I thought I would share my experience of installing some water line and two livestock watering facilities. With these two waters I now have a total of six Mirafount waters for the cattle. The project began in mid/late October and was wrapped up a couple weeks ago.
Here are the things I did wrong... It could be done in considerably less time working on it full time, I should have started this thread sooner with updates as the job progressed and took more pictures of certain steps. However... other things were going on at the time like actually doing the work and it just didn't happen that way.
At any rate I sincerely hope you all enjoy looking and ask questions. :thumbsup:
The project began with finding the stub end of the old water line we had left when we installed the last trough, 8 plus years ago. This 1 1/2" sch40 line serves the whole farm. I remembered where it was within about 10 feet and was able to dig it up with the backhoe with out damaging it. I then dug the first couple hundred feet of ditch with the backhoe toward the fence line, after crossing the fence it was a straight shot across open field with the rented Ditch Witch. My friends Dad is newly retired and according to his wife and sons needed to get out of the house. So I recruited him to run the Ditch Witch while I ran to get the pipe and do other things around the farm. This saved me two days of riding that stupid thing and it only cost me the rental, lunch, 12 Coors Lights and some gift cards (which he insisted were unnecessary). In two days time we had completed an estimated 2,740' of ditch between us or 137 x 20' joints of pipe.
Here are the things I did wrong... It could be done in considerably less time working on it full time, I should have started this thread sooner with updates as the job progressed and took more pictures of certain steps. However... other things were going on at the time like actually doing the work and it just didn't happen that way.
At any rate I sincerely hope you all enjoy looking and ask questions. :thumbsup:
The project began with finding the stub end of the old water line we had left when we installed the last trough, 8 plus years ago. This 1 1/2" sch40 line serves the whole farm. I remembered where it was within about 10 feet and was able to dig it up with the backhoe with out damaging it. I then dug the first couple hundred feet of ditch with the backhoe toward the fence line, after crossing the fence it was a straight shot across open field with the rented Ditch Witch. My friends Dad is newly retired and according to his wife and sons needed to get out of the house. So I recruited him to run the Ditch Witch while I ran to get the pipe and do other things around the farm. This saved me two days of riding that stupid thing and it only cost me the rental, lunch, 12 Coors Lights and some gift cards (which he insisted were unnecessary). In two days time we had completed an estimated 2,740' of ditch between us or 137 x 20' joints of pipe.