Finished digging the compost over today. Got another big tub of sifted compost for the rest of the garden that is still to be planted (its just getting warm enough for those plants).

Also under and next to the compost pile, two weird concrete Tetris pieces, a big pile of fly ash bricks and this piece of rather nice and hardly rusty 100mm steel box section 🤩

And a lot of hand picking pieces of rope, foil, wire, a swing arm from some vehicle, rubber hoses/belts and all kinds of uncompostable junk someone had left in there.

#Homestead #Cleanup #Junk #Treasure #Compost #Digging

For the last month, in between other jobs, I've been slowly preparing some ground.

Hauled material around with a improvised dump trailer (awkward, but I made do), leveled the area, brought in two long concrete pylons and pushed them into position.

Now they just need to be leveled and bedded.

#Homestead #DIY #Digging #Sawmill

Out of dirt error.

I know where to get some, but now it's raining and mud sucks, so I'm organizing the sewing box instead.

#Homestead #Digging #Levelling #Dirt

Next job: Removing the concrete pylons that formed a foundation for a greenhouse that must've collapsed some time ago.

We want our kitchen garden in that area (the soil is great), but a bit further from the big spruce as its roots compete with anything we tried to grow there last year.

The huge concrete beam is a little on the heavy side for my machines. You can see the excavator at tipping point there, but just about lifting it and I did wheelies on the tractor but managed to drag it out the back gate with some tricks.

One more to go.

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Pre-jungle season is running out soon. Time to tackle goat pen #3.

Difficult access, the former outdoor service pit was in front of it, which is now just a ditch. I scooped up some dirt and built a causeway, then got rid of the ingrown fence and creeper roots.

Now I can drive the mower into there and keep it from overgrowing again.

The thorny fuckers inside got chipped into the hole and the non-thorny shrubbery got chipped onto the new causeway.

Treasure so far: The usual bunch of steel, a large concrete chunk and enough scrap wood for a few sauna sessions. Some of it even already dry.

#Homestead #Cleanup #GoatPen #Fence #MiniExcavator #Digging

Spade blades were used as currency in ancient China.10 things you might not know about spades.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/02/28-february-spades.html

#Spades #Gardening #tools #gardentools #digging

Millions of people still digging out from historic blizzard face another onslaught

https://misryoum.com/us/news/millions-of-people-still-digging-out-from-historic/

Days after a historic blizzard hits the Northeast, people are still digging out all the snow, and some areas are getting hit with more snow. Rob Marciano has the latest.

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