Chainsaw Repairs (Again)

Remember that "Little Green Chainsaw?
Remember how bad things kept happening to it?
Well, as The Fuzz's Sweetie and The Fuzz, himself, were involved in the final preparations, making a way for their new home, there was an other problem. As he went to tighten the chain (quite necessary) The Fuzz found that the little screw (A) for this purpose was gone. Zip, Nada.

But the ever resourceful Fuzz was not to be thwarted again.
You see, in this pix, a piece of the first Little Green Chainsaw. Not being the sort to throw out a perfectly good ruined chainsaw, he still had this part on hand. And as can be seen, it contained both (A) the screw in question, and that little thing (B) in there for engaging the bar- thus tightening the chain.
And so, our Little Green Chainsaw is still cutting and cutting and cutting.

In other news, The Seagulls have returned to the landfill, a sure sign of the approaching winter.

Fortunate Misfortune

Perhaps you recognize this little feller. Well, if not, he is the reason The Fuzz was so late in getting that new door up. He had Big and Evil Plans for the other day, but there was a delay.
It seems that Bambi here met with an accident involving a 30-30. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time, or maybe the right place at the right time, depending on one's point of view. Well, at least he is in the right place now, in The Fuzz's point of view.
It should be noted that The Fuzz was not directly responsible for young Bambi's misfortune. In fact the only deer he's ever killed he killed with his motorcycle. But he does have connections. And said connections are responsible for The Fuzz's happy freezer.

Our New Door

We finally got our new door installed.

The Old Door (A) has been removed. This went pretty well, at least it didn't fall apart.
Here the New Door (B) is ready for installation.
It fit perfectly and now we finally have a door we can lock and not have to worry about it falling apart.

And here is our New Door installed!
Why was a New Door needed?

Note here at the Arrow how this old one is disintegrating. This was not good. And besides all that, we had no Key for it.
But now every thing is OK. We have a locking door that is not falling apart.

The Old and the New

With all this business about a new place, It seemed like a good time to have a look at a bit of the old place.

And so, The Fuzz would like to present this sketch by one of our lesser known local artists. He thinks it is pretty nice.

We are still a long way from moving though.
But things are moving along. Today, The Fuzz picked up our new back door. If he gets lucky he may get it installed tomorrow. There are lots of screws involved in that, and since his trusty cordless screwdriver/drill thing is history, he made a trip over to the Super Big Home Improvement Place.
They had sent him a flier informing him of a great deal on a new screwdriver/drill. This piece of power equipment came with not 1, but 2 batteries, and even a flashlight! But when he got there he found that alas, there were none. There was, of course, a more expensive model available. He tried to buy the display model, but they seemed unable to find the batteries. The Fuzz figured the thing wouldn't be much good without those things and so gave up on that.
But he did find and purchase a (hopefully) suitable substitute, which is at this moment being charged up in anticipation of tomorrow's door replacement.
If it doesn't snow.

Getting to the Bottom of Things

Well, over the weekend we did get out to do bit of work at making this trailer habitable.
It needs a new door, but that had to be ordered. So in the meantime we decided to tackle the carpet.

It was pretty bad and we don't care much for carpet anyway. Some had already been stripped out by the previous inhabitants, but it was still in a couple of rooms. This also gave us a chance to see just how much work will be needed on the floor.

The Nasty Old Carpet was then drug out and loaded on the truck.
The Fuzz hopes to get the new door on later this week. Eventually there will be some major carpentry, but we'll want some electricity for that so we can use Power Tools!

The Big Day- Revisited

I promised some more pix of the move, so here we are.

As you can see, it was a tight situation. But these guys are professionals. They took their time and eased it though the woods without any major damage.

Here, they've gotten it off the road and are backing it down though the woods to it's new home.

We didn't make it easy for them. In order to position things like we wanted, it was necessary to back this 70ft. behemoth all the way in from the dirt road. And the "Driveway" had a couple of turns in it. The place is sort of a clearing in the middle of the woods.
It always helps to have the right equipment for a difficult job. This is the hitch on their truck. It will move from side to side in addition to up and down. And they had to use these features in some of the tight maneuvers.

