Acquiring a new water tank meant more work for the tractor. A trench was dug with the backhoe which carries the water from the tank by gravity to the reservoir above the pond and there it can be drained into the pond, or the greenhouse and garden. It also carries an underground electircal cable in order to get electricity to the barn.
Moving and Placing a Water Tank
Super-Moon over Parry Bay, Metchosin
Pond Dwellers Spring 2014
Another tractor transplant
This time I moved a Sugar Maple that I had planted in the upper field to make way for the expansion of the Organic garden for Wind-whipped farm.
Lambing Time in Metchosin
In our pastures these days the lambs of John and Lorraine Buchanan of Parry Bay Sheep Farm are playing in the fields. — Grazing under the Garry oaks.
The Pond – Sept 2011
Building the Tractor Barn
The tractor had to do some work this summer in order to have a dry place to live. The pictures below show the process involved in lifting the manufactured roof rafters or trusses from Slegg lumber into place with the front-end loader of the tractor. This was the only part in the construction that I never undertook to make myself (wise move!)
The roof trusses are supported by beams on the three vertical posts on each side, not by the walls which stand on the three horizontal raw logs of each of the side walls, placed on an old concrete barn foundation.
Constructing the Pond: summer 2010
Widening the driveway and putting in drainage.
In April of 2010, I decided to make more room for parking in front of our house and to put a drainage pipe in to take off the extra water coming down from the upper field. So the tractor was essential for digging the packed driveway soil.