Hi. Back for a moment.
Coming back from Ohio, I'm faced with about 5 weeks with no travel. My next trip is, once again, Ohio, when Julia moves into OSU. Until that time, I'm looking to knock out some local projects, which of course includes RV, CR, Cromwell, and my back yard. In the fall of last year, I started cobbling together a wooden berm, or a wall ride, whichever you want to call it. In the end that was going to be too much work, so I took it down and decide to cobble together a rock & dirt berm.
The problem is that it's a right turn that goes totally against the slope of the dirt mound. For reference, this is the dirt mound that was created when we poured copious amounts of dollars into the septic field. This field, incidentally, could pretty much host an NFL football game, I'm pretty sure. So gravity and direction aside, I still felt like this was a better option for building that right-handed berm.
A tree had fallen in the back, and I chopped it into a reasonable length of about 10', then sliced it lengthwise which was far more work than I was hoping. It was also far more loaded with ants than is comfortable but I made it out unscathed. I then laid these out to act as supports for the basis of this build. Before you say it, yes I am aware that wood will rot. By the time that happens, I'll be able to add more rock & dirt to firm up whatever holes form. A future problem.
I have been working on the entrance to this over the past few days, but the below is what I laid out earlier this spring. I had a lot of great intentions to get to this, but I always seem to have something else to do. I'll show some of the leading trail pics in the next few days, but for now, this is what the basis of it looked like before I started augmenting it all this week.
Much of that side hill will be reformed over the next 5 weeks. And a lot of the backside of the tree-base will need to be firmed up as well. Anyway, this is where we are today.
