8-20-09 The BOL – Land Clearing

Land Clearing 2

Early Stages of the land being cleared with Equipment

Well, lets continue on the saga of how my personal little slice of heaven came into existence and developed into what it is now. Probably restating the obvious, we wouldn’t really need to say we began clearing the land. I’ll say it anyway… “We began by clearing the land!”  Really it wasn’t all that difficult to get the process started. I mentioned yesterday that we had this dirt track that ran through our woods, this made the obvious location of what would be our future driveway. The land is laid out in roughly a square of 10 acres and I wanted to try to stay as far to one side of the property as possible, without giving up to much privacy if we ended up with a close neighbor at some point in the future. HOPEFULLY – NOT! Now I’m from the suburbs so a 1/2 acre lot would be concidered large, this is 10 acres in the sticks and is thought to be on the small side. I digress, we planned an area to one side of the driveway and began taking out alot of the smaller trees. As this space opened up we could start getting a real good lay of the land. What seemed like an area just barely large enough to comfortably park an RV on, turned out to be large enough to locate the future home in? It’s strange how someone new at this stuff could have so underestimated the size of the clearing he had made? I guess it must be the proportions are so much different than I was used to? Well, as anyone who has ever dreamed of having a property like this knows, I already had the entire project laid out in my head. In my minds eye I could see where I wanted the house, barn, workshop and gardens, etc. This “Minds Eye” view didn’t mean much to my “Dirt Guy” though… By “Dirt Guy”, I mean the nice man that cashes all those checks that seemed to be required to make my minds eye view come more clearly into reality. Truth be told, my Dirt Guy, is actually a VERY nice man and has proven to be one of the greatest assets in making this all happen. Not being from the Country or familiar with the operation of heavy equipment, a trusted person to take care of these larger jobs really was crucial. SIDE NOTE – I do plan to fix both, the being from the country and knowing how to operate heavy equipment as soon as possible! It took a little explaining to my new friend and he was off making adjustments on my land to prepare for all of this country finery I had proposed. Finery, like driveways and septic drain fields, you know, the luxuries! Oh well,  I guess that kind of fills you in on what happened next. I’ll keep the details coming in the next post and I think you’ll get the jist of it by the time I’m done. I really do plan to get the videos rolling in the near future and than I can take you on a real tour of the joint but just remember I’m not to keen on the prospect of having neighbors to close so don’t get any ideas!