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What are you doing today, II

Yesterday morning was $hitty. Literally. I had to change the check valve coming from our sewage pump. Uncoupling the connections allowed residual raw sewage water to weep out all over my tools, hands and gloves. Thankfully the laundry sink is right beside the sump pit. The old valve went into an old container and outside. All the tools gloves and my hands went to the laundry sink full of hot water and pinesol. 🤮

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This morning, I found a business giving away 1000 gallon totes for transporting liquid. I picked up 2 of them to clean out and use in the future for filling the hot tub. Until now, every time I had an issue with the tub, I was stuck draining the water onto the lawn and repairing whatever was wrong then paying $230 for water delivery. Now, if it doesn't need to be changed, I can pump the tub water into a tank to reuse. Or, I can haul the tank to the city to one of the water filling stations and fill the tank for $5. It'll also come in handy in the spring for filling the campers with water.

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Ugh, not fun!

But good score on the water tanks!

NorthernRedneck said:
Yesterday morning was $hitty. Literally. I had to change the check valve coming from our sewage pump. Uncoupling the connections allowed residual raw sewage water to weep out all over my tools, hands and gloves. Thankfully the laundry sink is right beside the sump pit. The old valve went into an old container and outside. All the tools gloves and my hands went to the laundry sink full of hot water and pinesol. 🤮

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NorthernRedneck said:
Yesterday morning was $hitty. Literally. I had to change the check valve coming from our sewage pump. Uncoupling the connections allowed residual raw sewage water to weep out all over my tools, hands and gloves. Thankfully the laundry sink is right beside the sump pit. The old valve went into an old container and outside. All the tools gloves and my hands went to the laundry sink full of hot water and pinesol. 🤮

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This morning, I found a business giving away 1000 gallon totes for transporting liquid. I picked up 2 of them to clean out and use in the future for filling the hot tub. Until now, every time I had an issue with the tub, I was stuck draining the water onto the lawn and repairing whatever was wrong then paying $230 for water delivery. Now, if it doesn't need to be changed, I can pump the tub water into a tank to reuse. Or, I can haul the tank to the city to one of the water filling stations and fill the tank for $5. It'll also come in handy in the spring for filling the campers with water.

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I use them at camp too one thing to get them to last longer keep them covered the sunlight makes them get brittle
I think they are 100 liters and about 300 gallon's loaded weigh about 2500 lbs just at the limit for my single axel trailer.
 
m1west said:
$230.00 for water delivery? Are you not on a well?
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We are on a well but our well has a slow return rate. We're ok normally with a house of 7 people but filling up the hot tub drains it to the point where the pump cuts out and we have to go without water in the house until it replenishes. (Usually around a half hour)
 
tommu56 said:
I use them at camp too one thing to get them to last longer keep them covered the sunlight makes them get brittle
I think they are 100 liters and about 300 gallon's loaded weigh about 2500 lbs just at the limit for my single axel trailer.
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I have a 6.5 x 12 flat deck with a 3500lb axle. I will only be hauling one at a time as one is enough to fill my tub with it being a 6 seater. My buddy's tub is a 7 seater and takes more than one tote so I grabbed 2 of them. Today's task is to pressure wash them. As for storage, I will keep them behind my shop with a tarp on them to keep them from baking.
 
just returned for Hippie Ridge with the truck loaded with stuff I need at home in St Peters.
I am replacing all decks wooden decks with composite. Having removed several deck from the Springfield mobile home park sites. I have a good supply of 8 foot peicesand16 foot pieces.

I will be replacing the wooden deck on the Cecil Creek bridge this week.

Pictures when Crumpy complies with my request.

We spent two days at Hippie Ridge that turned out well. I was able to pipe the main power lines for burial from the power poll to the Bath house where the main load center & distribution panel will reside. However, the roto tiller broke a wheel just eight feet short of the 120 foot ditch.

I'll finish after next weekend. Crumpy has a birthday on Sept 30th so it will wait until after.

No, I won't tell how old 'cause I really don't want to know.
 
