All the water pumped into the tile line, which went under the yard, the road and into goat corral, had to be pumped out to begin the next to the last step of the whole process.
It was time to create the new waste ditch and to cover up the old waste ditch
This ditch is necessary to take the water from our place and put it back into the system for those who live on Saw Mill Mesa to have irrigation water
Gradually, everything started to take shape in the corral
Nice.
The old huge swath through the corral is gone and a new straight ditch in place.
Now we move to putting in the ten sticks of blue pipe
The trench is 8 feet deep….who knew
The Yellow broken bits are the broken tile line
Ten sticks worth
Gradually over the long process of the day
We finished!
YAY!
Tomorrow it’s Terry and I doing all the little bits of handwork. Which I won’t show you.
DONE!
New Tile Line. Broken Tile Line repaired and necessary tile line replaced!
FINISHED!!!
🙂 🙂 🙂
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
I’ve found this whole sequence fascinating Linda. It’s given me a sense of the skill needed to provide water, and how connected you are with others down (and up) the line. Thankyou.
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You are most welcome! I stand amazed at what those old-time people knew and how they got it done!
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Loud hurrahs! Well done, the Irrigation Team 🙂
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DONE! Now to begin the real reason for water…farming! 🙂
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Well, of course!
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🙂
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Congratulations on a BIG job done! I hope you found some time to celebrate, or at least to rest.
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Yes! A huge job finished. Now we start farming in earnest! YAY!
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how many places did the drain pipe have to go? From photos it looks like 2 or three lines.
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How many places? It goes from the field next to us, under our road, onto our farm, under the lawn at Shannon’s and into the goat pen. That is the tile line from this lay of land. Other farms have tile lines under them. We are only responsible for the the tile line ON (under) our farm. Everyone else is responsible for the tile lines on (under) their farms.
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Wow! So interesting! I had no idea what it takes to irrigate. I am in northern Colorado and it is so so dry here. Pretty amazing what farmers can accomplish with irrigation!
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The the secret to life….water! But you know that! It’s nice to see you here on the blog, Susan!
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Are you responsible for all of the cost or does Colorado assist each farm since it helps everyone in your area and, by extension, the state?
I’m exhausted just looking at all of that. It’s fascinating, tho…
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Once it gets onto our land we are responsible for everything…the maintenance, the care and the cost….all costs. We also pay money to the Ditch company to the tune of way more than the taxes for the farm
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OMG. What if you refused to replace the pipes?
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Then our farm would be full of water which never would go away.
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Ouch. I see the point, now.
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Yes
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Excellent description of this hard “Yakka”.
Hope all goes well for a good year.
You and Terry deserve it.
Colin
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Thanks, Colin. It was lots of work, very interesting and expensive beyond belief.
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Yay! For sure a job well done! Congratulations!
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It’s a huge relief! Thank you!
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Hooray! Good job to you all! And so interesting. Thank you for sharing this whole process with us!
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You are most welcome!
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Very few people know the hard work and expense involved in irrigation water. So glad you are finished with this big project!
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Me too. It should make this farming season so much better.
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Lulu: “Our Dada says that he once spent an entire summer digging a French drain in the front yard and out into the woods of their house in New York.”
Charlee: “He says at the time that seemed like a big job.”
Chaplin: “But now he sees he was just a piker!”
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Hand digging would be a HUGE job….HUGE. We cheated and had big machines!
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Wonderful Linda! 👏
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