Infrastructure - water

Along with the fencing we need to supply water to the land.  Short term we are connected to the neighbors but we need to equip the land for the long term.  We plan to make use of any well/springs and/or put in a borehole for livestock or domestic use.  We have been in touch with a local water agency who plan to send out there diviner who will check out all possibilities - more on this in a later post.

For the moment we needed to get the alcathene pipework in.  A small digger was hired for the weekend, delivered on Friday afternoon, the excitement of a new toy...er...bit of kit, was too much to bear so the work was soon underway!

Family business - David, Woody and nephew Morgan

 The trench runs nearly the full length of the 2ac pony field, with junctions off for where two main water troughs will be sited.  It had to be deep, 4ft down to avoid pipes the freezing in winter and being disturbed with any work/fencing that might be carried out in the future. 

Much thought went into the location and depth of the pipe and junctions.

Infilling and leveling.

Checking for moles!

The furthest water trough was sited, leveled, and connected to water on the Saturday afternoon, however it took much longer than expected to dig/refill and level the rest of the trench, only finishing late Sunday evening.  We had hoped to have some spare time with the digger to move some of the massive rocks on site but that will have to wait for another day (and perhaps a bigger digger!)