Got a call form an old client that wants to site two new pivots; wanted to go out yesterday and place them, so we head out and he and a ranch manager had two side by sides to get us around: Well we quickly stuck one:
then got the second one buried, then got a chained up flat bed 4 wheel drive stuck, finally lots of shoveling, pushing and pulling got all three unstuck and finished figuring out the first one, to go right here:
They had me the post to pound in and I realize it's one of the old posts I used to stake the ranch boundary starting on this place about 1994, twenty years later and the orange paint is still on it.
The difficult part was figuring out where to place the bridges since two wheel lines are crossing a creek in 4 spots, you need to hit it kinda at 90 degrees and the creek is very twisty in that area; the difficult crossing:
Then off to the second pivot a valley to the northwest. That one was simple, just miss two existing pivots, a gated pipeline and a gravel pit, kinda places itself, but for some reason that valley got two big SW wind events and melted most of the snow so nothing but mud, the road out from my control point:
It is like driving down a stream, good thing it has a nice gravel base on frozen ground, in a couple of days it might be bottomless mud.
Same day different event. I usually do a good check on where to cross small drainages. This one looked good....opps..dropped the front bumper on the other side and started shoveling and found the bottom about a foot below the tire. Cost me 1.5 liter of good Scotch to call my buddy surveyor to pull me out with his diesel rig. 😛
Pablo B-) 
hehe, Pablo, that looks like nothing to me in the photo. Those little spots can getcha sometimes.:-P
That's why I have a 6k# winch in the tool box and a 6' "T" post in the bed. It's saved me more than once and I leave the "T" post behind when I'm done after I drive it the rest of the way in (about 12"). 🙂
Nice photos and story. I had to Google "Pivot". Is this is what you are talking about? Seems like rough terrain for it?
We currently have several feet of frost in the ground, driving a t-post would be more difficult than buying a bottle of scotch 🙂
Yes, exactly, they need to size this new one which is just west of one I sited some years ago and looks like this
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I placed it where you could get maximum coverage for the field, but it had to cross the creek to do it, don't know if it shows on the photo but it does in two spots and brushes up to it in two others, you should be able to see the bridges.
The new one sits to the west of this one and the field is long and narrow, not the best for a pivot but if they cross the stream with two wheel sets they can get most of the field covered and remove the side rolls and that field looks like this:
These guys don't seem to mind the area being rough, they will put a wheel line in a lot of spots other people won't consider, but this area is flat except for the creek and there will be some dirt work to make everything operate
Just got the four wheeler stuck twice, once each the last two days. Then got a Bobcat stuck trying to pull it out. I'd still be there pounding the post in (might be down a foot and a half by now). I haven't seen the frost this hard or deep in a long time. Guess I'll go back in a month or two to set the rebar for the job. I'd most likely wind up drinking the scotch and looking at the post.
We have winches on the our UTV's too. But we give them either a danforth or plow boat anchor. They bury the anchor like a "dead man pull".
But that frozen ground would make that a really, really hard chore. Luckily we don't have that issue her in Louisiana.
We have this little thing called bedrock. I own a place where I built a new quarter mile of fence and the greatest depth to bedrock was 14 inches. Some places we started the drill hole on bedrock. Try driving your T-post in that pasture!
Was involved with a project for a pivot about 35 years ago where little dikes had to be built on the curve smack through the irrigation pond providing the water for the center pivot system. Installed culverts at the low points to insure water still flowed downhill to the bottom of the pond. Looked silly sprinkling part of the pond but that was the ideal place for the pivot to run.
Exorcise at work
Hire a Catholic Priest for a rod man then you can exorcise at work, OH HAR HAR HAR 😉