Nothing strikes more fear in me or anyone who lives in a rural area than fire. Without the benefit of a paid fire fighting team or hydrants and having only a well to fight a fire with can be a pretty scary experience. This is not in any way a critique of volunteer units as they do a darn good job with the tools that they have to work with. I'm just saying that with a paid force you have people on duty 24/7 to do what needs to be done immediately when called. With a volunteer force you get what you get when you get it. That being said...we are under a burn ban until we get some significant rains.
A burn ban is exactly what it sounds like. No outdoor burning till the ban is lifted. This means no welding for us and by the strictest letter of the law no one should even be grilling or B-B-Q-ing.
If we'd already had the well house done then we could move forward because I could be ready with a hose to put out any fires that an errant spark might ignite. But we didn't close until a couple of weeks ago and the ban was already in place. Se la vie.
So until we can begin any type of outside construction at the property we will do what we can here at the current house and that means...cattle guards. We need 3 cattle guards and Bob can build them at his shop without setting the whole countryside on fire.
Picture above is the beginning of a cattle guard. And the following pictures are of the work in progress.
This next picture is of a tree we found while exploring another part of the property. It's huge!
These last 2 pictures are of just a couple of the tanks that are on the property.
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