Why I got the XC70
As you can see, coming up for a working party requires a lot of gear. It all fits nicely into the back of my XC70, without too much effort.
Left to right - sleeping bag, sleeping bag liner, gatorade insulated bag (for drinks for the laborers & EOs), Rubbermaid containers with odds & ends, spotlight (for those pesky squatters!) battery charger/air pump, ultralight tent, and behind the big orange bucket of tools!
Quite happy with my XC70, Mike just got into a WRX for the all-wheel drive sporty side. I’m jealous; used to have a Mitsubishi Eclipse AWD turbo, and his is much more powerful (well, actually it should be when it’s 15 years younger!)
Happy Camper
Land is completely cleared, I’m very happy.
All that’s left is the cleanup, which the crew did just fine on the last day of working.
Helping take a Bite out of crime…
We initially were only going to get rid of the small barn and the storage units, however it was just too much to resist: the urge to completely level every last rotting structure was firing me up. Charlie, the demolition guy, had told me this would happen.
“People get excited when they start seeing progress and just want to continue to get rid of things…”
So we got rid of the spooky structures that were only marginally useful, and the big barn ‘fell down’ during the middle of all this so we got rid of it too! Not to mention the corral and the fencelines going through the middle of the property. One quarter mile in one direction, and two 1/8 mile sections. I pulled out quite a few by hand after the water from our neighbor’s irrigation came through along one of the sections, making it too soggy for the Bobcat to operate.
Razing the dead…
With a bit of luck I was able to schedule in a demolition team two weeks ago, and in three 14 hour days I, two equipment operators and two laborers, totally cleared the property of the last eight structures. This includes the falling-down small barn we were replacing along with the big barn and pumphouse, and several smaller outbuildings. Sketchy people were cutting the locks on a regular basis and even the day prior to me starting on this cut my locks and drove to a storage unit for some unknown purpose. Stash site? No longer.