I've been in my shop ten years now and it's hard to believe that much time has gone by. I have projects ahead of me but also many have been checked off the to-do list. Yesterday a BIGGIE was checked off the list.
Over the past ten years I've stuck my mower countless times in a drainage ditch on the edge of my property. Ag fields upstream send a lot of water my way. The ground is wet and muddy nearly all of the time and after big rains water pools there for days or weeks at a time. It has no bottom. Step in it and you sink past your ankle. Enough of this. It's time to fix it!
A former baseball team mate and friend of Thomas started his own construction company so I called him. Seeing a kid I coached start his own company and being successful is such a wonderful thing. He came out, I showed him the issue, we discussed the solution, he bid the job at a price that was most reasonable (friend of the family discount) and started last week. Rain slowed us down but he made the job a priority and was there the minute it was dry enough. We brought in around 20 truckloads of dirt and filled the low spot. I helped him (because I can't stand watching others work and me not being a part of it) install the 110' of pipe. It's laser graded sloped and the build-up will shed water ending the headaches of stuck mowers and sloppy mud almost year-round.
Now I wait for grass to cover the dirt and that will take far less than the ten years it took me to fix the problem.
Over the past ten years I've stuck my mower countless times in a drainage ditch on the edge of my property. Ag fields upstream send a lot of water my way. The ground is wet and muddy nearly all of the time and after big rains water pools there for days or weeks at a time. It has no bottom. Step in it and you sink past your ankle. Enough of this. It's time to fix it!
A former baseball team mate and friend of Thomas started his own construction company so I called him. Seeing a kid I coached start his own company and being successful is such a wonderful thing. He came out, I showed him the issue, we discussed the solution, he bid the job at a price that was most reasonable (friend of the family discount) and started last week. Rain slowed us down but he made the job a priority and was there the minute it was dry enough. We brought in around 20 truckloads of dirt and filled the low spot. I helped him (because I can't stand watching others work and me not being a part of it) install the 110' of pipe. It's laser graded sloped and the build-up will shed water ending the headaches of stuck mowers and sloppy mud almost year-round.
Now I wait for grass to cover the dirt and that will take far less than the ten years it took me to fix the problem.
