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9-05 Drive Day 1 002 * Let the destruction begin! John starts by
9-05 Drive Day 1 003 * Speaking of manicuring, Red starts by opening up and smoothing the entrance at the county road. * 640 x 480 * (67KB)
9-05 Drive Day 1 005 * The entrance needed to be laid open and graded down, particularly to accommodate the train of trucks that will soon arrive with gravel for the driveway * 640 x 480 * (58KB)
9-05 Drive Day 1 011 * After Red finishes the entrance, he moves to join John at the entrance to the woods. This is where the
9-05 Drive Day 1 021 * John moves into the woods and heads up to the top of the first ridge. * 630 x 478 * (94KB)
9-05 Drive Day 1 026 * Because the soil is so dry, it is often necessary to dig on each side of the root ball to break the bond before givin' 'em the big shove * 640 x 480 * (94KB)
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9-05 Drive Day 1 027 * After the root ball is loosened, John uses the bucket to give it a shove. The idea is to keep the tree and the root ball intact. If the tree snaps off, the entire process gets more difficult and requires more time....efficiency of movement is the key. * 640 x 480 * (82KB)
9-05 Drive Day 1 032 * And this is exactly why keeping the tree and the root ball intact is so critical. Red runs the dozer back and forth through this entire process of clearing, grabbing the downed trees with the dozer blade and drags each one back to a burn pile. He usually catches the root ball on the corner of the dozer blade and drags the tree along side and behind. * 640 x 480 * (88KB)
9-05 Drive Day 1 033 * Here's a good shot of Red moving inventory. He uses the path that John has created by opening up the woods and drags the trees back to a burn pile. The choreography for this heavy equipment dance is very impressive. * 640 x 480 * (78KB)
9-05 Drive Day 1 034 * Red creates the first burn pile just outside the entrance into the woods * 640 x 480 * (55KB)
9-05 Drive Day 1 035 * This is the stuff that Red does. This is how he compacts all those trees into a tidy campfire. * 640 x 480 * (41KB)
9-05 Drive Day 1 040 * Each time that John takes out a tree (or clump of trees), he carefully moves them to the side of the path that he has just created, one tree at a time. He lines them up and pushes them behind a little to allow Red the room to back in and grab the root ball to take 'em for a ride to the burn pile. * 640 x 480 * (90KB)
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9-05 Drive Day 1 044 * I got a little too close for this shot; this tree just landed when I got the shot. It was a little hard to guess the distance a tree was going to fall in the beginning. Suffice to say that I got better at it. * 640 x 480 * (95KB)
9-05 Drive Day 1 045 * The end of day 1; Red and John have made it the end of the access lane. They have negotiated and removed about 500 feet of forest to get here. Donna looks on with approval. * 640 x 480 * (136KB)
9-05 Drive Day 1 049 * Donna surveys the rough cut drive. We are in awe at the change and how quickly it occurred. * 640 x 480 * (83KB)
9-05 Drive Day 1 051 * looking back toward the burn pile; this is the rough cut entrance. * 480 x 640 * (82KB)
9-05 Drive Day 1 057 * the new entrance * 640 x 480 * (67KB)
9-05 Drive Day 1 059 * At the end of the first day, John and Red have managed to beat thru about 500 feet of forest to create the rough drive. They have gotten to the end of the access lane and are into the main block of the 28 acre parcel. This is the sum total of all the trees they have extracted. Yes, it is a pretty big pile, but appears to be nothing more than a dozen or two trees. This is an illusion. This tight bundle is the result of Red skillfully pushing and packing one hell of alot of trees. * 640 x 480 * (43KB)
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