Despite what you see above, there was no actual hurricane. Last week, our G.C. (general contractor), Walter Heitmann (above), officially began work on our site. We had met with him previously to go through and mark which trees go, and which stay. The above photo was taken looking at the home site, looking northwest. Clearing is a delicate process because once you cut a tree down, you can't put it back. Obviously we'll need to clear the immediate area around the footprint of the house. As for the surrounding area, we don't want some huge artificial clearing, but we'd like to clear enough so that 1) trees don't one day fall on our house, and 2) we have enough sunlight shining into the house and on the yard area. So we are doing this in stages. When we went up on Saturday, we marked some more as keepers, and some as gone-ers (I don't know how to spell that). This week, Walter and his team will be chipping up all of the smaller felled trees and brush, and putting aside the larger ones to dry so we can make furniture out of them - we have mostly white oak and pine, and i think some hemlock? So, this will be the process until we are happy with the rough landscape - clear enough for the house and yard area, then gradually thinning out the surrounding land. Hopefully in another week or two, we can start excavating! Here are some more pictures - click on them to enlarge:
Despite what you see above, there was no actual hurricane. Last week, our G.C. (general contractor), Walter Heitmann (above), officially began work on our site. We had met with him previously to go through and mark which trees go, and which stay. The above photo was taken looking at the home site, looking northwest. Clearing is a delicate process because once you cut a tree down, you can't put it back. Obviously we'll need to clear the immediate area around the footprint of the house. As for the surrounding area, we don't want some huge artificial clearing, but we'd like to clear enough so that 1) trees don't one day fall on our house, and 2) we have enough sunlight shining into the house and on the yard area. So we are doing this in stages. When we went up on Saturday, we marked some more as keepers, and some as gone-ers (I don't know how to spell that). This week, Walter and his team will be chipping up all of the smaller felled trees and brush, and putting aside the larger ones to dry so we can make furniture out of them - we have mostly white oak and pine, and i think some hemlock? So, this will be the process until we are happy with the rough landscape - clear enough for the house and yard area, then gradually thinning out the surrounding land. Hopefully in another week or two, we can start excavating! Here are some more pictures - click on them to enlarge:
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