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Water Project

Posted on September 12, 2020September 12, 2020

Growing up, Victoria reminisced, there was hardly a summer we didn’t work on a water project. I imagine she’s pretty accurate. Water means a great deal in this high desert country. If you’re not developing a new source, there are rusty metal tanks to replace, plastic pipeline to dig up and repair, electric fence to set up along creeks, and the massive search for electrical shorts in wells.

Today, I went along for the “before” photos of a repair and expansion scheme for our Mesa pasture. This is the pasture where we pump out of the 500′ deep Otter Creek Canyon. We used to use the old Rife Ram Pump, but it wore out after something like 70 years of service! We pump up to three tanks on the edge of the canyon, and fill a storage tank that can fill a lower tank when necessary.

Two out of the three tanks here will be replaced, moved, and tapped into existing lines.

Daniel double checked the location of private, state, and BLM land with a GPS. (That’s Bureau of Land Management!)

We talked and discussed and figured and planned. I even had an idea that Vernon really liked! I’m not much help on pipe size, or if they need this fitting or that… but giving new insight into what they have in mind… I can do!

(often, it’s just that I don’t understand everything, but by asking questions, I can help them see things in a different way!)

Vernon and Daniel took off walking, scoping out a different location… and I smiled. We’ve said for years Daniel stands and walks just like Vernon… here’s photographic proof!

I’ll be back and take some “in progress” photos…

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3 thoughts on “Water Project”

  1. Joanne says:
    September 15, 2020 at 7:14 AM

    An amazing blue sky. Look forward to updates. Now I don’t know what if any UK TV you get in WY. But if you want to see a different ranch life , check out The Yorkshire Shepherdess. Amanda, husband and 9 (yes9) kids live on the highest hill farm in England, Ravenseat in Yorkshire. And yes, videos show it can be as windy as WY. There are sheep, some cattle and horses. Wonderful TV program . A lot of hard work just like your family.

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    1. Carol says:
      September 15, 2020 at 10:26 PM

      We get some UK tv, but I will do a search for Yorkshire Shepherdess. It sounds interesting!

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  2. Larry Grappy says:
    September 13, 2020 at 7:31 AM

    Ranchers or farmers, their work is never done. We appreciate them.

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Since 2008, I’ve kept this photographic journal of life on a Wyoming ranch.  I share ranch work, my family, crafts and DIY, my English Shepherd, Bravo, and a love for this land.  Enjoy this red dirt country!

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