Papaw's Tractor.....YAAAAAAY!!!

We borrowed a tractor from my Papaw Bill December 8 and was able to keep it for a week. We got SOOOO MUCH work done in that week. What we got done in that week with the tractor was about how much work we would have got done in a month, doing it by hand.
Wednsday, The Meltons helped for a few hours....Thank you Brian & Shawna!! :)
Thursday, Tony Sinyard helped us. We were able to cut down 12 'big' pines. Chuck used the tractor to push on the trees, while Tony used the chain saw to cut them down. That was awesome.



Our land is changing so much. Its so exciting!

Clearing land by hand....AKA VERY HARD WORK

These 3 pictures were taken right after Larry Raper cut most of the pines.

This is a picture showing about where our house will sit.












This is the side view and side/front corner.












These picture shows what Chuck and I have done from October 8th till December 8th, right before we borrowed the tractor.

Bringing Back the Old Days

After many tries of finding someone to cut our pines, We found the best of all....Mr. Larry Raper. He is a one man and two mules loggin team!! We were all very excited to have him cut our pines. One of the reason we loved him cutting our logs, was that there was a much less chance of him hurting our big beauitful oaks we have on our lot and not to mention, it was REALLY neat to watch.
He came out Monday morning September 27 and cut about half the pines off our lot with his chain saw. He came back the next morning and brought his 2 mules and skidded the logs out and then loaded them on his truck.

The picture above is of Mr. Larry sharpening his chain saw and all the pines thats fixing to GO!!!




This picture is of a pine falling!
SO EXCITING!!!



Below, Chuck working so hard! Thank you honey!!












Below, Mr. Larry Raper and his "team"....Byrd & Belle.

Closed on our land

This is a picture of the side veiw. If you walk to the right, you'll run into Shoemaker road, and to the left are woods.

This is a front corner view. The paved road you see in the bottom right corner is Shoemaker Road.

After looking at several pieces of land, Chuck and I agreed on Lot 17 in Jacob Creek.

We are IN LOVE with it!! We have drove by it, it seems like a million times!!! LOL!

We closed on it Thursday August 12.

Its 1 acre and filled with timber.

Our next step is to find someone who will clear the pine trees.

We then, will start working on the land ourselves.

We won't start building our home till the spring of 2012. That will give us plenty of time to get our land exactly how we want it.

We are so excited and looking forward to this journey!