Yesterday I spent the morning and afternoon in the yard, and because of an incredible machine, we only needed one half of one day to pull all our sprinkler pipes. Those of you who have put in a sprinkling system before (or even if you haven't...) might be thinking, "Big deal. It should only take a few hours."
Um...not where we live.
We live in the Rocky Mountains. The hill on which our house sits isn't exactly a mountain, but it's definitely full of rocks. Last fall I watched our across-the-street neighbors hire a crew to put in their sprinklers. Those poor workers. They trenched, then had to shovel-dig the rest of the way for their PCV system.
We decided on something different.
We hired a neighbor's John Deere 60G.
It worked AMAZINGLY well. We hooked up the pipes to the claw The claw dug into the ground pulling the pipe, and the 60G backed up moving rocks and boulders out of the way as the pipe reached its destination. In a few hours, we were done.
It would have taken at least a day with a trencher, and a month with shovels and picks. Even though I did a lot of shovel digging yesterday, and I was exhausted by the day's end, I am so grateful for modern machines and the incredible people who created them. Literally life saving.
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