Tuesday, July 5th - got to the farm at 5:30am :sleeping. As oppossed to playing in the rocks, we're going to tackle a project that we've put off for quite a while now. There's a ditch between the house and the barn that has a few small trees (sycamore, thorns, cedar, and a willow) growing up. The ditch has such steep sides, it's just awkward to get at by hand or tractor. Enter the 175. We'll use the loader to shave the banks and cut a new slope. Dad and brother will be spreading the dirt with the Kubotas.
The main reason we've put off this little ditch project is that the stream that runs in it is spring fed and so even in the dryest of times it still has water in it. It's not extremely dry now, so I'll just have to be extra careful.
Here, I'm standing on the culvert to the road that leads to the barn. The land out from the culvert has a small pool of water for where the cattle would drink (if cattle still roamed here). It's somewhat sloped already and the ground is extremely soft - we're not touching this. We'll start out further down and take it all the way to the little hedge line where the road is.
Getting a good start on the cut. You can probably see the glare of the water to the left of the big pile in the middle.
The 175 was hungry and dirt was on the menu!
Got into a bees nest in the clump of trees to the far right. As soon it shook, they came after the loader. I thought I was on their menu, but they left me alone.