Mini RPI Work Session at Kingsland

I went up to Kingsland today to get in some cleanup at the Campa Pajama Lane crossing behind Spyke's BBQ (our normal lunch stop) before the heavy rains arrive this evening.  This was unusual since normally we have insurance to cover us only one day, however, we now have "windows" of up to four days so I was covered by insurance and therefore able to work on the track.  The window also came in handy for Leland, since he decided to postpone the Saturday, 9/29, work session to the 30th, again on account of the rain.

Here's before and after photos of the crossing (the after refers to after three hours of pulling out or cutting sunflower stalks, carrying them off, cleaning up garbage and then cutting down the stumps so no one trips on them):

As you can see, I have only nibbled around the edges of the interior of the ROW side that concerns me most, as far as clearing the lines of sight.  However, there is a stump, some branches and a metal framework in there which are going to have to be cut up to be disposed of.  So that was more than I was prepared to chew on today.  At least I made more progress than in many work sessions out here.

At the end of the session I carted away a 4x8 plywood sheet (broken in half to fit my 4x6 trailer), two strips of metal and one and a half bags of trash.  The crossing is a lot safer than before.  Plus I found a piece off my two-wheeled BCS 725 mowing tractor that had fallen off the last work session over here.  So now I can put it back on the 725 and have it ready for Sunday's work session.  Frank Glatzl and I will be working a little bit further east along the line, where the sunflower stalks are thick and high.  We will see how much damage we can do to them with the 725, which has a four-foot-wide cutting bar with teeth.  I hope we will leave that crossing and the area around looking a whole lot better as well.