Fixing the Well

Today, Brian and I, and knuckle, worked together on a well project.

The well sits at a corner where fences on three different meadows

connect and it feeds two different watering troughs that overlap into two fields each. Previously, the well pump was powered by a windmill, but as you can see from the photo, the windmill has had a rough life and is being replaced by an electric pump that will be connected to a generator. We are suspending the pump about 55 feet into a 65 foot well.

These huge tires will be used as watering troughs, and the water will be pumped into them,

(Brian will pour concrete into the opening at the base of the trough where the center of the tire is) and he is building an overflow system that will drain extra water into 3 different ponds in the surrounding fields. The trough actually straddles the fence line so cows will be able to get to it from multiple fields.

We took a long lunch today and went into Midas (photos). There is just one business in Midas, the restaurant/bar. The couple that owns it knows our name....which makes it that much more fun.

For Memorial Day weekend we went into Winnemucca and met some friends who came down from Grants Pass to visit. It also happened to be the weekend of the annual "Run-a-Mucca", a motorcycle run. It was a fun day, and we ended it with a BBQ up at Squaw with all the ranch folks and a dozen or so folks from Midas.