First up was to hook up the post hole digger to the tractor. Of course it takes three guys to do this task.
They got the post hole digger hooked to the tractor but the auger didn't want to attach very easily. There solution...
Spencer stood on top of it while Carl beat the auger with a hammer. They eventually got it attached.
The post hole digger was bent so it wouldn't dig a hole straight into the ground. After deciding that they couldn't bend the post hole digger, Spencer thought to just shim up the tractor a few inches to straighten it out.
It still wasn't perfectly straight so Carl and Grant had to put a little muscle on it and that worked well enough.
They finally got the hole dug, next was putting the 30+ foot telephone pole into the hole.
The pole was big and very heavy. The placed the telephone pole into the hole 'Iwo Jima' style.
They crept their way closer to the end and got it in the hole.
But it was really crooked.
Again, their solution to get the pole straight...
Once they got the pole set straight the packed the dirt all around it. It's not going anywhere now.
When we built the house we knew we wanted a pole light so the electricians left a roll of cable for us on the side of the house to use for the pole light. Spencer and Grant trenched in the cable for us. You can't even see the trench, they did a nice job.
So they got the pole set and the electrical cable trenched up now they need to get the light and cable attached to the pole. Again, their solution....use the deer stand.
Carl harnessed himself to the pole and climbed his way to the top. It was really windy that day so he was a little wobbly up there and the pole isn't really wide enough for the deer stand to grip really well but he made it up there.
He didn't take any tools up with him while climbing so the guys sent up a box with the light and some other parts.
Carl did a little work up there but still needed the drill. Send it up...
Carl got the light hooked up.
And just as he was about to install the light in it, I wasn't paying attention to where I was walking and stepped on the one and only light bulb. Needless to say he wasn't very happy with me then.
So we are almost done, we still need to get a new light bulb, install the the electrical box to the base of the pole and attach the cable to the pole. Carl gets to make another trip up the light pole in the deer stand this week.
We borrowed Carl's Dad's trailer to haul the pole over to our house and when we were taking the trailer back to him on Saturday we blew a tire on the trailer about 8-10 miles from their house. We stopped and called his Dad to see what he wanted us to do but he said that we would be ok and just keep on going. We took it slow and made it to their house eventually.
It's always an adventure when working on the Rivir Ranch and setting up the light pole was no exception.
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