Workshop Septic System Part I and a Late Night Working

When we bought the farm we really had no idea that there was a septic system on the shop side of the property.  This was never mentioned or listed anywhere.  At some point in talking to neighbors, we realized that there was once a trailer on that side of the farm, and it even had a separate address.  This explains the well, and also the random basketball goal nailed to a long dead cedar tree. Further, it explained the heavy gauge wires that we eventually found sticking out of the ground in the overgrown brush.  These wires seem to go to the barns, but must have once been connected to an electrical panel on a meter pole - which was also buried under the brush - that was by the trailer.

Inside the shop (quonset hut) there is a drain pipe that comes out of the foundation wall facing the house.  It stood to reason that there was a plan to attach this pipe to something, so I figured the septic system for the old trailer must be in the field beside the shop.  That or they planned to just have a sink and a grey water line that just emptied into the ground.  Unfortunately, there was nothing that made a septic system readily apparent, and Franklin County has no searchable records for the location prior to 1994, except by the last name of the person who put it in - HA!

But then there was a random metal pipe sticking out of the ground about ten feet directly out from where the 2" drain pipe exited the foundation.  I asked Isaac to dig around that metal pipe and see what was there, and thankfully, he found the sewer pipe to the septic system!  So we have a system to connect the shop to!

Here is the trench from the 2" drain to the septic pipe.

Isaac digging out under the septic pipe so we can cut it.

Cutting the pipe to remove the bad joints.  We'll tie in fresh pipes from here up to the shop.

And it was a late night working by four wheeler headlights since I wanted to get posts in the ground for a gate on the farm side of the property before our next round of rain came.  Nice thing is that the gate and the posts were found on the farm.  For some reason, there are an assortment of telephone poles laying around the property, and three gates.  Some quick cuts with the chainsaw, two bags of concrete mix, and we're ready to go.  Now anybody driving onto the farm will have to come via the main entrance.