My son and I are slowly working our way thru our point eight of "useless" property, bush wacking paths and clearing waters. A big hurdle was a large willow that had fallen over my planned path and creek crossing. Last summer a friend of ours with a big chainsaw helped to cut it up and with some solid concrete blocks and heavy duty landscaping pallets we built a nice bridge over the creek. My little man loves going back here, to play in and with the water (there is always some flow) and gets some exercise to boot!
This was last week, when it actually looked like winter! The small creek was still flowing and Simon's big whoop was pushing snow into the water, both from the logs and the bridge.
This is the newest path - which looks a lot easier to hike this way with the thick snow fall, but is actually a mix of mud, water and grass humps. Between snows we've hauled most of our boardwalk pallets down here and have an initial path which come spring when things are not frozen to everything else I'll square off and screw in place. Our completed path goes thru a mix of woods, swamp, scrub (pic above), swamp, woods again and ends at a pond and this winter we finally made it to the back woods!
My son and I are slowly working our way thru our point eight of "useless" property, bush wacking paths and clearing waters. A big hurdle was a large willow that had fallen over my planned path and creek crossing. Last summer a friend of ours with a big chainsaw helped to cut it up and with some solid concrete blocks and heavy duty landscaping pallets we built a nice bridge over the creek. My little man loves going back here, to play in and with the water (there is always some flow) and gets some exercise to boot!
This was last week, when it actually looked like winter! The small creek was still flowing and Simon's big whoop was pushing snow into the water, both from the logs and the bridge.
This is the newest path - which looks a lot easier to hike this way with the thick snow fall, but is actually a mix of mud, water and grass humps. Between snows we've hauled most of our boardwalk pallets down here and have an initial path which come spring when things are not frozen to everything else I'll square off and screw in place. Our completed path goes thru a mix of woods, swamp, scrub (pic above), swamp, woods again and ends at a pond and this winter we finally made it to the back woods!
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