But just because the thing was in the right place didn't mean the work was over. These guys wanted their wheels back, so the *Trailer would have to go up onto these blocks. Actually, that was part of the deal.

The Fuzz didn't really want to swap places with these fellows. They had to dig out the places for the blocks with little short shovels underneath that thing. But they finally got the thing up on the blocks, and got their trailer wheels back. They are Hard, Hard Workers, everyday.
So now the Trailer is in place, and the movers payed off. We still need a Well, Septic Tank and a bunch of inspections. Plus, there is plenty of work on the Trailer itself. You may have noticed, this is not an Expensive, New Trailer, but, an Old Trailer, in need of some repairs. But that is the way we do things here. And so, we will keep you all posted as things progress on our move to the country.


*It should be noted, that we realize that this is not a "Trailer", but a "Mobil Home". But The Fuzz insists that anything pulled behind a truck like this is still a "Trailer". It's just common sense.

The Big Day- Successfully Moved

Well, Here it is!

We've been quite busy the last few days. But we finally got our New (old) Trailer moved. And here it is, set up here in the woods, right where we want it. This is a big step in what remains a big project. But at least we have it, and it is on our land.
The move was, thankfully, uneventful.
These guys are good, and there were a lot of tight places since we were trying to minimize the tree loss. But they worked with us and Got-R-Done.
It's leaveled and up on the blocks. Now we need a well, septic tank and all that stuff. And there's plenty of work to do on the Trailer itself.
The Fuzz has more pix of the move, and I'll try to get him to post some up here soon. But it's getting late now, so Good Night to all our Loyal Readers.

The Big Day

If all goes as planned, we hope to move the Trailer today.

Serious Power Tools

I've mentioned how busy we've been, cutting trees and all that. Well it came to the point where the stumps had to be removed. This was a job for some Serious Power Tools.

As you can see even with equipment like this, it wasn't easy.
Note how the rear end of this mighty machine is losing contact with the earth under the strain of trying to pull this stump. It reminds me of The Fuzz's last trip to the Tooth Dentist.
But the skillful operator succeeded with this and a number more. After he finally got one out of the ground, he would drop it several times to get some of the dirt out of the roots.

Once those stumps were out of the ground we had to put them someplace out of the way. He pushed them over in the woods where nothing is planned for right now.

And here is the place prepared for our future home.
If the weather cooperates, we hope to get it moved out here this week. Then the real work begins.

Here's an Action Shot of the work. (I hope)

New Drawing Table

The Fuzz has been kinda busy these days what with clearing a forest and all.
So maybe it's time to change the subject for a bit.

When the UPS truck pulled up the other day, the Man In Brown gave The Fuzz a couple of boxes. Here you can see one of them and it's contents.
The Fuzz is one of those "I can fix that, let me get my tools" guys. And this even involved Power Tools, or at least a drill. He is also a bit unusual in that he will at least briefly glance at the directions.

And so, may I present to you, The Fuzz's Sweetie's *Brand New Drawing Table.

*This wonderful Drawing Table even folds for storage which may be a handy feature when we move to our new facilities.

Have Splitter, Will Travel

Agile Son had carried a large trailer load of wood home with him. And so, toward the end of the week, we hitched up the old Log Splitter and headed over his way. We found quite a pile of wood already there. But that was a project for the next morning.
But now it was time for a delicious dinner.
Later, we watched a flick from the infamous Netflix, "Good Bye, Lenin!". This was billed as a comedy, but I'm not quite ready to call it that, myself.
The next morning was coffee and Home Made Donuts.
And then it was time to tackle that wood pile. "Many hands make light work" as they say, and we've always found that true. All that wood was busted by lunch time. The above picture is the finished job.

Tropical Skills

We've been staying pretty busy getting a place ready for our future home.
Last week, Agile Son and Daughter in Law came out to help out. This tree had to come down, but had the potential to take out the electrical power for the neighborhood. We deemed it best to tie it off to make certain there would be no unpleasant circumstances as a result of our efforts.
Here you can see that Agile Son applying a skill he picked up getting coconuts on a visit to that Tropical Paradise.
Apparently, the trick is to tie the ankles for a better grip.
I am happy to report that our efforts were successful, and the tree came down with no damage to the power grid.