More Stone Wall

You may recall that I built a stone retaining wall and steps on the  East side of the shop last Fall.  The plan was to continue it on toward the back and on around the back until it met the grade towards the South West corner, but finances interrupted that process.  I was buying the stone from a quarry a ways East of here and had spend a couple of hundred dollars doing the first part.  The critical  part was finished, the rest could wait.

Over the winter, when weather and mud allowed, I continued clearing the road to our new house site and the site itself.  The site is just 50 yards or so down the hill to the next rock shelf.  In the picture above, the photographer is standing at the head of the driveway going down.  The building site is behind me and to my left.  It shows well in this photo, below, taken from the top of the stone steps, looking back down the other way.

Rather than simply cutting trees off at the ground, I needed to get the whole stump out.  This is a rather slow process with my little tractor.  I have made quite a lot of progress and now have some nice open areas near the new house site.

The process of clearing, digging stumps, and leveling ground has exposed lots of rocks.  As I came across rocks, I hauled them back up hill where I needed to build more retaining wall.

After a couple days of nice spring weather, I got that wall 99% finished.  Just need a few more to get around the driveway to grade.