Farm Duties..
Today Phoebe and I were at Home Farm for a 9am start on farm duties - this is a rotational basis where all students spend two days a term working on the farm outside of the scheduled timetable.
This is so that we can get even more hands on experience of an everyday working farm and be put to use at the same time.
Our task today was to carry out the dredging of the muck heap drainage system, to allow the effluent to move through it and in to the 30,000 litre tank buried in the small woodland adjacent to the muck heaps.
Our morning session seemed to go quite well, we got stuck in - removing each of the 4 bolts on each grate along the drainage channel with a socket and ratchet, before scooping out the mucky debris that had fallen in through the grooves and cleaning the grate before laying it back down and moving on to the next one.
However, the afternoon session felt a bit more tough as the bolts were a bit more tougher to remove, with us even having to chisel away at concrete and stones that were stuck down the side wells! In fact there was one that we just could not shift!
A good days work but not completed - we finished at 4 o clock as the light had almost gone on us! And a perfect winter job!
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