About February of 1998 this region of East Tennessee was hit with a 14" snow storm that downed and damaged numerous trees. The drive to the house was littered with downed trees and bushes. Our pre-arrival intention was, just remove the trees and place three culverts in the wet areas of the drive. Bryan hauled his backhoe from Indiana to dig the trenches for the culverts, dig out the filled-in dug well at the house and dig a pit for the new out house. We spent about 3 days completely overhauling the driveway. Hawk Beasley and Larry Potter brought their tractors with grader blade and box grader to help with driveway overhaul. We ordered 2 loads of #4 stone on Tuesday and another on Wednesday morning. The three loads of stone almost covered the entire drive.
We had planned to purchase and install commercial wood siding for the main house, but
Lowes didn't have it in stock. Hawk trucked a load of logs to Crossville to Nealy's
saw mill, had the logs cut into 1280 board feet of 3/4", 1" and 2X4 lumber and
trucked it back to the cabin. 
Bryan, Hawk and I unloaded and stacked the lumber in the
cabin so it could air dry over the next year. This is a much better solution than
the planned commercial siding because it will be more original. Next year we will
take Bryan's planner to plane one side of the lumber for exterior siding and interior
paneling. We plan to take our routers to tongue and grove the material for the
paneling.
Bryan cleaned out the dug well with his backhoe. 
The well was about 20 ft deep and about 3 ft in diameter at
the bottom. They used this well as a refrigerator and a source of water. The well is
fed with an underground stream of water and had several hundred gallons of water in it the
next morning.
Bryan also dug the pit for the new out house. 
We located the spot where the original had sit and he dug
the first pit near it. The pit was too large for the material we had purchased to
build the out house, so he dug another one and filled in the previously dug pit. The house
is a two stall unit with a men's and women's side.
I layed out the location for the footing pads for the kitchen and porch and the back
room and porch, Bryan then dug the pad holes with the backhoe. We mixed Quickcrete in a
mixer and poured the pads. Next year we won't have to wait for the concrete to setup
before laying the footing stones.