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Glad to be finished with this project! Had to totally clear the pad area, and around it. Big oak trees and solid brush... Stakes show house pad area. Then I cleared down the hill through a huge live oak grove.. You can see what a solid wall of brush I was clearing, where my cleared area stops. I plan to keep going and expose the live oaks and other good trees, and get rid of the brush. But for now it's enough. At least until the house is done.
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Nice work! Find anything interesting in the ground? Curious about the foundation, what route are you taking?
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It's going to be a doublewide.
Having base brought in, watered and vibrator rolled in and compacted.
No slab.
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Thanks! I'll sure be glad when all of it is done.
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Move in date? When’s the party?
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
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Move in date? When’s the party? Maybe 2-3 weeks...?? Party starts as soon as we're all moved in!
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Well done !! Looks great !!
Also looks like there could be some Rio gobblers hanging around there somewhere......... 😁
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Well done !! Looks great !!
Also looks like there could be some Rio gobblers hanging around there somewhere......... 😁 I was feeding out back awhile back, and there was a group of 10-12 gobblers out there. I'm surprised I've not heard more gobblers in the area. Usually they light it up in the mornings here this time of year.
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Barry, it's looking good. Gonna be a nice place.
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Barry, it's been so wet here that you couldn't think about doing any dirt work. Looks like you've got things in good shape.
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What do you have for water, drill a well, if so how deep ? It looks dry, we are knee deep in mud !
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Buster passed away last year. The grey one is Buster's brother, Bandit. He's 4 now. The black one is actually a giant schnauzer... Bailey. She just turned 2. Rescued her.
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Barry, it's been so wet here that you couldn't think about doing any dirt work. Looks like you've got things in good shape. Had to dig out a couple of root balls of large trees on the pad site last week. It was powder dry 4 feet down. Need some rain badly.
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What do you have for water, drill a well, if so how deep ? It looks dry, we are knee deep in mud ! The house well will be just a short trench to the new house. About 125 feet from well to hook up. We have 2 wells at the ranch here. Both are drilled to about 120 feet. Water level is at 60 something feet. The one in the pasture has a windmill and 3000 gallon storage tank... I also have a small pond for overflow there, but have it turned off and drying out so that I can dig it out and enlarge it some more. (The cattle like getting in the pond when it's 100+ degrees in the summer. )
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Attach that chandelier real good Barry if any of that Seagram's is still about, the gals just might want to swing on it!
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Too fancy for my blood, Richard! Besides, I think the ceilings will be too low..
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Now Barry, a long tale, they had these big ropes hanging from the ceiling of the old basement gymnasium back in our old school. The notion was to climb them. So there was also a side balcony, some of the youths got the bright idea of swinging a rope up to a waiting coconspirator leaning way over the edge just to grasp the very end of the rope. . Now it is important that the receiver of said rope needed a helper clinging to his belt to keep our Tarzan want-to-be from failing. The idea was for the hero/victim to swing across the space like, well swing. Jack, told Vern, "Now as soon as you get free, get your legs out in front of you, so you don't smack into the brick wall face first". Remember, the low end of that rope had some coil on the floor when straight down. Care to make a guess how that worked out? Lucky the youngster was not paralyzed when he hit that hardwood floor tailbone first.
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