These "before" pictures were taken by photographer Gary Hamburgh. Doesn't he have some beautiful shots of the barn and the clouds!I don't think you can see it but much of the area around the barn was on a slope. Nothing was level or smooth.
In front of the barn is a runoff ditch that rarely has water in it. The first thing we did was bring in a bulldozer (CD Thacker Excavating) to create some level areas. They laid culvert in one section of the ditch and covered it up so we could create another large smooth area.to the south of the barn.
This area had lots of weeds and behind the barn were piles of rolled up fencing wire, fence posts and more "stuff" that accumulates in a barnyard. Before the excavators came in we sorted through all of the stuff and stored what could be used at some point, and took the rest to the dump.
Even with all that work, when Thackers started moving soil around he found remains of machinery. Bear in mind the Winn's have historically kept a clean farm. They aren't ones to keep piles of stuff around. It was interesting what we found under the surface.
