With some nice Monday weather, we're making a big push to finish Graden verticutting the approaches. With a nice day in store tomorrow, we hope to get this completed and then focus on other tasks.
We're off to the races down the 1st hole! the main line is buried 36" deep and we hand-dug the trench for the first 50 yards of the 1st hole. This is because this area is filled with "land mines." By land mines, I mean fiber optic cables, telephone wires etc. that their exact location hasn't been recorded when they were installed over the years. Rather than risk damaging one of these important wires, it's easier to hand dig the area. It's time consuming, but with 15 people with shovels in hand, it's not too bad. The Town of Highlands ground penetrating radar machine helps me locate about 80% of what's underground but the machine is by no means perfect. The smaller the diameter pipe or wire is, the easier it is to miss.