Our vanilla vines have flowered for the first time.
While the bore driller was here we asked him to recondition our existing bore which has been in use for ten years. We think it has become silted up a bit with clay particles over this time and we hope that cleaning out may give us a better flow rate.
Pulling the bore pump out of the bore hole 30 metres below the surface took a huge effort. Once it was cleaned, we had all sorts of dramas being able to stuff it back into the hole. Poor Digs - he could get it back in OK but not the last metre of the pipe and in trying to force it, the wires broke so the pump didnt work. Three times the bore pump was pulled up from 30 metres below. A huge physical effort. He developed a system using the car and a pulley after the second attempt. The final solution was to cut the last metre of pipe off so it would fit back into the hole. We were using our back up system for 3 days before we finally switched back to the bore pump.
