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Posted by Srgnt Billko on January 19, 2007, 9:04 pm
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>> >> Our main garden is in a low spot and stays soggy in the spring so
>> >> we've been digging a drainage ditch through the woods (an old logging
>> >> road). I estimated it would be about 100' long but when I paced it off
>> >> today it seems closer to 200'. This is the ditch I started with a
>> >> garden plow on a small farm tractor a couple weeks ago. Now we are
>> >> digging by hand. The lower 50' was a wet spot too. We have a ditch dug
>> >> there and it is draining. From the garden we have about 30' dug and
>> >> trying to drain. Working both ends toward the middle. We've covered
>> >> the ditch with old black tarps and metal sheets so there is no frost
>> >> yet - but with the wind forecast we probably won't make much progress
>> >> tomorrow. If we get it draining it will aloww us to start planting a
>> >> couple weeks earlier than in most springs.
>> >>
>> > Hat's off Sarge. Is it really muddy, or no?
>> >
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>> You should see my workboots and the driver's floor of the Jeep LOL
>> Muddy - yes - and it's the real sticky kind.
>>
> I kinda figured it was, otherwise you could try a rented trencher against
> it.
>
> You're not trenching level ground either, right? Traction could be a
> problem.
>
> Sounds like real family fun with the better half out there digging with
> you. Hats off to a good woman!
>
No - it's reasonably level. The "trenchers" cost almost as much as a small
excavator and don't make a very wide ditch. Yes, she is a good woman. She
spent most of her life in cities and dealing with other sane adults so she
is learning a whole new way of life in the country with me. LOL
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