NorthernRedneck said:
We are on a well but our well has a slow return rate. We're ok normally with a house of 7 people but filling up the hot tub drains it to the point where the pump cuts out and we have to go without water in the house until it replenishes. (Usually around a half hour)
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Hippie Ridge is on totes water. We have three 60 gallon tanks and one twenty gallon. My son built some elevated stands so they gravity feed into the RV units. Ou neighbor has graciously allowed us to ferry from his well until we get one of our own. It's 400 feet to the aquifer so, it will be a while before we can afford that.

We consume about 30 to 40 gallons per day so it is quite manageable, at least until hard winter sets it. Once I get the bath house done, it will have a 350 gallon tank high in the attic. Sitting on the highest point of our property, it will gravity feed the RV units. Therefore, even during power outages, they will be able to fill their tanks and operate on internal 12 volt power systems.
 
1am Central time.

Departed Purdue Univ at midnight Eastern time. Drove home 90 minutes. Wide awake. I guess I had too much caffeine before leaving for campus?
 
FrancSevin said:
Hippie Ridge is on totes water. We have three 60 gallon tanks and one twenty gallon. My son built some elevated stands so they gravity feed into the RV units. Ou neighbor has graciously allowed us to ferry from his well until we get one of our own. It's 400 feet to the aquifer so, it will be a while before we can afford that.

We consume about 30 to 40 gallons per day so it is quite manageable, at least until hard winter sets it. Once I get the bath house done, it will have a 350 gallon tank high in the attic. Sitting on the highest point of our property, it will gravity feed the RV units. Therefore, even during power outages, they will be able to fill their tanks and operate on internal 12 volt power systems.
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Once I get them cleaned up, I plan on using my flat deck trailer with a tank sitting on a couple pallets so it can gravity feed. And if needed I can easily drain the water into a tank using a submersible sump pump. No more pissing away 230 for water delivery each time.
 
NorthernRedneck said:
We are on a well but our well has a slow return rate. We're ok normally with a house of 7 people but filling up the hot tub drains it to the point where the pump cuts out and we have to go without water in the house until it replenishes. (Usually around a half hour)
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Add in a 2500 gallon water tank with an external pressure pump, I did that in 2018, it saves the main pump as its not cycling on and off overtime you turn the water on and the external pressure pump is cheaper and easier to change out. Plus you never run short of water, thats the reason I did it, in the summer we go through lots of water, lawn, garden, fruit trees and horses. probably north of 600 gallons a day in July and august. Where you are you may want to bury it so it doesn't freeze.
 
NorthernRedneck said:
This morning, I found a business giving away 1000 gallon totes for transporting liquid. I picked up 2 of them to clean out and use in the future for filling the hot tub.
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Not 1000 gallons. Those "totes" (as we call them here) are either 250 or 330 gallons. It's written on the side (as well as capacity in liters).
Do NOT haul more than one at a time on a 3500# trailer!!!
 
NorthernRedneck said:
We are on a well but our well has a slow return rate. We're ok normally with a house of 7 people but filling up the hot tub drains it to the point where the pump cuts out and we have to go without water in the house until it replenishes. (Usually around a half hour)
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I've put a couple of cisterns in ground on timers to for well pump to cistern and a seperate pump in to the house float switch to shut off well pump off if tank is full.
One has a family of 6 plus a couple of horses and small animals his tanks are 2 2500 gallon bruiser tanks under ground.
 
pirate_girl said:
Was talking to one of our nursing students today.
She said look what I have to wear, can you believe this?
Yes, I CAN believe it.
Been there, done that. 😅

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My dad had a colostomy bag for years. He suffered from ulcerative colitis and was controlling it for years with prescription medication until one night when I was in grade 12 and an ulcer burst inside his colon. He was rushed by air ambulance to the city 3 hr drive away and had to have his entire colon removed and lived with a bag the rest of his life.
 
bczoom said:
Not 1000 gallons. Those "totes" (as we call them here) are either 250 or 330 gallons. It's written on the side (as well as capacity in liters).
Do NOT haul more than one at a time on a 3500# trailer!!!
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You're right. I always just heard of them called that up here. They're 300 gallon tanks. I won't do more than one hauling water. My trailer would bend and brake. 😆
 
Departing this afternoon for The Ohio State university. Purdue is fencing there tomorrow so I'll be coaching the team on Saturday. Odds are NOT in our favor, but its a good excuse to get out of the house.
 
