Rocky, you ain't got nothing on these guys!

A couple of weeks ago as I was returning from a shopping trip I stopped the car and looked long and hard at the entrance way to my farm.

It was in truth no different to all my neighbours entrance ways, littered with rock and stone, weeds growing, but I wanted mine to be tidier. So with this in mind I asked Diego and Natalia (Workawayers from the US) if they would help me, whilst at the same time doing a couple of other projects.

What! I hear you cry, you are one of these people who do two or three things at the same time. Well yeah I am, but you will see why as you look at the photos and I explain.

So here goes....

First we cut back the weeds, then we set about collecting the stone to put into the trailer.

As the morning wore on it got warmer and warmer which is why we get up early and work during the cooler hours of the morning during the summer months. 

 

As usual we were under close supervision, this time by Russell.

 



 

As we worked we also collected larger stones from off the top of one of the other walls. 



 

As well as dug some up. 

After this mammoth rock was dug out we started to call Diego, 'Diego the Determined' because he was not going to give in and let me help him, it had become personal and he was going to show that big fat stone who was boss and that was that.

We then transported all the stone both dug out and collected to an area of wall that was just too low for what I wanted, which is... To help keep the sheep and pigs I am hoping to get in the near future from escaping.

 

Over a period of several days we kept on adding more and more stone to the low wall which in total probably extended to well over 75 metres in length.
 

Till what used to be knee height was now almost hip height.
 

Oh look, my boy Toby, checking up on our progress.   

If this wasn't enough we then went on to build a wall where previously there hadn't been one.

We dug a trench so that the double skin of base stones were sitting in the ground and not just simply on top. We then filled the middle in with the dirt we had dug out of the trench, raising the walls as we went along.
 

Until it too was hip height and withstood the kick test from both Diego and I.

 

Well done guys, you should be rightly proud of that wall.

Toby approved. What more could you ask for.

 

But what happened to the entrance way I hear you ask.

 

Ta dah! One nice and tidy entrance way, now all that I have to do is do the rest of the area in front of this wall and we will be as smart as can be.