Little pond

[tylermckee]

looking at the south east corner. All the woods behind the machine will be coming down within the next few months to make way for ~60 lots

[tylermckee]

looking slightly north west.

[tylermckee]

overflow swale that heads into the existing storm drain. Its only a temp. pond untill the development is done, then we'll build a house in the hole.

[Dozerboy]

So is it a silt basin for rain water run off, did you dig it with that miniX?

[tylermckee]

So is it a silt basin for rain water run off, did you dig it with that miniX?
Yup, thats all it is. Its no 345, but i wouldnt call it a mini, its a 160, I guess the pic makes it look smaller.

[Grader4me]

That is a very nice looking job:yup

[DKinWA]

I'm sitting here trying to figure out where this is at and it looks like either Bellingham or the Hood Canal area. Am I close?

[tylermckee]

I'm sitting here trying to figure out where this is at and it looks like either Bellingham or the Hood Canal area. Am I close?
Anacortes

[tylermckee]

Its about 45 minutes south of bellingham if you dont know where anacortes is, its a pretty small town.
That pond was 2 days work from laying it out to seeding the area, would have been a little faster but you should have seen the slop i was digging through. It was some nasty stuff.

[Wolf]

What are you gonna use to pull out all those trees, Tyler? Can you sell the timber? Recycle it? Burn it? Trash it?

[tylermckee]

We are having a logger come in and drop and haul out the timber on the first stage of the development (were doing a culdesac with ~10 lots first, then up the hill from there are the other 50) He'll bring in a dozer with a winch to pull the trees where he wants them and yard them out of the forest. We would have cleard it ourselves but there is a lot of big nasty maple and cedar trees right by that house in the first pic, not to mention the upper power lines in the first pic are VERY important. Once he gets the timber out we'll come in and clean up the brush and rip out the stumps and get to stripping some top soil and laying some pipe. the logger should be starting end of next week.

[Wolf]

Just wondering. Are you leaving in any of the mature trees for the new development, or will you clear out everything and then replant all new stuff once the development is set and the houses are constructed?

[tylermckee]

Just wondering. Are you leaving in any of the mature trees for the new development, or will you clear out everything and then replant all new stuff once the development is set and the houses are constructed?
Boss wants to try to save a few of the smaller cedars, and maybe some trees on the outskirts of the property, but pretty much everything is coming down.

[CascadeScaper]

I'm surprised the leaf licker liberals aren't after you for cutting those trees down! Thankfully, on the east side of the state our tree density isn't nearly as heavy as what you're dealing with up there, so logging for us usually isn't needed.

[tylermckee]

usually we get a bunch of crap from neighbors when we take down trees. I usually ask them where they live, they usually say up the road or down the street, then i ask them "and how do you think your house was built?"

Youre missing out, taking down big trees is the funnest part of this job, just ask wolf!

[Wolf]

Did you start ripping out those trees yet?

How is it going?

Any comments/interaction from the leaf lickers (love that phrase Cascadescaper)?

[CascadeScaper]

I hear ya, I just finished 90 acres of orchard. What a job! Piled all the trees, let them dry, then torched them. 30 foot tall stacks of dry apple wood burns great! :drinkup

[Wolf]

Wow! 90 acres. That sounds like fun. How long did it take you to rip that all out?

Did you roast marshmallows when you torched the trees? :bouncegri

Are they going to replant the orchard or put in a development?

How long did the trees have to dry before you torched them like that. Sounds like a blast!!!

[CascadeScaper]

It took me 16 days to pull, pile, and burn. The trees dried out for about 2-3 weeks, they burned HOT! A huge pile, and I'm talking huge, 30 feet high and 20 feet in diameter would burn down to nothing in about an hour and 15 minutes. The property is so far from town that development is a long ways out, the "hot" property is closer to civilization. However, they are planting alfalfa to keep their water rights active in the event that down the road a development does become imminent. We have a reputable relationship with the property owner now that we've done the initial clearing, chances are we'll get the development excavation work 10-15 years down the road.