I was planning on digging a small pond under the new bridge to serve as a place for the recirculating pond pump to exit water in to the decorative creek and waterfall.
This feature has been planned for two decades. It will divert rainwater from the garage roof into the backyard fishpond.
It is a decorative way to get that water away from the house foundations.
Unfortunately, the current hurricane Helene rain pelting the south east has come to St Louis.
So, I'll be doing laundry and vacuuming.

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I have been working my arse off all week packing up the fifth wheel for a weekend away with just the missus and I. She's been gone all week at a church conference 8 hrs away. I'm heading out to meet up with her as she is on her way back. We'll meet up an hour east and she'll jump in with me. Our oldest son is coming to drive her vehicle back. I'm all hooked up ready to head out in 30 minutes. We're headed roughly 3 hrs northeast to a friend's camp for the weekend. They're going out as well and hauling my quad.
 
FrancSevin said:
It will divert rainwater from the garage roof into the backyard fishpond.
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Are you going to go straight from the downspouts into the pond or are you going to have a tank in between?
I considered doing the same and was going to put in a tank.
With the tank:
The bottom can collect debris coming off the roof
The top of the water can capture any petroleum run-off sheen (from a shingle roof).
A few inches from the bottom of the tank (above the silt), put in a valve with a splitter. The valve and splitter can control flow so strong rain won't inundate the pond with too much water. The splitter can re-route excess water into drainage that doesn't go in the pond. I would also use a hose on that splitter so I can take water out of the tank and do plants that need watering.

EDIT TO ADD: Can you start a new thread for this project? I think it's something many would be interested in but won't find it in this thread.
 
Wow. A lot of good ideas there.

However,

Your suggestions are too complicated for what I need done. It is just a simple drain off the garage roof. And any water that flows off of the 10' X 36' adjoining patio. The gutter will have leaf protectors. I'm not worried about petroleum products. The roof drain pipe pours into a grill in the patio protecting it from debris.
The system is open from one system to the next.

Except for the recirculating pump, all flows are gravity.
The "tank" is the collecting pool under the bridge. About a 75 gallon capacity that then runs via a rocky creek to the fishpond. There will eventually be a recirculating pump from the pond to the colleting pool to supply and operate the water fall when we want it on.

The fishpond currently has an overflow to the storm water system.

Years ago, I raised my yard at the boundaries, so that nothing drains to my neighbors. This includes a surge pond that fills and drains slowly into the public storm water system. Any rainwater that lands on my place goes through this system. The fishpond overflow exits to this system.
 
Sitting in a hotel room in Hilliard, OH, a few miles outside of Columbus. About 10 miles away from Ohio State.

Took way too long to get here. Driving through Indiana was pretty much a clusterf**k from Indianapolis to the Ohio state line. Between construction, accidents and driving rain the average speed on the interstate was probably 35mph.

Heavy rain and slow speeds through most of Ohio, but about 30 miles west of Columbus the rain stopped.
 
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Top picture shows the bridge girders after stripping off the deck. And the new white drainpipe.
Second picture shows the abandoned drain pipe from the original gutter system. It will act as an overflow should the normal flows be interrupted.

These girders are Wolmanized and some 25 years old. Very little rot. That chemical treatment, which worked very well, is now banned. I am replacing one because the very end was damaged.



Since these shots, I have removed six wheel barrow loads of dirt. I created a long oval bowl about 16 feetlong, five feet wide and about two feet deep. The very large rocks seen in the first picture have been removed and will be replaced after I place a black plastic liner and fill the bottom with pea gravel.
That happens today and, hopefully, I get the composite deck applied as well.

Next spring I will complete excavation of the creek branch to the main pond. It is full of black loamy dirt and leaf composts. Right now it is likely where "Appleton," our resident box turtle, will hibernate as she did last winter.

More pictures tomorrow if Crumpy can take them.
 
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