Saturday fun for boys

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Bud bought a new piece of commercial property for a satellite yard for their business. It needed a fence across the front. He decided he wanted a forty foot double gate. Problem was there was an old circular drive and he wanted the gate in the middle.

He asked me to put in the new culvert. I'm the accomodating type.

I should have started taking pictures at the beginning. I didn't. But as it became more and more fun I just had to share.

This is the new home for the sixty two foot culvert. It was the bar ditch. You can see I've already removed one old culvert and made it into a bar ditch. That packed rock driveway didn't really want to come up. There was a discussion. I won.

 

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Here's the view from the other end where the old culvert is still in place. I had to keep access open for other workers.

 

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This is Iris and the new culvert. It's casing, two twenties and a twenty two. I welded them up and then Iris put the completed unit in place.

 

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New culvert in it's place.

 

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This is the old culvert in place. It's the old concrete four foot lengths fitted up. Works fine. Just a pain in the butt to remove.

 

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It's a lot less of a pain in the butt if you have removable forks for your tractor. You remove one and use the other as a pickemupper.

 

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When I mentioned winning the discussion with the packed rock in the old driveway. Well, that wasn't really a fair discussion. I had an ace in my pocket.

 

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And it's an ace that's really nice when you're in that situation where only an ace can help.

 

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Here's a close up of what an ace looks like.

 

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End of the day, lots of fun.