Excavating the Ranch

It was a beautiful sunny February day when we started excavating our "ranch" Monday (Feb 22).

He started on the pad where our house will sit. These are the stumps from trees that were actually growing together. We cut them down cause we didn't want to take a chance of them falling on our house.



He had to take a lot of passes (They were tenacious) to get them loose and then the oak tree stump split.

Eventually he uprooted them and out they rolled, still hugging each other with rocks innertwined in the root ball.









George hooked it to the Tangerine,


and with some extra throttle, he urged it down the hill...










It was following along ....
until.... it rolled over and hung up on this tree.








Cutting in driveway at the far end of the pad - around the boulder and heading for the lower level of the property toward the pole barn.









This was pretty much the end of Day 1.











Across the driveway toward the pole barn....
at the beginning of Day 2.










Stay tuned.
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/joB

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