2018 Photo Project January 9, 2018

 

 

 

 

Photo #9

Russell made short work burning all

the piles and piles of cut Manzanita.

It's good to get that done and off our to-do list.

 

 

Photo #9.5

 

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Russell's Burn Pile January 2, 2018

 

2018 Photo Project

Photo #2

 

Russell's Manzanita burn pile.

We have 10.5 acres and there is a lot

of Manzanita that needs to be thinned

since it can be a fire hazard.
Russell has thinned quite a bit and now we are just
 waiting for a permissible burn day.

Since we have been fogged in for about a week

the poor air quality does not allow us to burn.

Meanwhile Russell keeps cutting it back and

making more burn piles.
Here's a close-up photo of one of those burn piles.

2018 Photo Project
Photo #2.2

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Shadow Shot Sunday December 3, 2017

It's finally safe to burn all the manzanita

accumulated this summer. Every year we

have to cut back this underbrush to lessen wildfires. 

Then we wait for the county to determine

 if it is safe to burn all the debris. 

It only took us one day to do this! Now we can relax!

Have a great weekend!

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PS I took the header photo yesterday around 5:38pm PST

Weapon of Massive Fires

Today was the big day for finishing up the Manzanita

removal project that was started last May of 2012. 

With the help of Todd and Tim of Cut-Wright

and their amazing machine short work was made

of the remaining burn piles!

Tim had about 6 fires going simultaneously

and Russell kept moving around

making sure everything was burning safely.

Pretty damn amazing how flammable this

Manzanita is- thank goodness this is a

controlled burn as opposed to a Summer wildfire.

Russell with a fire fighting tool....

We highly recommend Todd and Tim Wright of Cut-Wright

They offer a full range of services for the home/land owner

 ranging from small scale logging to pruning fruit trees

Address: PO Box 410, Mt Shasta, CA 96067
Tel: 530 926 4388
Fax: 530 926 4388

cut-wright@att.net

We could not have accomplished this task

without their professional advice and help!
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WORK...... the new four letter word!

No rest for the wicked they say...

for the last 5 days we have had our

morning coffee and then off to work outside....

One would never know we're retired!

We bought this used quad for snow removal,

and it is now paying for itself in pulling out Manzanita

to be burned......here Russell is pulling out a large piece...

Now he's putting it on top of the fire....

At the end of our work day.....

we usually spend about 5-6 hours

 Russell tends the fire......  

and I get a beer for each of us while we sit

and watch the fire die down....

And look at beautiful Mt. Eddy ....

What projects are you working on at your home?

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Burn pile image

While working with Russell in burning all the huge piles

of cleared Manzanita.....I periodically see a photo op...

This one amused me.

Work gloves having a conversation

Our First Burn Pile

Now that we live in the mountains it isn't as easy

to recycle what we used to do at the curbside.

We have a weekly garbage pickup, but anything else 

you either take to the dump, haul it to a recycler or burn it.

I have found where I can recycle cardboard, newspaper, tins cans

other metals, glass and get my deposit back

on all those bottles and pop cans. 

But when it comes to all the fire hazard Manzanita bushes

we have removed and all the trimmed tree branches there is

only one solution: the burn pile. We have about 15 burn piles.

Yesterday we fired up one. It took from 10am til 5pm.

One down 14 to go!

These piles have been sitting here since last June.

We didn't dare burn until there was snow on the ground.

It took awhile to get it really burning....

Russell and I felt like two kids playing with fire. 

This morning it is just barely smoldering...

Some of the Manzanita had huge root balls. 

The next burn pile is in the background awaiting it's fate.
Once we are all done burning we can spread all the ashes
to help enrich the soil. That's a plus!!