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davidg

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  1. My arms are sore just from looking at that picture....

    I have the tamping bar that has a 3” nailhead instead of the point. We replaced some fence posts a few weeks back including a corner post set using salvaged telephone poles. My arms still hurt.
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  2. So let me tell you a story.  See this guy ^^^^? We actually hired him.  Yes, a Surlyite was hired.
    Now, 2.5 yrs later, he up and quits.  Ok, retires, same thing. So we're back to hiring.  Know anyone?
    (Did I mention the only reason I'm going back to the well is because that guy was a great hire?)

    Haha, Yall hit me up via PM if you have questions.
  3. Anyone follow the Texas Water Safari? I’ve seen a bunch of video clips on social media over the weekend as they started the race early and stopped it short due to the amount of water in lower Guad.

  4. My buddy owned the trolling motor and battery and as such commanded the front of whichever Jon boat we were bass fishing out of. Being some what ambidextrous, I just started casting side-arm with my left hand when slinging baits up under boat houses. This has carried over to adulthood and I still cast left handed about half of the time these days when fishing. I don’t mind fishing out of the back of the boat either as long as you’re not hugging the bank and casting down parallel to the shoreline and blocking my casts.

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  5. Little surprise today as there were a # of nice trucks in our class, but Dodger brought home some more hardware...
     
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    Nice! My first truck was a ‘65 stepside with a 283 and 3 in the tree. Lots of memories in that old truck.
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  6. On 5/4/2025 at 11:10 PM, rage-a-holic said:

    … so I'm betting the hot dogs are Bar S brand, which are made from recycled boxes and cow hoofs. And soy.

     

    Don’t sleep on the Bar S dog, buddy makes a catfish bait using cut up Bar S dogs, strawberry koolaid and minced garlic.    They might not be fit for humans but they will the shit out of some channel cats.

    Buddy caught this op on the Trinity on a hot dog and 2/0 hook 10 days ago when the river was flooding. Hell of a fish.

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  7. Youngest was able to sneak away on Mothers day (not my concern now).  Figured we should be able to find some jacks roaming outside the jetties.  Pelicans were feasting but it was hard for us to zero in on any.  His persistance paid off after hours worth if casting and got him a good one.  Good 30 minute tussle on pretty heavy gear.
     
     
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    Jetty tuna, nice!

  8. Nerf war?

    Pussies.

    bb gun fight. Or throw those hard green pine cones at one another.

    Wrist rocket and green sweetgum balls. Got the bands of mine cut up into little bitty pieces after some complained and ratted me out.
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  9. Water distribution requires big pipes as I noted above.

    City of Austin used about 112k acre-ft of water in 2024 (slightly down from historical numbers) from the LCRA.

    Thats 3.65 x 10^10 gal/yr or 100mm gpd or 65k gpm which requires a 48” pipe to flow with a velocity of 10 ft/s. Big pipes flowing round the clock just to keep up with usage demand, never mind trying to top off a lake.

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  10. There's about a billion reasons why.  Just the pipeline (without accounting for pumping infrastructure) is around $4 million a mile (probably closer to $5 million these days).  Materials, construction, land acquisition, regulatory costs, etc.  It's around 225 miles between Lavon and Travis.  So, there you go, around $1 billion just for the pipe.  Then add a couple hundred million for pumping infrastructure, then add pumping costs when it's transferring water, which it can only do every so often (as you noted....they haven't had so much water that they've needed to open gates for 13 years).  So in between, that pipeline is just sitting there, gathering dust.
    Transporting large volumes of water long distances (anything over 20 miles or so) is a ginormous, very, very expensive proposition.  And people scream if their water rate goes up 5%.  So....nope, not gonna happen.
    Eventually, Texas is going to have to undertake some REALLY expensive options....because we avoided those options when they were more affordable.

    I bet you’re low by $2-3B to get a project like that done. Look at the Integrated Pipeline Project by Tarrant Regional Water Authority pipelining water from Lake Palestine and tying into pipelines from Cedar Creek and Richland Chamber to Benbrook. Some of it was a new 108” section and they spent $2.5B for a shorter distance and easier digging terrain.


    https://www.trwd.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/IPLQuarterlyExecutiveSummary-202409_FINAL_web-compressed.pdf
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  11. Most likely your sale will transact after COB on Monday based on Monday’s close prices and show up in your account in the new fund on Tuesday.

    I moved two 401k’s from S&P 500 and Large cap funds to cash/treasuries last week on Tuesday and Wed. On my account screens I changed my allocations for existing funds to 0% and set the cash fund to 100%. They both processed the respective nights and showed up the next business day.

    We had been needing to do some asset reallocation and getting those done before Thursday ended up saving us a significant amount.

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