Post AV0skuS3HiVSmZxdMu by rmattila74@mastodo.fi
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(DIR) Post #AV0skuS3HiVSmZxdMu by rmattila74@mastodo.fi
2023-04-25T11:26:21Z
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Iteration in progress.
(DIR) Post #AV0skv8EksFatPhK7c by nafnlaus@fosstodon.org
2023-04-25T11:55:46Z
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@rmattila74 Nice. :)Certainly looks cleaner and less backbreaking than my recent repair work. ;)
(DIR) Post #AV0skvgyfi2Wd9x4Gu by rmattila74@mastodo.fi
2023-04-25T12:34:25Z
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@nafnlaus If I was alive, I'd come over for a week and lend a hand. Looks like tons of fun!
(DIR) Post #AV0skwIYQ066VhX4qG by nafnlaus@fosstodon.org
2023-04-25T13:54:52Z
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@rmattila74 Yesterday I managed to get the boulders off the fence net (I declared the barbed wire a lost cause ;) ), and even stacked the lighter ones into a low wall with big gaps (to act as a barrier, and also so that the stream that flows down there can run through it below the boulders, decreasing the odds that it'll freeze solid as an ice dam... hopefully...). I've driven in new posts, but need to come back with the right tools to attach the net and restring the barbed wire.
(DIR) Post #AV0skwpASkBY8qn7g0 by nafnlaus@fosstodon.org
2023-04-25T13:57:02Z
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@rmattila74 I'm still not entirely certain where the boulders came from or why, but my suspicion is that it was a small avalanche or landslide through this ravine (which runs perpendicular to the river), which picked up material around that scar on the rightI should have a pretty good view soon, as I'm going to be building a summer house (where I'll be living for a few years) right on the upper right bank of that ravine ;)
(DIR) Post #AV0skxPKIJ6nwzi02K by rmattila74@mastodo.fi
2023-04-25T13:59:44Z
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@nafnlaus I thought it was underground flow cutting a piece of a slope off.
(DIR) Post #AV0skxuWQK3vVkIuf2 by nafnlaus@fosstodon.org
2023-04-25T14:18:27Z
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@rmattila74 This (low quality) video shows what the ravine looks like during the spring melt:https://photos.google.com/u/1/photo/AF1QipOUixpJ_wIY4nTckdoYWeWepV3yuFHQKR83hASuBut like you said, there's a lot of underground flow too. During the summer (dry season), the top half of the ravine has no water, but there's still good flow in the lower half due to the groundwater seeps.
(DIR) Post #AV0skyWS9IP5PO3Cme by rmattila74@mastodo.fi
2023-04-25T14:21:23Z
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@nafnlaus Suppose getting an excavator to ditch the slope up is out of the question.
(DIR) Post #AV0skz9RoJazMKILZ2 by nafnlaus@fosstodon.org
2023-04-25T14:29:55Z
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@rmattila74 Right slope will be getting about a meter lower, maybe a bit more, when the summer home goes in. Deeper where the foundation footings go. If we hit running water (and not through bedrock), we'll put in a rock drain, at least around the house.Digging out the whole ravine would be insanely expensive, though. The lower portion is 40m wide and 8m deep.Also note all the vegetation on the right slope (both into the ravine & canyon). Easy to see where the underground flow is.