Although we had rain for the weekend in Laurel Fork, the weather was decent on Thursday and Friday and we were able to get serious about cleaning up the grounds. Mike and Gabino worked on servicing the loader while still in Staunton. They loaded it on Wednesday and we drove down Wednesday evening. Was a little different pulling such a load as we traveled, especially when we got into the mountains, but all went well.
An old bus sat abandoned for years. Someone at some point had turned it into a chicken house. It was full of metal laying boxes and feeders. It was a real "eye sore" and I was happy when Mike was able to get it onto the trailer. There was a good bit of metal off the sides of the shed (that we replaced with wood) as well as other scrap metal that we scrounged up around the property. We were quite the site pulling this bus and load of metal down the road to the scrap yard. We have several more loads of scrap metal, I am sure.
Mike pushed over a lot of brush. The place is covered is some sort of bush with horrible briars all over it. It has taken over in places. (I am not good at identifying plant life.) The brush had grown up around this old piece of equipment to the point we couldn't even see it. Mike got it removed. It is in very poor condition and we probably won't try to save the piece in its entirety. We will probably salvage some key pieces and then scrap the rest.
Here is a view of the inside of the structure. We will probably just fill it in with dirt but my mind is working as to what and how we could repurpose it.
Clean up is always messy business and doesn't leave one with a lot of beautiful pictures to share until it is all finished. As we continue with our clean up and restoration projects, I wanted to present the "before" photos as well as those lovely, picturesque "after" photos. Thanks for following along with us on this journey.