Free stuff is a lot of work

When the excavating company prepared the site and driveway, they placed a 12” pipe (two 4
20’ sections) in the culvert. During the prep it was damaged and they replaced it with a smaller one of different materials. I asked what they were going to do with the damaged pipe, they said take it to the dump. I told them to leave it and said I would make use of it near the pond.

I used my garden tractor and a chain to drag both sections to the area by the pond. When I did all the trenching, I attempting to run 2 trenches side by side. That didn’t work to well in that one of the wheels of the trencher fell into the adjacent trench. Wrestling it out of the hole was part of the reason for the chest pain visit to The ER. (see last blog post)

So now the “lot of work” part started. I needed to hand dig the trench wide enough for the "free" pipe to fit. This took a while, in that it decided to rain for close to a week.

Today I got the two pipes together and into the hole, pounded it home with a tamper and finessed some of the high parts down.

Whew, it would have been easier to just run the smaller pipe all the way to the pond, but free stuff is hard to turn down.

Now on to placing the remainder of the French drain over the next week or so. The pole barn should start by the end of the week, anxious to see it go up. That work is being done by Troyer Buildings, a local company. They are supplying all the materials and erecting the poles and roof only.


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