Sunday, June 21, 2020

Addenda


     Miller time continues.




     The garage floor

      Progress on the sewer line project:



      The gas bottle pad is ready.  It awaits a full gas bottle before it can be put to use.  A trip to town should solve the problem.  (Some places hesitate to fill the old bottles because they haven’t been inspected and approved.  A lady in a white car with official state plates shut down one supplier for filling an uninspected bottle.)

     The water trailer woes continue:




       The pipe frame was meant for a 150-gallon tank.  The 300-gallon tank stressed it to the point of failure.  Apparently, as the tank got full, the back uprights spread, the rear of the tank sank, the water surged back, and the trailer went with the flow. 
     Anyway, when I went to get the water, I found the disaster.  It took 4 trips with buckets and jugs to get the tank empty so I could set things right.  It took a while to water the trees that way.
     The tank went back to the shop.  I got things straightened out, but before I got to the windmill, the tank and its frame started to slide off the trailer fame.  It all stayed on the trailer, but it was back to the shop.  This time, I fastened it to the trailer more securely and welded some support pipes to keep things from spreading.
    The “new” tractor worked fine lifting the tank back onto trailer to get things back in place.

         


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