Clearing land

This week at Km 38, we´ve moved into the big project for the year (and probably several to come) - clearing land for the planned agrindustrial school and surgical clinic. The plans are extensive, with land for fields, industrial buildings, etc, all the way back on our 600m-wide by 3km-deep terreno (plot). In the last 4 days, we´ve cleared perhaps 50m square, in an area where much of the brush was already burned by a brushfire a week ago. First we move through cutting the remaining vines and larger grasses that survived the blaze, and pile them into 3-4 foot montones (piles), then Edwin, with the HUGE, 3-ft blade chainsaw cuts what trees are standing, and chops them into manageable lengths, anywhere from 15 ft on 4-in logs, to 4ft on logs 2 ft in diameter. Most are light, useless softwood, as our plot´s good wood has mostly been logged out, but some is good for leña, firewood. Here, in forest standards, that means it´s crazy heavy! Time to leave!