Near miss

We are smack dab in the middle of our learning curve with these irrigation pivots. How much water to put down in what frequency. How long said frequency will take. We're talking hours, days, and sometimes weeks, to put down the necessary water, with each pivot holding different variables.

We recently attempted a quicker watering of the chili's. We knew it wouldn't take long--our best guess was 2.5 hours. We started the pivot and headed to town for dinner.

You know how sometimes you just know you need to hurry? We all started feeling antsy so we gulped down our food and sped back to the farm.

We're so very glad we did.

As we reached the pivot in question we saw this.

Two pivots headed on a collision course. Nathan jumped out of the truck and manually shifted the pivot to reverse to stave off destruction.

We installed the auto-reverse stops the next day. It was all just a little too much drama for us.