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How about a view OF my window?
Yup that's our window up there about 1/8 of a mile away. Brie and I own 6.5 acres and when I bought the property it was very over grown. The "natural" look as they like to call it. I call it lazy, we spend almost all of our free time loading up loads of brush, cutting the smaller lower canopy leaving only the top canopy (large trees). 3 years ago it was awful to walk down over that hill, totally over grown woth fallen trees, briars, rocks. It was basically possible and no vehicle to my knowledge has ever been in these bottoms. We built the road down from bringing in dirt and again endless excavation.
From where I am standing in the fisrt picture we are about 200 yds away from the small river that flows through our property. We will be there by the fall even with several boulders, mature fallen trees. My goal is to walk from my house to the river one day bare foot and not say ouch. I wish I had before pictures of this place.
If not washing chips or at the race track then we are "in the bottom" our little slice of heaven. We even cut paths for the neighbors so their children and grand children can enjoy the property, play and swim in the river. (I'm not cleaning their property, but you can definitely tell where the property line is! Lol)
Functioning roads that never existed before, decades or yard waste and trees that Brie and I move by hand and with one little 23 HP tractor. Removing giant stumps and anything in the way
When the pile gets big we load these stumps into trailer and haul them to the dump just like everything we cut that is not fire wood usable. I took 59 trailer loads to the dump my first year here, I will never throw any thing off to the sides or make brush piles, e erything is loaded and hauled out.
Sure an excavation company could come in and probably do the same thing in a weekend with big machines, but we love what we do... no help from anyone just Brie and I dragging ourselves up that hill at sundown knowing we are working on something amazing.
People say "you are just making more work for yourselves,all that additional land you have to keep up with!" I like to look at is as leaving our mark... the kids all love coming and playing on "Mr. Ben's and Ms. Bries place" it is not uncommon to come home and have two families using our play ground or hiking in the woods. It also seems like the wildlife like it as well.
Unfortunately the swap to the deers back is 100 year flood plane and nothing I can do with that, but we clear right up to it, other than the large mature trees.
When Chubbs told Happy Gilmore to "go to your happy place!" This is my happy place and it's right outback! I hope you all have your own version of that someday! People ask me all the time "how do you commute 1 1/2 hours each way everyday. That would drive me insane!" Well I love what I am going home to! I spent 9 years in a townhouse living the semi city life, I grew up in the woods and had to get back to it, I was dying inside without woods to call our own.
Yup that's our window up there about 1/8 of a mile away. Brie and I own 6.5 acres and when I bought the property it was very over grown. The "natural" look as they like to call it. I call it lazy, we spend almost all of our free time loading up loads of brush, cutting the smaller lower canopy leaving only the top canopy (large trees). 3 years ago it was awful to walk down over that hill, totally over grown woth fallen trees, briars, rocks. It was basically possible and no vehicle to my knowledge has ever been in these bottoms. We built the road down from bringing in dirt and again endless excavation.
From where I am standing in the fisrt picture we are about 200 yds away from the small river that flows through our property. We will be there by the fall even with several boulders, mature fallen trees. My goal is to walk from my house to the river one day bare foot and not say ouch. I wish I had before pictures of this place.
If not washing chips or at the race track then we are "in the bottom" our little slice of heaven. We even cut paths for the neighbors so their children and grand children can enjoy the property, play and swim in the river. (I'm not cleaning their property, but you can definitely tell where the property line is! Lol)
Functioning roads that never existed before, decades or yard waste and trees that Brie and I move by hand and with one little 23 HP tractor. Removing giant stumps and anything in the way
When the pile gets big we load these stumps into trailer and haul them to the dump just like everything we cut that is not fire wood usable. I took 59 trailer loads to the dump my first year here, I will never throw any thing off to the sides or make brush piles, e erything is loaded and hauled out.
Sure an excavation company could come in and probably do the same thing in a weekend with big machines, but we love what we do... no help from anyone just Brie and I dragging ourselves up that hill at sundown knowing we are working on something amazing.
People say "you are just making more work for yourselves,all that additional land you have to keep up with!" I like to look at is as leaving our mark... the kids all love coming and playing on "Mr. Ben's and Ms. Bries place" it is not uncommon to come home and have two families using our play ground or hiking in the woods. It also seems like the wildlife like it as well.
Unfortunately the swap to the deers back is 100 year flood plane and nothing I can do with that, but we clear right up to it, other than the large mature trees.
When Chubbs told Happy Gilmore to "go to your happy place!" This is my happy place and it's right outback! I hope you all have your own version of that someday! People ask me all the time "how do you commute 1 1/2 hours each way everyday. That would drive me insane!" Well I love what I am going home to! I spent 9 years in a townhouse living the semi city life, I grew up in the woods and had to get back to it, I was dying inside without woods to call our own.
