Finally we are finished with all the gated pipe! What a long job. Although, to be fair we didn’t work at it steady, but here and there until the wind got to be too much or we got tired.
Then we would stop and go work on something else. Blade helped us lots. A thirteen year old boy really is a big help.
Thank heavens for 4-wheelers! To have to carry… by hand… all those pipe would have been over-whelming, although, when we started out farming Terry and I DID lay the pipe by hand.
Anyway, Thankfully we are finally done with the pipe. NOW next step is to mark out the alfalfa, clean the cement ditch, lay out the siphon tubes and start water! Once the water is started it won’t be turned off until harvest.
Twice a day every day (more times, if the water is short) we will change the water. Terry says moving water is just like milking a cow…twice a day no matter what! 🙂
Your friend on a western Colorado Farm,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
I’m glad you had Blade and the 4-wheelers to help with this big job. But now it is done.
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It was a huge job, George! And yes we are finally done with that part.
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that puts things in perspective for me – being raised in dairy country.
glad you got that pipe row done!
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Me too. We have three places where we use the gated pipe…to have one stick or many break is a huge job to fix one. And the broken one always seems to be in the middle somewhere. 🙂
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I’m still learning so much about what is involved in irrigation.
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Here…anyway! Other places pump from the under ground aquifers or rivers and use over-head sprinklers. Here we use the same water over and over until it hits the river.
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Are you still growing pinto beans?
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Yes! We will plant those the first week in June. You want some again?
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Psh! Is that a trick question? Of course!
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We are getting thunderstorms today. We really don’t need the rain right now … I wish I could send a little your way! 😉
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The ground is dry but rain right now would set us back. It you send it,please put it in the mountains! 🙂
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Got ya! We have very anxious farmers around here, ready to do field-work.
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They are a solid type but easily moved plastic variety of piping for this water, aren’t they?
I’m sorry I have forgotten.
I can’t remember either if you store them but that doesn’t seem logical after each
crop!
So what actually happens to these pipes once they are put in place?
Can they be used again?
Replacing on a yearly basis would seem to be a bugger of an expense!
Yes I can see that Blade would be a bloody good help for Terry.
Now fingers crossed for that co-operative weather, eh?
Cheers
Colin
PS; Getting cooler here – nothing like what Colorado cool is like,
thank God, ha ha!
Bright and sunny morning – 7.00 am Wednesday 8th.
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They stay there year round. But sometimes the cows find out its fun to walk on the pipe and kick it. When they do the pipe break if they are old…everything gets brittle over time…it seems. Of course its always a pipe that is hard to get too.
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Wow – that looks like a big job. My back hurts even if I just do a little yard work so I’m impressed by how hard that all must have been! Yes, good to have a 13 year old boy around! 🙂 I could use one of those every once in a while.
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I just wish they lived closer…but it isn’t meant to be.
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The longer we do things, the more mechanical and young helpers are welcomed. Thank you all for all you do and God bless!
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The mechanical is a huge blessing any more!
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Glad Blade could help you guys ~ What a big job!
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It was, but now done so we can move on!
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Yay! for a big job completed.
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Yes YAY!!!!
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That is a big job done! Yes those young men are really good helpers! 🙂
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And they LIKE being helpers, which is really nice!
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How hard you work! There is so much heavy stuff to be done. But it must be satisfying to have the pipe laid.
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Oh, yes, satisfying and critical to the whole irrigation of the farm! YAY done!
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Irrigation is a lot of work isn’t it! But where would we be without it.
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