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CleverNickname

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  1. The Border Conferece rises again!
  2. There is something about postholes that are utter agony for my back. For whatever reason this hole has been downright invigorating, far more fun than some of the postholes I've dug.
  3. Knocked down the sides. I think I got the one side a little deeper but didn't measure. New wheelbarrow. Fancy two wheel model.
  4. I'm up embiggening the size if the hole. Originally it's like 39x57 (so 30" + 2x 3.5" + 2x 1"; and 48" + 2x 3.5" + 2x 1"). Butninfigure I needed about another inch or so around. My idea is to pour some concrete down the edges once I get a set or two in. I figure it would help keep rain water from rushing in. Moved the pavers back a little.
  5. I built a ladder. Should last me a while. Not sure when I'll get down to past 8 or 9 ft. It's 28" wide so it can fit in the 30" narrow side of my eventual 4x2.5 clear set/lagging (so it doesn't collapse and kill me). I'll probably build the first set when I'm about 5 ft down and it's all widened out like I need it. Not eager to see the bill for that lumber and all thread concoction.
  6. What's the deal with his age? Just a genius?
  7. I tried leaving at 630am, but it was still hot as hell. Deepest point is 50 inches. I blew out the step I had left and getting out is now a hassle. Next time up I need to clean up the sides. I have been lazy and need to shave a couple inches off the long sides. Ten year old for scale.
  8. And fwiw, the Frio is still flowing through Garner, it just gets sucked dry by the time it gets to the Concan gauge. But it's less than it was in 2021 which was less than it was in 2020.
  9. We did Quince and Chalk Bluff this week. The improvements at Quince are amazing. Yes they charge now, but if it means less trash and future bathrooms, I'm all in. Water a lite low (obviously) but still flowing. Chalk Bluff is $15 per person but has a rope swing and all the modest volume conjunto you could ask for.
  10. Hypothetically, if I crapped my pants... crash landing on the lake might hide the evidence.
  11. I've heard that all my life. Just seems like that would be a reasonable thing to spend money on.
  12. Dead mouse in my 1550 gal rainwater capture tank at the ranch. I added a lot of unscented bleach but I don't know if I'll ever want to drink it.
  13. Yeah. I'll shore at 48" or so.
  14. High today was 105, so we picked up blizzards by noon. Noticeably cooler in the hole. But still pretty miserable. Half is down to about 40". I won't be able to go up for a week or two, but I think I'm going to build a ladder. We put 2x8x16 blocks around the edge. Also got a nice sheet of treated plywood. Hopefully better next time I get a deluge. From the road:
  15. Guess who had a delta 8 gummy and ordered two kitty cat baseball cards? This guy!
  16. Lots of rain. May have to come up with a solution.
  17. Up near Mullin where I got my hole a neighbor's gauge had 5.5 inches. The creek did rise. Go a mile north or south and it was 1 to 3 inches.
  18. State worker perspective: Management is older. And maybe there is a Fox-news anti-millenial/GenZ angle too. But there is clearly a cadre who wants to see state workers come to the bright shiny new north capitol complex. The Leg spent millions, gotta see some buttons in seats. (Fwiw Perry was going to move agencies out into cheap endless low slung office complexes out on 130, but Abbot changed that to expensive high rises downtown). Fact is most state jobs pay sucks. Lots of 40-50k type wages. A lot of folks only make it because they bought a house in the 1990s. Virtually every new hire lives betlyibd Hutto or Smithville or Luling. Upper management is barely in the 100s, which isn't enough to live in the city. Add to that people carrying student debt, Austin's insane housing prices, and the cessation of the state pension as a carrot. The only way state govt will continue to function is to let folks work from home 90% of the time. They should also consider relocating functions that require being in the office to lower cost cities throughout the state. To the broader discussion: it doesn't matter one CEOs preference. What matters is what it takes to get and retain good folks. Stubborn codgers are just going to get rolled by market forces far beyond their control. They might not like it, but they will have to adapt anyway.
  19. Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! (But if I find Padre Lopez's 15 burro loads of gold and silver, I'm keeping it.)
  20. Another $50 gas to work half ass for 2 hours or so. At about 20" there is a fragmented shelf of limestone. Not so bad past that. Some fist size rocks, but all in all relatively doable. Here's the work site. Deepest point is now 36". I have left a step in one corner. Need to blow out the rest down to deeper point, and the step. All buttoned up for the day: Pondering a steel set system. It would be skinnier (lagging on the inside), more permanent, and when I get down as far as I want to, easier to pour concrete along the sides.
  21. He's a smart feller, not a fart smeller
  22. Here is my plan: OSHA regulations stipulate that a pit of more than 5 ft needs support. So once i get that deep, I will start shoring. This is my hole digging hero How to timber: https://youtu.be/HooY2cFAvVU Cutting timbers: https://youtu.be/rWRS4TqebRE Digging the shaft: https://youtu.be/zAcElBWErT0 Putting in set: https://youtu.be/VdEPVP5EdgU
  23. My neighbor's well about a quarter mile away is pretty shallow. Maybe 40 ft? So there is a maximum depth I'll reach. Realistically 20-23 ft would be deep enough to have a standing room side tunnel at the bottom. It'll probably kill me before then, though.
  24. I got a new 27" transfer shovel coming in this week! Heat treated head, powder coated, D handle. A sexy shovel to add to my shovel arsenal. My current bag is 3 larger fiberglass shovels (one point, one transfer/flat, one post hole), and one smaller pointed shovel. So clearly this was a big need. It will be helpful when I get down on my knees and fill an old kitty litter bucket. The bigger shovels getting a little unwieldy. Spouse says no more throwing money into the hole for a bit. 😕 Hole got some good rain this week. Not sure how wet the hole will be this weekend. May need to start covering it up. But I think Thurs and Friday will be plenty dry - perfect conditions. Aside from the 97 degree high.
  25. Seems like the blowing away cops sort of defeats the "arm more people" idea. My advice to whoever sold ARs or whatever to a edgelord 18 year old is to pack up and move away pronto. Or eat a bullet.
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