Thursday, January 3, 2008

Work at the farm needs to be done, work on the dam at the south pond needed to be done, a washout up on one side of the draw that feeds into the south pond needs to be filled and an area up on the hill needs to be cleared of brush and dirt. I hired a backhoe and operator to do the work. He on the south end of the dam, it had washed out over 7 feet deep. We were able to get enough dirt from the side of the hill to fill this in. We then cut a new ditch into the side of the hill on the east end of the dam to create a spillway for the dam. See attached pictures. We were able to use the brush and dirt from the area up on the hill to fill in the washout on the south side of the draw that goes into the pond. I was also able to haul a bunch of metal that we had picked up from numerous places on the property and haul it to the recycle plant in Huntingdon. We also had to have a tree cut down that had died down by the barn. It was leaning towards the barn and was also next to the electrical wires that come into barn and property. The reason the pond looks so dirty in these pictures are the cows were still on the property and they would get in the ponds and keep them stirred up and dirty.

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