to be removed to roll under the door.
The new shed having a rounded roof should shed snow better than the first with an A frame roof.
Snow loads are the biggest enemy of these sheds. Today I repaired and reinstalled the door on the old shed.
That old shed did survive a Hurricane with 120+ mph peak winds.
There used to be a big batch of wild blackberries and raspberries around the log.
I carefully dug it all up and replanted them along the woodline.
There was also and old fence I took down.
That can be seen in the photo above with the logs. The McCormick Deering horse drawn mower sat to the right of the log.
guess that kinda makes sense.
