Long Week – Day 5
Wilson pipe here we come! We’re off to pick up the miles of irrigation pipe needed to fill sweat dug trenches! We also got 18/10 or 10 core irrigation wire from S&W pipes to run the dozen electrical valves. It’s a real spinkler system we’ve got here, fully automated and all. I say, all the vineyardos will be jealous of Ricardo Vineyardo’s pipes. Pipe loading is boring when you’re 5’4″. OMG! How long does it take to pick up pipe? We gotta go to Lowes then, Starbucks, then Home Depot. Krappe it’s already 1:00 PM. It won’t be 2 till we...
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THE longest day yet. Boo. Confucius Farmer says “If you ever do half a days work, don’t drive over it; or it will be a whole days work!” In other words after renting the Ditch Witch trench digger to make the holes for irrigation pipes, Richard made an escapade down the new road and accidentally drove over the new ditch causing us to have to RE-DIG the ditch. Confucius Farmer blister o! Then I got stung by an abeja. So between my war wounds from last Sunday’s cat fight, my derby injured knee and the thousand prickers embedded in my palm from the fight with a tumbleweed,...
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Whirlwind trip around Wenatchee! 8:30 AM: Wilson Orchard & Vineyard Supply After accidentally knocking on the door of a private residence we find Wilson (down the hill, like the sign said). Let’s talk irrigation pipes, two inch lines, solenoid valves, risers, drip line, uphill along the slope, 30 psi, filters, 30 microns, crimper, $0.27 per foot, $100 per valve, butterfly valve, pre-designed, 50 meters, 333 feet, three lines, feeder pipe, NE quadrant… Oh My! 10:00 AM: United Pipes Quote number two, that valve is cheaper, that line is more expensive, WHOLESALERS only, cash...
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Long Day, Short Week. 6AM, off to rent the Bobcat tractor with a shank fitted plow box in the back and a dump bucket in the front. Carving roads, making tracks, kicking up dust. Jon Farmer (not to be confused with Farmer Jon) was tearing up the place all day. I cut new tracks up the center and all around to divide the property into four quadrants. Ang on the other hand got stuck with the shovel, digging up apple roots, weeds and whatever else was in the newly carved road. And we had to test out the road. It worked great at holding up the jeep. J.H. Added by WineGirl. Click on the pic...
Read MoreLong Week – Day 1
We need to shank! A visit to Wally World, Wilbur-Ellis and the Manson Water Reclamation office all brought us one step further to farmdom. It was a rather short day, 73° with very nice working weather, but lots of big decisions have been made. We started in the office with morning coffee, headed to the vineyard and measured the road. 180 meters, was it? This culminated in a decision to move the road to bisect the vineyard into four quadrants. But in order to move the road we had to order up some supplies. Thus, a trip to Wally World got us two new hats and bunches of batteries to operate...
Read MoreChelan: May 15th-16th, 2009
This weekend we had a guest visitor added to the redneck crew: Benrique, Javier’s long lost brother. He was certainly a welcome addition to the chainsaw committee, leaving no tree standing. We moved truckload after truckload of fallen wind breaks again, and still didn’t completely clear the road. We did find two new friends. Sallie and Saul, the blue-tailed Skinks. And we did have great luck in the agua department this time. Javier and Ricardo managed to hit the jackpot spewing irrigation water out of every broken PVC pipe. The verdict: New irrigation system. Sincerely...
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