The rows have been marked, the soil amended, vine rows tilled, and now, rows ridged.
Dealing with our previous issue of the soil spreading out to five feet instead of the 3.5 to 4 feet we had tilled---we used a blade to push the soil back to the middle of the rows. This ridging will also improve surface drainage away from the plants and rows and into the row middles where we have established sod.
Rural water rolled in and finished the project in less than 5 hours.
Marking where the vines will soon be planted.
Probably not the most efficient method... But the only one that we came up with that worked...
Originally Will was thinking he would be able to follow the 24 foot row marks Seth had made, and drag 3 chains attached to a pole, to mark every 8 feet. This failed miserably as it didn't leave as mark as shown in the video below.
Originally Will was thinking he would be able to follow the 24 foot row marks Seth had made, and drag 3 chains attached to a pole, to mark every 8 feet. This failed miserably as it didn't leave as mark as shown in the video below.
No worries... We're not afraid of manual labor. We cut a PVC pipe to be 24 feet, and followed the marks Seth had made and marked every 8 feet with spray paint and moved to the next 24 foot line. Lots of walking...
This was early in the process... The x's turned into dots later in the day.
What our diet has been consisting of...
Getting Closer!!
The auguring started off great! It was taking about 30 seconds from beginning the hole, to moving to the next.
That is, until it broke down...
Will stopped in to Caswell Plumbing in Inwood to pick up more PVC. Will told of his woes of his broken down skid steer... The gentleman at Caswell's offered their skid steer for us to use!
And again, we were movin'.
Dad brought over his telahandler, and we were really moving.
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