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Septic Work

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septic repairIt is a long story, but suffice it to say we needed to get a little septic work done. We have to pump our our system and also find and check all of our distribution lines. What fun…..I get to find out where all of our sh*t goes!!! Above and below you will find pictures of the work we did on Friday/Saturday and almost all of Monday and Tuesday. We found out that the system is OK but the 4th box was damaged, so I fixed it. In addition, I installed risers for the first 2 boxes so that I can easily turn the flow on/off to those leach lines.

Also, for November, all of my time will be spent on doing “weed prevention”……ie, mowing, hand weeding, weed whacking, mowing, laying weed cloth and covering it with mulch. Again….why did I give up my day job!

Nov 1 6.5 hours (septic and mowing)
Nov 3 6 hours prevention
Nov 7 4.5 hours weed prevention

Finding the Septic

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original septic findingIn order to prepare the land, we are adding amendments and tilling them into the soil. On the side of the house is our septic system. For the bulk of the parcel we will till to 4 feet. Over the septic I had to find how low it was buried so we would not hit it and set the tines correctly on the tractor. I started by using a shovel, but this time of year the clay in the soil makes digging almost impossible…..so I remembered I had a jack hammer that I used at the last house for digging holes in clay. Made the task a lot easier, but still a lot of hard work. I found the septic about 3 feet down.