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April 30 - The Campfire Trail - All That For This

April 30, 2024

Day 942 of the Adventure

What started back in mid-February has finally reached a pinnacle. The platform for the greenhouse is complete. Well, almost. It's complete enough to park a tractor on top of it. It was one of those things I could have easily liked to have had done earlier. The Problem...... There were trees standing there, then there were raised beds to build, before the perimeter fence could be constructed. (due to the ability to dig post holes before we fenced the tractor out) Then, there was all of the planting that needed done to get the growing started. FINALLY, with all of that out of the way........ Greenhouse time. Actually, greenhouse landing building time. The place we chose for the greenhouse dropped roughly three feet over the twenty four or so, feet of length I had planned for the level landing. The rock haul lasted almost two days. The small tractor did its best, but without the backhoe riding on the back of it, the weight displacement made it very front-heavy when loaded with a bucket of rock. Many a time, I scooped up a load only to lift the back wheels off the ground rather than the front loader bucket. To compound matters, lifting the front loader while full would shift the center of gravity high enough to make the whole thing very tipsy. The only solution was smaller loads, slower speeds, driving with the full bucket only about an inch off the ground and a lot of "Sweating of Bullets". Even with those precautions, making the turn into the garden on a slightly sideways incline was still nerve wracking. The much lighter weight post hole digger was the only counter-balance to the back of the tractor and it was tall enough that I'm not sure it helped or hurt the whole center of gravity dynamic. Once the platform was about half done, we were finally able to drill the last of the post holes and get the corner of the fence installed. After that, I removed the post hole digger and replaced it with a box blade and added a couple of big chunks of firewood for additional weight. A little hillbilly engineering did the trick and made the operation much less hazardous. I believe I can say farewell to the frazzled nerves of the project and get back to the fun of it all!

Carry On

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