Actually, it probably will not be the last ditch. But we have broken ground on the next stage of the rainwater catchment project.
This is the trench that will run water out of the tank and splice it into the line running out to the pasture.
And this is why hand tools for digging rather than power tools. On the left, you can see the pipe that runs to the French drain, running across the middle you can see the low-voltage wire that powers, the propane tank, as well as the propane line. That would have been an expensive, and potentially dangerous thing to hit with a backhoe.
Of course, here where we are cutting across the hard packed driveway, we begin to reconsider that philosophy.
Not to worry, just under 2 feet of hard pan, is nice, soft, silty dirt that is a dream to cut through until you hit a rock the size of your head every five minutes.
Little Farm in the Big City 