FIRE! & of course land clearing
The first weekend we owned the land I called upon some close friends to come out and start dropping trees. We dropped 31 trees in one day, and broke one chain saw. Kelly and I went to the land on Sunday and bucked up more logs and took care of some small twigs. I was startled when my phone rang on Monday morning from the previous land owner. He called and informed me that there was a fire on the lot. I asked him where the fire occurred and how much damage there was. I figured there were only two rational explanations for the fire. One was the train tracks and the other was the power lines. A large, albeit skinny, balsam top broke off and landed on the power line starting the fire around 2AM Monday morning. The neighbors smelled smoke and called the Murphy Lake Fire Department. We lost 3 huge old growth white ceders and some smaller trees. I went out on Monday, and thanked the fire crew who was still out there sawing logs and clearing fuel. They were an awesome crew who stac