We were assigned to go to the home of a man who needed help clearing brush from his yard. There are two homes on his lot...the one he lives in, and the one here in the picture, which needs to be torn down. The area around the older home was covered with very large trees which needed to be removed. The home itself has a caved in roof on one side. It was evident from the odor as we cleared around the foundation, that things live under that house. Things like skunks. The shingles on the roof are covered with moss. In some areas the shingles are gone, exposing the original cedar shakes. We hauled off a variety of metal pieces and tires. If you look closely you can see the stump of a tree that was growing right up by the side of the house which had entrapped an old metal barrel.
A large dumpster had been brought in to hold the branches and brush we collected but it was not nearly large enough. We also loaded several trailer loads of brush to be hauled to the green waste. When the dumpster got full, some folks climbed in to stomp the brush down so we could fit more in!
The woodworker was happy to find an occasion to dig his peavey out of the tool shed to use in helping to turn the logs while they were sawing them.
Some trees were already on the ground when we got there, but some still needed to come down.
Timber!
The logs were soon placed in a large pile to be used later for firewood. The woodworker and one of his friends were pretty excited to find that one of the downed trees was an apricot tree. Some of those pieces of apricot found their way into the back of the truck to be turned into wood projects someday.
At the end of the project, everyone met back at the park for pizza.
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