I'm ready for spring also!

samn40 · Mar 3, 2013

My garden has always had a wet patch, but this past really wet year it has been worse than usual and is not drying up. So, I had a mini digger hired out for the weekend to dig a foundation and I decided to let my 10 year old do some draining. What is it with children and diggers? They love them! I suppose it is just an extension to their computer games, but he took to it like a duck to water. He dug the path he was told to and although I went every now and then to tidy up a bit(mainly level the bottom) he got the job done and the water was trickling in when he had finished. Now I need to get some stone and backfill it so I can plough!
Sam

Anonymous-0 · Mar 3, 2013

Love the pic with the house in the background.And one happy talented 10-year old. Great!

larrystinescorner · Mar 3, 2013

thsts great!! He did a good job!!

ray hofstetter · Mar 3, 2013

Sam,
you tell your son he did a better job than the last guy I HIRED to dig a trench! Now I rent the machine and do my OWN digging, that way I got no one to blame but myself....
Looks great!

Bob Bancroft · Mar 3, 2013

Don't you use drainage pipe/tile?

smallercrawler · Mar 3, 2013

Hi Sam, looks like your lad did a great job! Last year at a tractor show, the local utility company had a tracked, remote control pole derrick set up in a clear place and was allowing kids to operate the crane portion of it to pick up a bucket of water and reposition it to a mark without spilling. I was amazed at the age and skill of most of the youngsters! Hats off to the utility, best interactive display there.

samn40 · Mar 3, 2013

I just fill in about 12 inches deep of 3 inch stone. We used to drain with flexible coil pipe but it was difficult to keep level and then silted up. We find the old drains/shores, made with gathered field stones years ago, to be still working unless the outlet gets blocked. So I use about 10 foot of rigid plastic pipe at the outlet.
Sam

Bob Bancroft · Mar 3, 2013

Very interesting. Just the opposite here. Most of the land I work was drained years ago, by hand. The early "stone" ditches lasted a long time, but are a continual problem. Tiny clay tile(about 1.5" ID) down about two feet, are mostly what's here. They work good, until, as you say, the outlet gets plugged. Then it kept getting bigger. Most of the "modern" drainage here is 4". All plastic now.

Erik Ks farmer · Mar 3, 2013

Great pics Sam, he'll remember that for a lifetime.

John B. · Mar 3, 2013

Your son did a great job Sam. I wanted to ask. What is the high bank next to your garden plot? To me it looks like an old RxR track at one time.

Popcorn · Mar 3, 2013

That home in the back???? Could it have been built by Sammy Millar.

Don-Wi · Mar 3, 2013

Me too. Worst part is, I still gotta prune my trees and they're almost completely buried in the snow now...

samn40 · Mar 4, 2013

The high bank???? I think you mean the hedge beside the digger? That is a county laneway.....a single track road that has a hedge on each side, I keep it cut down level with my machine. The house in the background is my house that I built myself over the past 15 years.
Sam

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