Well, the plumber didn't show. Actually, several didn't show. We called each plumber in our area, but they were either out on vacation, had other projects they were working on, or just plain didn't want to come out and work on a weekend. Well, I got news for you! We can't just sit there wasting all this water and electricity on a large water problem like this. So, we took matters into our own hands. We knew we had to begin by finding the root cause of the problem. Fortunately, there are no trees near the area, so we didn't actually have to deal with tree roots causing the problem. But, we do have rust issues to contend with so it didn't surprise us that there was a little hole that all this water was seeping out of. Finding that hole was another story.
As a plumber, you have to get down and dirty. So, this was a good opportunity for us to break out the big equipment and to show off what our Woods 1050 Backhoe can do.
Normally we use this backhoe when we are tiling the fields. But, as you can see, it works good for finding underground water pipes. We did find where the problem was and were able to fix it ourselves. However, none of us are master plumbers in our family, so fingers crossed that the fix holds. I don't want to have one of our main water lines on the farm leak during winter, especially when we are planning on bringing another group of cattle in.
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