Achieving goal number one

We have all along had two main goals for before we go on our vacation trip to Ireland and Holland. Those two goals have been to get the building permission application in and to have the road cleared. We have since made our goals smaller or more realistic: to get the building application ready for our house (but not for the outside buildings) and to get the road cleared so that there fits a machine to come to gather the trees that we have cut down. This machine will also gather the trees cut not only from the road but also bigger trees up a ridge. Those big trees will be used for the main structure of the house.

We (or maybe just I) were having some panic thoughts that we wont get to those goals until we had our second helper and friend Oopi over for more than a week and he really was the right guy in the right moment. Thanks Oopi! Oopi and Mick had almost all of trees needed cut down from up the ridge and Oopi cleared with a brush saw the part of the road that we had not cleared yet. Oopi is a lumberjack so he really did know what he is doing and Mick learned a lot from him.

Oopi clearing the road with a brush saw

Oopi raivaamassa tietä raivaussahalla

After that my dad has also been a huge help clearing the road starting from the other end of the road. He has been clearing the road almost every day now for a few weeks and thats a great help for us. He has also been up the ridge cutting trees down. Most of the trees cut down from the ridge have a disease that spreads from pine to pine and kills the tree (but the tree is still perfect to use). It makes me happy that we are using trees that would have died anyway pretty soon.

So we have achieved our goal that the road is now ready for the machine to come next week to pick up all the trees lying around. He will get all the trees down from the ridge and all the ones from the road and bring part of them to a pile near our coming house and part of them to a pile for a mobile saw to cut to boards.