Burn day!

We've had some issues getting ready to build on the property, but meanwhile, we just keep cleaning up the place.

We have worked all summer to get the piles from last fall...

Last fall

  Into this:

 

We had the piles of waste wood covered to keep dry so we could burn them

Here is a picture and a video of the large burn we did a couple of weeks ago. We are burning mostly un-harvestable wood from the slash piles from last fall's driveway.

How to stack wood

Remember the giant pile of aspen that the excavator piled up last year when roughing in the driveway?

The track hoe can move big trees so easily. It's kind of sad.

That's a lot of aspen.

Well, we've been harvesting it for firewood.  Yes, we know, aspen makes poor fuel, but we either have to cut it small enough to put into burn piles or pay to haul it away. As long as we are handling it, we might as well put it to some good use, eventually, in the wood stove.

So for now we are cutting the logs into 18-inch lengths and stacking out of the way of the future construction site.

We made a 2-minute time lapse video of building one of the stacks.

Wildlife highway

We've been progressing very slowly.  We've got plans for a house and we're going through permitting.

Meanwhile, we've put up a game camera and this is what we are seeing.