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I got through your 33 page thread woot.  So awesome you got them to drop off all that mulch.  I was thinking I was going to pick it up from the town yards.. YOU got it delivered...sweet.  Desplite the issues with the case it does seem to scale well to the size of your lot! thats important..to big and its combersome and could be more damaging then helpful.  We just got a small desiel kubota b series for other property...wish it had a bucket on it like yours though.

One thing I wanted to comment on was the standing water issues.  I have been playing a lot latley with shaping land and have started to observe things that may help??  The problem I see with the tube and rocks covered with dirt method of removing excess water is that it does not seem to work quickly enough.  I guess what I saying is that if the land is flat then you get massive rain the water does not shed away quickly enough b/c the soil/earth can only absorb so much so it will "sheet" in the case of winter freeze. grade being more important to the management of water then a subsurface drain. So that final grading job your buddy did I have found to be best.  simply ditches with raised "mounds"/walkways for paths.  Hard rains then flow to lowest point (out of your way) and then absorb into soil if just  little rain or run off in case of major rains.  Paths in general if not being added to with things such as stone /mulch will evenentrually become low spots making the issue worse.

So maybe in those spots that are puddling start to pile that extra mulch you have until its higher.  The mulch would also provide traction and start raising it ablove the grade of surrounding areas.  It would also build soil and help avoid compaction from animal hoves . I think that this is just something that will have to be constanly done.  Maybe ditch near fence or where ever you want the drainage ditches and pile in the spots that are collecting water now?  Just throwing out ideas, wish my landscape looked as nice as yours ...feel like I am surrounded by a barren moon landscape sometimes..earthwork sure is rough on the land ..at least inititally.

Really llooking forward to see how your garden area works out!!! 

As always thanks for sharing so well what your doing...

KVR said
My thoughts was wood, storage and foundry/blacksmith area, was planning having everything on wheels, that way I can roll everything out of the way to the sides when I want to drive through or run the animals up the driveway to trailer them

I found some interesting videos on the blacksmithing subject. I don't know much about it, so I'm not sure of the quality, but they seem to be similar to videos posted around here.

Learned a bit from this one

This one seemed like a cool DIY project