Breezy Ridge Farm 2014 Project to date (Photos)

[mike69440]

I realized I have not taken any pictures of my logging road. I've been just too busy scrambling to get firewood for the winter. my poor old excavator needs a little TLC once I walk in out of the wood, before winter.

Major work this year was:

AFTER THE SNOW MELTED
Add risers to septic tank.

Get the gardens ad greenhouses built and reinforced.

Build the aviary (Doubles as our Zombie Cage)

Built the cow camp. Finished the culverts across the field so the little moo-moos would not get there hooves wet.

Getting new Chicken hotel ready. Note what I did to the bolt on forks to pick up that sucker. Measures 12'4" x 8'8" , built like a tornado shelter, and after insulating, wiring & paneled, weighs a good ton!

I do not get on the forum much anymore, but like to check in now and then.

 

[EddieWalker]

Did you do all that rock work around the house? That's VERY IMPRESSIVE!!!


Eddie

 

[TomSeller]

Loafing shed with a window view for the cattle. Nice.

 

[300UGUY]

Pretty impressive chicken hotel. I insulated mine, because I had some left over insulation, but I have the only insulted chicken coop around here. Is it useful in NH?

 

[mike69440]

Did you do all that rock work around the house? That's VERY IMPRESSIVE!!!


Eddie

Yes I did with a lot of help from the wife, my PC-75UU@ excavator & L39 TLB.
Now that I turned 60 and look what we done in the last 9 years turning the place from a wooded ridge to a home & farm, I say once is enough!

 

[Msamt]

Looks great, up on a windy ridge myself...

 

[Paul Thornton]

Nice job!

L2800 w/FEL - 72" Land Pride rake

 

[mike69440]

Pretty impressive chicken hotel. I insulated mine, because I had some left over insulation, but I have the only insulted chicken coop around here. Is it useful in NH?

Place is all insulated, paneled, and wired with lights and outlets outside and in. **** thing used more than 4 rolls of R13

 

[hunterridgefarm]

Mike,
Like you I don't have time to get on the forum much. Your place and work looks great.

I work with a couple of guys from NH and other than the winters they talk about all the rocks. Did you harvest all the rock from your property?

David

 

[mike69440]

Re: Breezy Ridge Farm 2014 Project to date (Photos) rocks

Mike,
Like you I don't have time to get on the forum much. Your place and work looks great.

I work with a couple of guys from NH and other than the winters they talk about all the rocks. Did you harvest all the rock from your property?

David

The basic geology is galical till with bare spots of ledge. A few years ago, only 10.000 or so this, place was under hundreds of feet of ice. so there is a lot of varied rocky mixture that were carried by the ice, while the bedrock & native ledge is granite or crappy sandstone like rock.

Harvest all the rock, I could not live so long!


http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/projects/246050-fun-rocks-dirt-photos.html?highlight=

 

[mike69440]

Walk with my dog, found my excavator! Breezy Ridge Farm 2014 Project to date (Photos)

My excavator is parked at the end of my partially completed perimeter logging road around our Pasture.

Took Jake for a walk yesterday and I brought the camera, taking some shots of the progress I made this year.

The gravel part of the road was started in 2011. This year I only burned a tank of fuel in the excavator, as working full time and other things going on about the farm (building the Chicken Hotel, greenhouse & Cow Shed) cuts into my dirt playtime.

 

[300UGUY]

Nice place. You have done a lot of work there.

 

[lutt]

Really nice work Mike. You have been really busy. The only down time I get is when I'm out here on these old towboats, and that's 30 days out her on the old Mississippi, but while home I'm pretty busy! You got here coming together well, I need to build a chicken coop for sure. And I'm glad to see your concerned for your cows hoofs being wet. You won't have to worry about foot rot if they stay dry ! LUTT

 

[mike69440]

Walk with dog, down logging Road (More Photos)

Along the road I have several cutouts to the backyard and pasture. After the last cutout, the road turns form bought gravel to fill supplied by town free. Its ditch gravel, after I clean out the trash and larger rock, I use it for road fill and top cover. It is better than the clay and rock stuff from the forest floor.

 

[mike69440]

Re: Walk with dog, down logging Road (Photos)

I dug a trench with the Kubota L39TLB and filled it with rock where the seasonal stream crosses the road. Took at least 3 yards of rock to fill it.

 

[Msamt]

Very nice. I have to get on the town delivey route for fill here!

 

[mike69440]

Walked/ Fixed Electric Fence line, Cleared some small trees & stacked in a 1/6 Cord.

Got out today to walk & fix our electric fence line, then cleared some small trees & stacked in a 1/6 Cord.

It sure is nice to have a partial logging road as opposed to stumbling through the woods.

After fixing the fence line from being trampled by not so little and feisty calf, We took the RTV back to where I had to call it quits building the road around the pasture and cut a few more trees.
Except for two, the trees we mostly dead fall .
Then after stacking the wood in the basement to give a it chance to dry some, finally took the dog for a walk.

 

[wmonroe]

Beautiful place.

 

[EddieWalker]

Thanks for the updates. I didn't recognize your house in the first post that I replied to, but I sure did in the other pics!! Nice to see that you are hard at it and the place keeps getting nicer and nicer.

Eddie