Twelve Weeks!!!!!

[MountainDon]

Hooray!!!

Twelve weeks of freedom! No need to be here Tues thru Friday for work. The preschool graduation party was this evening; cake, ice cream, balloons!!

Rainy weekend though, so we'll pack the new gun up to the mountains and try it out  there instead of the gun club range. Have to buy a few things tomorrow (thinset, groceries...), pack and leave Sunday morning. So, I won't be hanging out here much for a while.

[peternap]

Have fun Don..Are you staying at the ranch the whole time?

[MountainDon]

We'll be there for a week to 10-12 days at a time, then back for supplies and a weekend dance a couple times a month.

The plans up there include; do the tile floor, do some shooting, install the range and servel fridge with a vent for the fridge, complete exterior siding, blow cellulose into the attic, build a porch and stairs, install the Sun-Mar after the shower goes in, do some shooting, dig a big hole and sink one, maybe two, 550 gallon spherical water tanks (so they won't winter freeze), build the solar battery box, do some shooting, trench and run conduit/wires in the 300 foot run from PV modules to the cabin, get the whole solar power thing running, do some shooting, clean up some more ground clutter and haul it to the burn pit, do some shooting.... and I thought last year was a tall order with building the shell.   

[MountainDon]

No internet and only a few OTA TV stations. (maybe more if I raise the antenna; but that's another job and I have too many already. Unless the priorities get rearranged.


FYI, the switch to digital TV is removing several channels from what we could get with analog. Sure, the analog was a little snowy on some channels, but not real bad and not all the time.

[hnash53]

What do you mean by "spherical water tanks so they won't winter freeze"?

[MountainDon]

BURIED spherical water tanks won't freeze when buried deep enough.   My error is describing the task.    Spherical, only because they can be pumped dry without danger of collapse, unlike any of the 'loaf' style tanks.

Like this...



...but with a manway shaft added to the surface.

[firefox]

I think this is the one Don's talking about. This one can be left empty
but some of the other spherical models can't. Bruce

AST-0525-1W

http://www.denhartogindustries.com/NewSphericalPumpandCisternTanks.asp

Use their search and search for AST-0525-1W, Then click
on the part number at the bottom of the page to get the pdf.

[firefox]

Hi Don, couldn't find a price on these. How much are you paying for them?
Thanks,
Bruce

[MountainDon]

I have a few bookmarked...

http://www.plastic-mart.com/class.php?cat=200

http://www.tank-depot.com/product.aspx?id=130

http://www.watertanks.com/products/0350-010.asp

http://www.norwesco.com/page.cfm?menu=10

I'm planning on going through a local tank supplier and hopefully saving on freight.

[MountainDon]

round numbers,  $620 plus $180 freight on one; freight on two at same time $320 is what my notes state