We had a very busy weekend on the land digging holes, riding horses and bikes and dealing with a leaking pipe. Bryce and I dug a couple of very deep holes and put in a hitching rail at the wash down area, there is a very nice layer of topsoil here which is fantastic for drainage and for digging holes, but as I found out putting in the Willow trees, when you get to the clay layer it’s really hard work!
So there has always been a very spongy spot on one section of the paddock, we thought we had a leak in a pipe somewhere, so I dug a hole and eventually located a plastic hose in the layer of clay, I suspect it was put that deep to avoid plough blades, it comes out near the trough and is connected to a pump that turns on every four hours or so.
We expanded the hole until we located the leak in the pipe and then that’s when
the fun began, where the pipe comes out of the ground it’s 25mm and we had some
25mm joiners so we went ahead and cut the pipe only to find that at that spot, it was not 25mm! Crap! So now we have a cut water pipe, no way to join it and who knows when the pump is going to turn back on.
Bryce has a mate who has a shed full of joiners and pipes so he gets in the car and races off to get some, meanwhile I am going to stay there and supervise things…then the water comes on!
What can you do but pose for pictures!
Eventually thanks to Bryce we got it joined up again, left it exposed for a couple of days and it seems to have stopped leaking so it’s now buried again.
Look before you leap, taste before you add more salt, measure before you cut,
Simple rules, must remember them……
Ben and I have been busy staining the top rail of the fences, we are using a mixture of old engine oil and diesel, it looks quite good but the main reason is to stop the horses wood chewing, apparantly they don’t like the taste of oil and the bonus is that it’s a heck of a lot cheaper than fence stain.
