Monday, June 17, 2013

Long Overdue Clean-up

Well a few weeks ago we spent some time cleaning out a bunch of old buildings here at Dogpound North and last week on Wednesday we started taking those buildings down. It took us two days with a tracked hoe and dump truck but we converted those old buildings from this



to this.


I just wish it was a quick as that to do the actual work but we had a lot tracks to make to tear down these buildings.



and as well as pitching in and giving the demolition fellow a hand from time to time I managed to take a few photos along the way. As well as those old buildings we had over the years accumulated a lot of "good" stuff that I figured should find a new home, and Jed from Rappel Excavating offered to take it off my hands and haul it all in to town to be recycled.


So off it went, and folks of a certain age will recognize that baby blue car on top of the load as Ralph Nader's nemisis the Chevrolet Corvair. We have had it hidden away behind the chicken house for about 30 years and now it is heading off to be made into tin cans or something. Now to get some grass seeded and readjust the fencing to fill all the holes and we'll get back to some fun things for this journal.


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  1. Rod Ivers June 17, 2013 at 9:23 PM

    i enjoyed seeing the old Corvair... I had one in High School.. And yes if you pushed it too hard, the back end would become the front end.. Don't ask how I know this little fact!

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  2. Paul and Marti DahlJune 18, 2013 at 7:38 AM

    Amazing what some machinery will do to old buildings. I'm sure the view is much better now, even without the "Unsafe At Any Speed" Corvair. :c)

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  3. René and Jeanette GenereuxJune 18, 2013 at 9:06 AM

    It must be liberating to get rid of pointless buildings and the stuff they housed.

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  4. RickJune 18, 2013 at 9:56 AM

    I remember the old Corvairs well. I once owned a worse car - something called a Hillman. It went to the junk yard too after nearly costing me my life on more than one occasion.

    Things are looking pretty good at Dogpound North.

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  5. Desert DivaJune 18, 2013 at 10:16 AM

    That is some major work you did - you deserve a rest now! ;-)

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    1. JBJune 18, 2013 at 7:20 PM

      Thanks for visiting and you know the old saying "No rest for the wicked", we still need to get some grass seeded and think about some fences to replace the building we tore down, but it is all in the day around a farm. No end of tasks to keep us occupied.

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  6. SondraJune 18, 2013 at 7:14 PM

    What is the small orange car? IT reminds me of a Mercury Tracer I once owned.

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    1. JBJune 18, 2013 at 7:19 PM

      Sondra, thanks for visiting. The orange or bronze car was a Renault.

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