Not So Pro 3

[3browns]

We have the same signs here - my wife’s grandmother has it placed at the end of her gravel driveway.

Here you better believe they are serious too

 

[3browns]

Sounds like it would be a great idea to invest in a stationary, whole house unit powered by propane then.

If I can sell the boss

The fence was supposed to be the last big ticket item on the to do list

 

[Loony661]

Here you better believe they are serious too

I take anything like that, serious. I respect people’s land and space.

 

[John Wargo]

So 5 questions were about chalk line colors?

Yep and the # 5/8"

 

[Mastermind]

If I can’t get it filled then burying it is pointless

I'd move.

 

[3browns]

I take anything like that, serious. I respect people’s land and space.

We have a LOT of "constitutionalists" up here and no disrespect to anyone is intended but these folks make most preppers look like Sunday school kids

There was a long list of them that would cause a heavy response from the troopers when they showed up at the courthouse

I have stories including meetings with federal law enforcement agencies regarding those folks

 

[Mastermind]

I ain't feeling no better yet. What good is a doctor if he can't cure a mfer?

 

[3browns]

I'd move.

Make up your damned mind, I already took down the "For Sale" sign

 

[Mastermind]

Make up your damned mind, I already took down the "For Sale" sign

My mind is like a steel trap. Sharp?

Naw....rusty.

 

[3browns]

My mind is like a steel trap. Sharp?

Naw....rusty.

Just remember what they always taught us...

"A mind is a terrible thing. Too wasted"

 

[3browns]

How cold does it get by you? At -44 and below, propane no longer works, as it’s too cold to turn from liquid to gas. It’s happened here before, in south eastern Minnesota, where people lost heat and had to place tarps over the tanks and place heaters underneath to warm the tanks up enough… I guess what I’m saying is, if it gets that cold, or colder, an above ground tank won’t help you either..

So revisiting this, I was talking to the excavator that has done all the dirt work for our builder for the last 30+ years

They were digging for the foundation on a new build on the lot next to us

Anyway, I was talking to him about the geologic makeup of the property here and this and that and I asked him what was wrapped around the tubing that goes down to the main shut off valve for our water line

He told me it was a stainless braided line encased in plastic and it was a tracer to find buried lines because the water line is plastic

He also told me our line was buried 11 feet down to be safe from freezing

He said at that depth I wouldn't have to worry until it got less than 30 below for an extended period of time

We will get 30 below but rarely for more than a few days

 

[Mastermind]

Just remember what they always taught us...

"A mind is a terrible thing. Too wasted"

It's like they know me so well.

 

[Mastermind]

So revisiting this, I was talking to the excavator that has done all the dirt work for our builder for the last 30+ years

They were digging for the foundation on a new build on the lot next to us

Anyway, I was talking to him about the geologic makeup of the property here and this and that and I asked him what was wrapped around the tubing that goes down to the main shut off valve for our water line

He told me it was a stainless braided line encased in plastic and it was a tracer to find buried lines because the water line is plastic

He also told me our line was buried 11 feet down to be safe from freezing

He said at that depth I wouldn't have to worry until it got less than 30 below for an extended period of time

We will get 30 below but rarely for more than a few days

To dig down 11 feet here, you'd be blasting solid rock for 9 of that.

 

[3browns]

To dig down 11 feet here, you'd be blasting solid rock for 9 of that.

This area is all an enormous glacial moraine that overlays the bedrock and it can be dozens or hundreds of feet thick

It is all rounded rocks from marble size to basketball size in a dirt matrix that has solidified over the millennia

Every now and then you find an "erratic", a boulder of a completely different type of rock that went along for the ride in a glacier and finally melted out and dropped miles and miles from where it started

Years ago an enormous erratic melted out and dropped out of a giant glacial iceberg in one of the channels around Juneau and all of a sudden boats were hitting a rock that had never been there before

 

[Loony661]

To dig down 11 feet here, you'd be blasting solid rock for 9 of that.

I’d move.

 

[JoeDirt]

A Dodge was here...

 

[Mastermind]

I’d move.

Fugh that. I love solid rock.

 

[full chizel]

We have the same signs here - my wife’s grandmother has it placed at the end of her gravel driveway.

No warning here……they’ll get surprised.

 

[3browns]

No warning here……they’ll get surprised.

The sign at the end of my driveway just has a picture of a clown throwing a pie, cause guns are scary ya know

 

[full chizel]

The sign at the end of my driveway just has a picture of a clown throwing a pie, cause guns are scary ya know

That’ll get @Mastermind to Alaska especially turtle pie.