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By Dave, November 18, 2004 7:05 pm

well not totally done but closer than we've been so far. Got the last tree down that was in the way for the trailer to come in. ended up using shovel, maddock (sp?) and pry bar to cut the clay from around the roots and underneath the tree. Then pulled down with the tractor. didn't fall quite right but didn't hurt anything either so was ok. Cut it up into beam length of 8 to 10 feet and bill started dragging them down in the field. I pushed the first stump/root ball over toward the gully and was almost back when one of the tracks came off. about an hour and a half later we get it back on and tightened back up a bit. then start filling the holes up a bit. get it clear enough to get around the other tree and hook to it with the dozer blade and pick it up and after bill cuts it off to clear a tree I move it out and then he cuts it off the root ball. I unhook and push the root ball into the gully while he and neil hook up and move the trunk to the store pile. get started filling the holes to try and beat the rain. bill comes back and we get going me braking the clay loose and he moving it into the holes. going good and then he shuts the tractor off for some reason and then it won't start back up. battery had died. guess it has a cracked cell. load drops the voltage quickly. so get the battery out of bertha and go again. light ran out so finish with the headlight of the van and tractor. none on the dozer yet. got it done. mostly anyway. still high and low spots but much better than before.

hoping to move the trailers tomorrow if it doesn't rain. if it does i guess we'll wait. or not. gonna try to get the 14×66 first and semi block it up and then move the 12×60 beside it and move the stuff over. then move the 12×60 over here. or thats the plan before the enemy is met.

got the pchenterprises.com domain set up this morning. tis just a intro page for now but will become a full e-commerce store soon. i hope. still not done much with the database or mergemill but started reading the help files and it looks like it will do exactly what I need. just got to build the templates and away we go. or that's the plan. well populate the data bases too. after i build them.

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By Dave, November 18, 2004 1:42 am

got 3 of the 4 trees down today. one still up but tied off and dug around to about 4 feet deep. should get it down tomorrow morning. then to start cutting them up and pulling them out of the way. hope to get one if not both trailers pulled tomorrow too. tomorrow in later today. thursday november 18, 2004 to be close. if I do get them moved I will rejoice mightily. and start moving books and other things.

worked most of the bugs out of the <a href="http://www.jville.net/index.html">jville.net</a> site today. got the number finder put back in. <a href="http://www.optima-system.com/pagespinner/">PageSpinner</a> really helps out doing the coding on the pages.

Trying to wrap my head around some of filemaker's ways. going to try putting the sites into databases and using either scripting or a program to generate the pages from that. there is one I am looking at now called <a href="http://www.crossculture.com.hk/e-web-tools.htm">Mergemill</a>. it looks like it will do what i need with minimum fussing and cussing. Would rather an open source product but will see how it works and look around a bit more too.

think it is about time to crawl upstairs for the duration…