2006 - Volume #30, Issue #5, Page #11
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Walking Plow Drains Pond
When Dave Hayes of Zearing, Iowa, decided to drain a boggy patch of ground near his house, he called on a couple of innovative neighbors, Ray Obrecht and Charlie Fee. Obrecht owns a vintage walking plow and they decided to use it to bury a length of 5-in. dia. plastic drain pipe.
They hooked the plow up to a backhoe bucket on back of a tractor and guided it for 200 ft. to a small stream that the boggy area now drains into.
Fee, who grew up working behind a walking plow in the hills of eastern Kentucky, said Obrecht laid out a much straighter furrow than his old mule used to. After laying pipe in the furrow, they covered it back up by turning the furrow back.
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