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Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Cleanup
The Circuit Court providing several dumpsters around the county has been
working great. The one they placed about 1/2 mile from our house has
been filled twice. We added a bunch of junk to it ourselves. I've even
hauled an old coke machine down there and dumped it for one of our
neighbors.
I have been using a saws-all to cut the old shed we
knocked down into small pieces and putting those pieces on the trailer
behind the Mule. Then I have hauled those pieces across the road to the
fire pit and burnt them. I have kept the fire going for three days
without having to restart it, I just threw pieces on the ashes and it
started burning again. Linda mowed behind the house trailer while I was
cutting and picking up the shed pieces. She burnt the last pieces of the
shed while I used the scoop on the tractor to scrape the ground into
piles of dirt. I tried to scrape the nails and pieces of debris into
those piles too. Then I scooped up the dirt piles and dumped them in the
ditch as fill dirt. I'm hoping the dirt will pack down and not be washed
away when we get hard rains, but either way the nails and debris will be
away from the hay shed. Hopefully this will let me avoid flat tires. I
picked up a tractor scoop of creek gravel and spread it where the shed
was located as the area looked a little low.