Sharpened all 3 chains this morning then went down to do a little more trimming. Then I focused on the super crappy fence that the previous owner put up. Its a creative mixture of orange bailing twine, barbed wire, chicken wire, hog panels, and bailing wire with plenty of vegetation woven in for good measure. This section runs about 130' and I still have 50' left to take down. Then, more tree work.
When I bought the place there was what was supposed to be an irrigation runoff ditch that ran through those trees. It was actually just a swamp. I've run a new ditch 6-8' to the east so I'll be filling in this low ground to try to level it out. In the future I'll be adding some evergreens into the mix so that I can eventually get rid of most of the willows and other scrubby brush.
Somewhat unrelated note: Remember a few years back when I was working on that guy's car collection? He's approached me about building him a '66-'67 Nova resto-mod. The example he gave was a Barrett Jackson car that sold for $110k and he's fully aware of what a build like that costs . I'm tempted but it's a pretty huge project, although my current job situation does give me the flexibility to do something like that. We need to talk some more but it's a possibility.
