The Never-ending Post Hole Augering Drama at Lupin Farm

[Bronco Hollow]

Patiently waiting for the next episode.....

Living in the mountains...well you see a little rock kinda buried and its a gigantic granite boulder! We paid for a company to come and drive T-post and set oil pipe for us lol... much funner watching than doing.

 

[lupinfarm]

Hahaha... Mini that is actually pretty hilarious, a similar thing happened to us as well but the auger got stuck on a rock and wouldn't reverse. It took an hour and 3 people to get it out again.

Dan hasn't been back yet, his auger is still broken (and he's fuming with the company for not putting a rush on it!). We actually had a layover horse come in yesterday, her name is Tetley and she's staying with us until the end of August. Her family are in the military and have been stationed to Saskatchewan so she's on pasture here until her trailer can be arranged for the end of August to be shipped out west. She's a huge, probably around 16.2hh OTTB, Fleabitten and has AMAZING ground manners. Luna is rather pleased to have another horse out there on pasture with her, and they made quick friends which I'm thankful for because I was not too happy about maybe having to split up the bottom pasture so Tetley and Luna could be separated should they take a disliking to each other.

ANYWAY, I got all the T-posts in the fenceline we share with Jim's hay field, I was going to put wood posts in there but in the spring that fence line gets really wet and I'd rather reset T's than reset wood posts. I also took a stab at hand digging out post holes for the small/solitary paddock at the top by the recently toppled drive shed, I got down to about 32" and I hit a rock but I put the post in anyway, 32" is A LOT of soil for us so you can't turn up your nose at it! I packed that post good and tight and it's fantastic. Tomorrow I'm going to dig the rest of that fenceline, and then start working on the other two lines of posts for that small paddock (It's like 150' x 115' so it would suit Luna by herself or a small pony by itself). I swear if I have to dig all those posts by hand, it WILL get done! We've also got the price list coming up for the run-in shed that has to go up before the end of the summer... a 10x10 run in shed for the middle paddock, it has to be a floating run in shed because we don't have enough soil to sink posts for it.

 

[lupinfarm]

Well it looks as if Dan is not willing to get back to us, It's all the clay I swear! .. I started digging the other day and I have so far completed 4 posts, dug, tamped, and insulators installed. I'm trying to get the small top field fenced. We can dig more or less 3' in most places which is fantastic news to us! ... and clay is awesome for tamping.

 

[2468herdsrgr8]

 

[lupinfarm]

Well I posted on Kijiji looking for someone to auger posts, a guy calls us to say that he came come out tomorrow to look at it, so that's gooooddd. We also got a butt load more of the buck fencing done, and we're hoping to have that buck fenced paddock finished by the end of next week.

On top of that I got an email from someone asking if we did beginners trail rides. We DO NOT offer trail riding, we're only on 8 acres. No where in our layover board advertising does it say that we do trail rides, why do people assume?! and I would NEVER take someone for a trail ride who has never ridden a horse before -_-

 

[lupinfarm]

Oh yeah, and I had my last riding lesson for a while, I have to take a break from riding to get a job and help with the farm stuff, but I think it ended on a great note.. I jumped an 18 inch jump, two jumps with a trot pole between them. First time me and Dezi went over at a trot, and then we came in at the canter, then in at the trot and shifted up to the canter for the second jump.

I am so proud of myself I haven't jumped since I was 14 and even then I was terrified.

 

[2468herdsrgr8]

Thats great !!! I am happy you ended your lessons on a happy thought !! my fingers hoping this fella can finish your hole diggin' ....

 

[lupinfarm]

AHHHHH... We had a guy lined up to come out today at 10AM to auger the posts in. He came out to look at the place the other day and said he'd come Sunday. it's Sunday it's 12:47pm and he is a no show. I could understand if he didn't want to come and get hit by lightening because it's thundering out, but at least CALL.


I feel like these posts are NEVER going to get put in, ughhh.

On the bright side, I finally got poles for our jumps and I am attempting to cut the corners off to make them rounder and then paint them.

I think I'll have to break out the table saw -_-

 

[lupinfarm]

Trevor from Wolf Creek Equestrian is here today to try and see if he can auger our poles in. Hopefully the clay co-operates with his auger and we can get all 70 poles in without having to resort to the superdooper expensive man from Roblin who can drill through anything (Trevor charges $6 a hole, the guy from Roblin because he can drill through anything charges $12 a hole).

I need some luck today people!

 

[2468herdsrgr8]

drill drill drill !!!
Dig dig dig !!!!