Clearing the Woods

The bulldozer came on Friday, and knocked down a path for a driveway. The days following have been filled with cutting trees and burning brush. Between Jim and Tim, all the trees for the driveway are cut and hauled out. (Captions are on top of each pic)


The orange paint indicates the southern boundary of the driveway.



Tim on the tractor with the bush hog getting rid of the smaller growth.



This is a 'before' picture of the area where the garage and driveway circle will be located.



The bulldozer!

The start of a driveway! Yay!

Lots of trees to push over and/or cut down!

A nice, long, windy driveway through the woods- perfect!

We have LOTS of vines to get rid of. Not good. Some of the trees have really been strangled. We have a whole project in and of itself just de-vining and cleaning up the land to get the trees healthy.

The bulldozer just knocked down some trees and left them in the path for us to haul out.

One of the half-way 'after' pictures of where the driveway will come up and meet with the garage.

And just because every good job site needs a super in a chair...

Burning the brush with the Elmo potty in the background. Don't leave home without the potty.

Big brush pile!

Gigi loves playing in any dirt she can find. We chopped, cut, and burned, and she dug holes.

Two hard workers taking a break!

And clearly having too much fun!

All the cutting that took place over the past couple days. The stumps are left so the bulldozer and come and push them out. We'll haul them away afterwards.