Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Starting the sprinklers!

John has been working in our backyard, super hard, getting our sprinkler system in! John used a.....I am sure I am going to spell this wrong.....Ditchwitch to burrow trenches in the ground for the pipes. Here they are getting it unloaded from the truck.

It's a little scary looking, but super fun to watch do it's thang!


The King of the Backyard Project!!!




After he trenched with the machine, he still had to shovel out a bunch of dirt to get everything just right. In fact, he "narrowed down" our shovel because it was too wide!

Here is John working in the front. He was more worried about doing it out here because of the gas lines!

For those of us who were kids in the 80's.....remember DigDug? Our yard looked like that!


After John got the pipes in he filled the trenches with some dirt, then water, let it soak through, then more dirt and compacted it all down. It's been a HUGE project for him, but he ROCKS, as always!

The Ditchwitch in action!

2 comments:

Diane said...

Noisy little sucker but I) want one too! Looks like fun and you get to ride it too! Gtreat job John! Looking forward to seieng finsihed project and green grass. Yay!

Ron said...

Lot of work, but looks like John was having a way to much fun! OOOO, OOOO!