May 14, 2016 Tractor Day #4 day two

This is the pile when we started.
The shipping container is on the left,
the pile started about four feet past the doors.
Click on this for a bigger view.

By the time we got back to the Farm our fires had burned down, but one of them was still hot enough to jump right back into flames. Ann Started a new fire nearby the trash pile out of scrap wood from the trash. She is getting pretty good at starting fires. She had a huge fire going in a few minutes.

As I piled trash into the dumpsters using the excavator she picked out wooden debris to stoke the fire. Eventually she had a huge bonfire going while I went back and forth stoking the other fires with the tractor.

This is a view of the pile from the front.
The blue tarp in the foreground was the pile that the previous
owners had piled up when trying to prepare the place for sale.
The rock pile in the foreground is Polscher's Pile,
a donation to our project.

As it tuned out there was about a ton of metal in the trash. The roof from the mobile home, the body of the motor home, and one camper, plus the metal from the shed Jack knocked down on Tractor Day #2 all had to be pulled out of the trash and put into a pile of it's own.


At lunch time a couple of guys walked onto the Farm and ask whether we had plans for all of the steel framing left over from the mobile and motor homes. Needless to say we had none, so they began cutting them up with a welding torch and hauling it all away. Lance was the guy's name. He lives nearby and across the highway where he building trailers out of scrap steel. So the steel being carted off was a good for the both of us.

By the end of the day we had most of the dumpsters filled, most of the wood burned, and most of the steel removed, but the place was still quite a mess.