When we designed the farm we created a roadway, which we call the Gallops, that runs through the property and connects all the pastures. This is handy for getting around without having to pass through one field to get to another and also for moving alpacas from one field to another.

Today we finally completed the last section by laying degenerated granite (DG) on the last section.

The Gallops are quite wide and we designed it that way so that you can actually turn a tractor around in one movement, which helps make life easier and saves on damage to the fences which tends to occur when there is a lot of reversing to and fro in order to turnaround.

Transporting the DG using the gator and the front bucket on the tractor feels like it is going to take forever, but after acouple of hours it feels like we are slowly but surely making progress.

Evenbtually we have enough DG on te ground and I use the chain harrow rather than the landscape rake to level everything out.

Its not Interstate smooth but its pretty good.

Adrian Stewart