If you ask Clyde, he will tell you that it is impossible to have enough shop space. So it comes as no surprise that he's adding more buildings to his shop compound. You may think that three shops would provide plenty of space, you'd be wrong of course.
The space between the two shops will be the location of the newest space. Phase one of the project is to take down the trees.
He took down a couple by just shoving them over with the excavator.
Then he got out the chainsaw to do some falling.
Clyde says you don't have to be too good of a timber faller when you have an excavator there.
He made some cuts,
got in the machine
and pushed the tree over.
Of course a real logger would consider this cheating.
Then he had to limb the trees.
Walking down the length of the tree with a chain saw can be tricky.
So, this was all last weekend's project.
This weekend, Clyde had to call in the professional.
Our neighbor, Colin came over to fall the rest of the trees that were a little bit trickier.
Colin made it look easy.
Then he hooked his tape to the end of the log to measure it
while he was limbing the tree.
And then he cut it to saw length. Those spruce trees have a lot of limbs.
Koira eventually came over to investigate what all the racket was about.
Meanwhile, Clyde was ripping out the stumps with the excavator.
Decking the logs...
and sorting the brush.
(The sun finally decided to make an appearance too.)
A little more limbing to do on the logs.
And stopping to pose for picture.
Really he was asking me, "is lunch ready yet?"
Now there's a big clearing between the two shops but still a lot more work to do.
Just another weekend project around here.
