Sunday, June 14, 2015

Linepost Pounding Help in the Vineyard

I might have been stretching the truth just a little in my previous blog where I wrote about the Anatomy of an Endpost and said at the end that it has only taken us 3 years. The sentence implied that we were all done with the trellis system and the truth of the matter is we have 10 more rows of lineposts to put in. So, on Wednesday, we started with the first of the ten rows and it took us 6 hours! My husband has devised a great system using an Atlas Copco hydraulic pounder to accomplish this task and last year, we were getting pretty proficient at linepost pounding. Our record is putting in 33 lineposts in about 3 hours.
Our friend Barry, came to help us on Thursday morning and we accomplished this task in 2 hours! So, early on Friday morning, he brought along Mary and the 4 of us pounded posts. We beat the 2 hour time by 8 minutes so Barry was in the mood to see if he could better that time, so we did one more row of posts. This time, we didn't finish the row, all of us were flagging and we had to call it, so this row DNQ (did not qualify---golf speak). Barry was off to Seattle on Saturday in preparation for the PGA Golf US Open where he will be putting in 110 hour weeks. Four rows done, only 6 more to go! Thanks very much for the help, guys!

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