Hey, Hey, Hey, Goodbye - to the orange traveler

It will be a year to remember... a year that goes down in history @ LaKnoll... next year, 2009 there will be no mre orange traveler.. So back to the story. Lets just say for longer than I have been born, my dad has watered the corn with these things called travelers... they look like this...

Flashback - June 1997, some of you may remember... it was dry that year - like semi-drought dry, why do I remember this? Let's just say my dad was a little laid up.. small car, 3 wheeler accident and Trevor and I somehow drew the short straw and had to irrigate the corn so it wouldn't die - turns out you can't even pay someone to change the travelers... so long story short - Trevor in his infinate wisdom says - go do that one I'll do this one... hmmm ok I have no clue what I"m doing but I managed ok - except one day when it was really wet by the traveler and I jacknifed it while trying to back it up - after a lot of tears and Trevor and I basically throwing eachother down in the mud in the corn field, a few hours later my dad say, "oh ya that happens all the time" are you kidding me? WHY DIDN'T TREVOR KNOW THAT - do you know what kind of tounge lashing I just got for that? So - that was the beginning of the end for the orange traveler that I have so much love for (not to mention the run where you have to babysit it all night so it doesn't roll down the hill)

Anyway back to the story - lets just say the orange, and the green traveler (same thing - no jacknifing) are a ton of work (like instead of guantanamo we should make the terrorists do this work for tourture) yet still my dad keeps on running them. But NOT ANYMORE.... after some serious deliberation - I mean years of hemming and hawing... and some not to subtile threats from my mom, he made the big decision to buy a pivot. A pivot as opposed to travelers is much easier - he has 2 this will be his third and for those of you who have been to the farm it will water all the fields across from the house -that used to be traveler lanes (how will we get back to our hunting spots without those lanes I will never know... and what will the ariel photos look like without that crooked lane Trevor cut)??? The next pictures is not my dad's pivot, just an example of what it will look like when it is done...I will be updating the blog with the pivot building process as we go along... So far the parts have been delivered and the pad for the pivot tower has been poured (with a few names carved in the concrete) here are some pics...