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11 years 8 months ago #22058 by et1911rph
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Prayers here as well. Also, a tip of the hat to the medical staff that tends to the little ones.

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11 years 8 months ago #22061 by Sharkey
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mlotziii wrote: Been at the ER with my 21 month old for the past 6 hours. She has a really hard time breathing when she gets sick.

Four breathing treatments an x-ray and some steroids and I'm hoping we can go home soon.


Hope you are all home and doing ok M. God Bless

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11 years 8 months ago #22063 by faawrenchbndr
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Prayers sent for the little one........

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11 years 8 months ago #22170 by Akai
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Please let us know if all the prayers have helped boss! seems minor but I've had router troubles for the last couple of days and haven't been around much, but glad to be back been driving the wife nuts instead of ya'll :rolleyes:

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11 years 8 months ago #22295 by OleCowboy
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See it to believe it:

So I am on my John Deere working to level out the ground for the concrete pour when I see water on the ground. my first thought is DANG, busted rad hose or maybe it just came off. Closer look show water spurting out of the ground and a 2 " PVC pipe I have broke open.

WTH????? So I check my pump, got a full 60 psi and its not running, cistern sight gage is full and well pump is not running!!!!!!

Long story short, but my neighbor does not have water and neither does another neighbor. PVC pipe comes off another cistern on the other side of the hill, runs to my neighbor over to my place and down the hill somewhere to another place...WHY?

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11 years 8 months ago #22297 by jtallen83
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Because Texas let you do what you want!
I did a curb ramp and sidewalk job in Sheffield Texas once. They had poured the sidewalk on top of the main water line, no possible way my guys could have not broken it. Problem was when I asked where the shutoff was they told me the guy that knew died several years ago and they haven't found everything yet. :huh: They had zero documentation on the water system and certainly no codes to follow!
It was found in about 3 hours once all the old timers started walking around with shovels.... good times and great people!
A minor inconvenience for all that FREEDOM!

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11 years 8 months ago #22299 by OleCowboy
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jtallen83 wrote: Because Texas let you do what you want!
I did a curb ramp and sidewalk job in Sheffield Texas once. They had poured the sidewalk on top of the main water line, no possible way my guys could have not broken it. Problem was when I asked where the shutoff was they told me the guy that knew died several years ago and they haven't found everything yet. :huh: They had zero documentation on the water system and certainly no codes to follow!
It was found in about 3 hours once all the old timers started walking around with shovels.... good times and great people!
A minor inconvenience for all that FREEDOM!

LOL it was comical in many ways, as I could see the PVC came in thru my fence line and then headed down the hill. Well I called both of them and they drove over and we all got a chuckle out of this as in WTH??? why would anyone do this. My guess is The way back owner who built my place in 1945, this was his ranch. Later he built another home and his daughter and her family moved in here, then he sold off some acreage and built a house on it and sold it. He was pulling water off the cistern he built on top the hill. My house (the original already had a 3500 gal cistern and my guess is he did not think one well and cistern could support 3 families, so he drilled another well, put in a cistern way up the backside of the hill for max elevation to give more water pressure.

Based upon data this all took place well over 30 years ago. My neighbor down the hill is now staring a $30,000 well drill in the face he just told me...

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11 years 8 months ago #22302 by jtallen83
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Too bad we irrigate so much north of you, maybe you wouldn't have to drill so deep. I've seen pictures of water going 10 foot in the air out of a spring in the ogallala aquifer, back in the 1920's.
The Pecos looked like a slime run the summer I was there. I heard a lot of " Those :censored: farmers in Nebraska should leave some water for us!"

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11 years 8 months ago #22307 by OleCowboy
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jtallen83 wrote: Too bad we irrigate so much north of you, maybe you wouldn't have to drill so deep. I've seen pictures of water going 10 foot in the air out of a spring in the ogallala aquifer, back in the 1920's.
The Pecos looked like a slime run the summer I was there. I heard a lot of " Those :censored: farmers in Nebraska should leave some water for us!"

I pull water at 628' and the well is 728'. Water is good water but hard as nails

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11 years 8 months ago #22310 by VTIT
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That sounds almost as bad as my place. It was built in 1945 too.

I live on the top of a big sand hill and couldn't figure out why my basement was ALWAYS damp. Coming up through the floor every now and then. I lived here about 10 years and the town decided to redo the water main running up my street. They did it in sections. One day they shut the water off to my house and all of a sudden my neighbor didn't have any water either. HMMMM a little investigation and some talking with an old timer that used to work for the water department and they found out that there was a 3/4 inch copper line running UNDER my house. At some time it must have sprung a leak and that is why my basement was wet. They fixed it and my basement has been dry ever since. I did have to have a section of it cut out and checked to make sure it hadn't undercut my floor or footings but the drainage is so good here there wasn't any damage.

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