Diggin’

There is a little triangle of grass that we have never worked as part of the field, across the road by the chicken barns.  So we decided it was kinda silly to be paying rent on it for nothing.  We’ve cut it for hay (grass) in years gone by, but it is not even very good for that anymore.  So we are digging in a couple short runs of tile drain.  We’ve done that before in other places and just rented one of those mini-excavators, but this time it wasn’t available the day we wanted it, so we have a little compact John Deere tractor with loader and back-hoe on it.  I think it is actually a more powerfull engine, so with a little luck it will be faster, not slower.  It is just a little harder to move along as you dig.  I’ll probably have it down to a science by the time we are done!