Shiloh

We did some “hands-on” clearing of the land . . . enough to get back to the home site. Because of time constraints we choose to use a bulldozer to clear the home site itself. As with all of this, we could have done it by hand.

The grading happened on Tuesday, August the 25th.  The previous Saturday, while we were working with the well digger, Jason and his brother came out to the land to take a look at things. Turns out his bulldozer had a 10 foot blade. Wow! Nothing wimpy about this monster. I think we wasted some serious time cutting the road in..he could have done it in five minutes on his way into the house site. C’est la vie I suppose.

In the space of a couple of hours he knocked over a dozen or so trees..a couple of which are pretty big . . and leveled out the building sight. Although I never took a picture of it, the largest and most annoying was an old oak tree that was probably at least two feet in diameter. My father-in-law and I cut on it one Saturday for quite some time and managed to make a notch in it before the chainsaw stopped. Jason ended up having to dig a pretty big hole to get it down, but it was still significantly faster than our efforts.  Best money I have spent in a while!

If you remember from my previous post, this was the area before work began…

The ‘dozer brand matches my work boots (Cat). Must be why it works so well:

One side of the cleared area . . .

There are times when you can use your money wisely to speed this process along immensely. This would be one of those times!!