Getting Rid Of The Old

There wasn't much sentiment involved when the old cottage came down.  In fact, we were not even there that day because we were running our private taxi service to and from the airport for relatives.

Our neighbor, Ben, took this.

Apparently it was the entertainment for the neighborhood that day.  The job went quickly and the debris was hauled away.

Ben and a couple of other neighbors had already scavenged for items of use or metal for scrap sale before the tear down started.  We gave Ben a nice one year old storm door and a baseboard heating boiler for his place.

Ben's parents wanted to keep the cyclone fence up between our properties so that their dog could run around their backyard.  But after the house came down, we had to have the old tree stumps removed and the only way that could happen is by removing the fence into which the trees had grown.  Unfortunately, the decision to take the fence down came after the demolition crew left, so Ben, his dad and I spent several hot hours with a heavy-duty tractor Ben's dad brought and ripped out the fence.

Once the fence was removed, we were able to bring in a guy with his stump grinder to clear the stumps.

The lot was cleared for the start of the foundation.  That's when it got interesting.