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BONFIRE!

BONFIRE!

BONFIRE!     I got the BONFIRE! going on now! I have to burn the Alders I don’t a chipper or other means of mulching them or I certainly would.         So the Bonfire is a way to recycle the Alders ashes to ashes theory!

Burning Alders

Burning Alders

Burning Alders to make room for more, sun came up sky cleared up and I gathered up some dry scrap wood from the Gearshed had a couple cups of coffee and got after it…….               I just  love Bonfires!

Cutting Alders

Cutting Alders

Cutting Alders Opening up the view……     We were really blessed with a beautiful day, I had a haircut appointment then after a quick lunch I fired up the chainsaw and continued cutting Alders         Look at the view starting to open up looking at the next picture compared to this one just […]

Rain and Wind

Rain and Wind

Rain & Wind   Went out to the spit this morning gail force winds on Kachemak Bay so with the rain and wind I’m putting off the Alder cutting we’ll see how it goes. The ferry had the wind blowing NE which was good for this docking at least!         Here Foss […]

Rain Rain Rain

Rain Rain Rain

Rain Rain Rain   While I enjoy the exercise and more than that the improvement in cutting these Alders I don’t like doing it in the pouring rain, so I’m sitting out so far today, we’ll see how it goes. I lined up a dozer and with a back hoe, it even has a 6 […]

Cutting Alder!

Cutting Alder!

Cutting Alder!   Pulling up from the ravine mostly what I cut yesterday to clear paths to cut more. I’ll get quite a bonfire out of these piles, I’m excited!         3 hours later, calling it good for the day might not look like much, but I’ve been going steady at it. […]

Clearing the view

Clearing the view

Clearing the view   Before I started on the project you can see how dense the Alders are even without the leaves.     Now in the next picture below you can see how it is starting to open up the view for the rv sites, I had a visitor show up so after a […]