Escape From the Prison Planet

[DRIVEN]

I moved a bunch of dirt today. 7 hours on the tractor. I started with the area under my big weeping willow. Previous owner mad a poor attempt at creating a pond so I knocked down all the berms and dirt piles.


I pruned the apple trees and Asian pear last week.

Then I carved out my driveway and cleaned up some of the drainage. It's not completely done but way closer.








Then I swapped the blade for the brush hog and mowed the lower pasture. After that I mowed the lawn down there. Long day but I got a lot done.

 

[fleming442]

That's a long walk to the shop.

 

[Turbo Zach]

Looks like you are almost ready for me? I will get the camper hooked.

 

[DRIVEN]

Looks like you are almost ready for me? I will get the camper hooked.

Almost. Still have some gravel, plumbing and electrical to do.

That's a long walk to the shop.

Slip N Slide and a chair lift on order.

 

[Texas82GP]

Just need a fully enclosed, heated UTV for the commute.

 

[DRIVEN]

It certainly would have been more convenient to have it at the top of the hill across the driveway from the house but I really don't want it to be any more conspicuous than necessary. For about half the year it'll be almost unnoticeable from the highway or even the driveway entrance because of tree coverage. Long term plan is to add some evergreens to help obscure it year round.

 

[pagrunt]

That's a long walk to the shop.

Just need a fully enclosed, heated UTV for the commute.

He's got a secret tunnel from the basement to the bottom of the hill to make his walk easier. Just won't show us.

 

[DRIVEN]

^^This guy gets it^^

 

[TURNA]

 

[DRIVEN]

Did some more antisocial distancing yesterday with my dad and a few of his buddies. Toooo many grandpas. There were 3 of us that wanted to cover territory and the other 3 just wanted to cruise at about 15mph so we didn't get nearly as far as we'd planned.




140 year old cemetary in the middle of nowhere. Old school house in the background.


We rode through the wild horse range. This one stallion was the only one I saw all day.



They're starting to fill some of the irrigation canals so it won't be long until the farmers start watering. That means the runoff will soon be flowing through my ditch. Today I removed 2 little walkways / bridges that are no longer necessary, leaving one that's wide enough to drive the tractor over. That left me with 2 8' long 12" culvert sections. I decided to use the nicer one to piggyback the culvert that runs under my driveway and is the further most upstream on my property. After cutting 2" off the end, I attached it to the existing culvert with some metal straps. Then I encased the joint with quickcrete and buried it. Brown dog was ever vigilant but not terribly helpful.





I had these short leftover railroad ties so I made a little bridge about halfway down.


When I'm done pushing dirt around and building fences, the culvert and bridge will both be inside the lower pasture.


Finished the day by washing a couple motorcycles and taking a short ride on the Indian. Still haven't dropped the carb and cleaned the jets on it. Probably getting the garden set up next.