The last post showed the field being ripped. That was the last week of September. Then we had Lambtown–not that it has anything to do with this, but it’s how I put the dates in perspective and remember where I was..

On October 3 when Brett started discing with the L-disk I taught a class at Lambtown. After that Brett had other work to do in Oregon. I think he thought it would also be helpful for the grass to dry out even more. So he didn’t get back to this until October 18.

In the meantime, the irrigation supplies arrived.

It was unloaded on the square of pasture that is not going to be part of the project.

A few days before Brett was going to level the field he brought the land plane.

It’s difficult to tell the scale when you see the equipment working in the field. In this photo I’m standing near the back tire of the tractor. Brett tells me that those tires cost $8000/pair.

He also brought this tower holding a gadget that helps to laser level the field.

The tractor has he other laser and some how they talk to each other and the scraper and bucket of the level is raised or lowered depending on the desired slope of the field

This stage took about a day and a half.

Brett finished this on October 18.