Animals

We have a woodlot

The farm is 13.15 acres in farm deferral, an acre for the home, and an acre for a woodlot. Our woodlot is primarily tall Douglas fir trees, but there are a few Oregon ash trees on one side.  The fir trees are in the southwest corner of the property (behind […]

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Sprinkler problem solved

Sunday morning, we resumed irrigating Ferguson field…but the sprinkler wasn’t working correctly.  It was either not rotating, or rotating very slowly.  The impulse action was very subdued, and the spray pattern was different. Our first thought was: the pump is broken!  But the easier thing to check was the sprinkler. […]

Goulds 53555 irrigation pump
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More irrigation today with new pipe

We needed more distribution pipe to reach the far corners of a couple of fields with our irrigation system, so we bought some poly pipe today. Actually, we picked up a 300-foot roll of K-Line, a kind of poly pipe that works with the fittings we’ve been using. We also […]