Back To The Ditch

With the sick tree safely on the ground and cut into logs, it is time to get back to the ditch that had been spending the last day and a half drying out from the soggy bog it was.

Overnight, the equipment in the pump house did its end-of-cycle cleaning and discharge thing and send cascades of water down the ditch. This worked to our advantage because instead of trying to smooth the edges of the ditch with hard, dried, clay, subsoil we were able to muck out the slippery, wet mud making a nice smooth ditch to place the new drain pipe.

After placing the pipe in the ditch, we hand-shoveled enough dirt over the pipe to hold it in place and to make a bit of a cushion to protect the pipe while it gets two more feet of dirt firmed in over the top.

Mike used the bulldozer to push the piles of now hard dirt clumps and clods over the packed in pipe and finished off by packing it tight. The new pipe works wonderfully well and I look forward to being able to walk through this area in the wet winter time without sinking knee deep each time.

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