Clearing a Path

Before.  Can you spot the house?

Our helper, Charles, joined us today for the first real day of work on the $1400 house.  We need to get a new roof on the house and get a get a dumpster close to it so we can clean out all the trash and debris.  So today's objective was to take out the old fence in the backyard.

 

The grapple attachment on the Dingle made short work of the fence and made an easy job of taking out the huge posts.  J. made some serious headway on taking down a bunch of the trees, including part of that tree that's preventing you from even seeing the house from the street. 



After.  Wow, there is a house under all that!

A couple of the branches are growing up and over the front porch roof and we were worried they would either hit the neighbors house or bust the window, so we left them until we could get a ladder up there.
 

Charles is scrapping all the metal from the house, including all the old fencing, so it's nice to know it's not going into a dumpster. 

 

Things are looking better already!