Iowa 2015 Fall GTG (October 17, 2015)

[Wood Doctor]

Well, there was a guy a met two years ago at the Iowas GTG named Steve. I liked him. He liked the 084 I brought along with a 36" bar and 404 chain. I did like the way Nathan tuned up my 290 as best as he could, dog that it still is. I'd like to see an 046 or a 460 blow away my Makita 6401 Big Bore. I can't find one around here that can do it.

 

[nstueve]

Mark, I fixed a PM 610 last week. That saw now runs like a bandit. Owner had trouble starting it because the trigger lock would not hold a fast idle. I repaired it with shop-made parts. Piece of cake for me. I broke my all-time record and fixed five Mac saws this year that were all dead. Now they are all alive.

Miss you guys. I may have to cancel my vacation trip that week in October and head for nathan's place instead, especially if Ronaldo and Tall Guy can also get there again.

Fixed that for you... I shouldn't have used my first initial (N) and last name (Stueve) as a screen name... [emoji47]


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[WKEND LUMBERJAK]

good morning Nathan.

 

[67L36Driver]

Morning Kenneth & Nate!

 

[jetmd]

This should be a good time. Not to far and I get to visit the home land.

Fill the tank with TacoBell, and save the dinosaur bones!

 

[nstueve]

Well... The assembly of the driveway begins Friday AM!!! Got a Case backhoe coming and lots of guys from AS to help! Yea, AS!!!!!

 

[hoskvarna]

. Ronaldo, homelite410, stihlx8 and myself helped Nathan out.


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[hoskvarna]

More pics.

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[hoskvarna]

More.

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[hoskvarna]

More.

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[hoskvarna]

Started filling with rip rap and liquid mortar.

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[skippysphins]

What a great community we have here on as forum!

 

[hoskvarna]

We got the tank ready to go into hole Friday between rain showers.
Put it into hole rite away sat morn,mortar was to show up at 9:30,it did,we were ready!
Stihlx8 was in the trackhoe,I was in the bobcat,Ron and Mike did most of the weldin.
Nathan was runnin around gettin stuff doin whatever he could to help us out,and supervisin.
All went well and nobody got hurt!!!

 

[67L36Driver]

You guys rock![emoji41]

 

[67L36Driver]

Meh. You guys are way more efficient than the St. Joseph street crew. They have been tinkering on a creek crossing on south 28th street for three weeks now. Main avenue going south out of my neighborhood.

 

[Ronaldo]

Few more. Last picture is the culvert we replaced....it was 60'' diameter and this new one is 10'. Will allow a lot more flow and hopefully solve his issues.

 

[stihlx8]

You guys got lots better pics than I did. Thanks for posting them. Great job all.

 

[nstueve]

I really cant stress how awesome Mark, Ron, Mike, and Nate are!!!! There is no way I would have gotten this to flow so smoothly and get everything done in one weekend without them! All four guys were super hard working all weekend from dusk till dawn. Erica and I can't express the relief we feel seeing that thing in the hole and so close to completion! I don't think this thing is going anywhere for 50 years and I don't want to be the poor sap that will have to replace it as hefty as we made this thing.

Just so everyone knows what they are looking at that is a old 1/4" thick underground fuel barrel with 1/4" thick wings on the sides and 2"x2" 1/4 thick angle iron for support. Back filled the sides with "pit-run" (which is big limestone boulders of various sizes), and 2 cement trucks (16yds) of mortar mix (watered down cement without gravel in it). Mortar mix fills in all the cracks and crevices to make a water tight seal from the tube to the ditch, helps provide weight to keep it in place and support for the tube to keep it round.

Just gotta throw some dirt on top and pack it down and we'll be ready to go!

 

[nstueve]

We also gained a 9-9.5' diameter steel table for the GTG to assemble saws on!

(mike I think we should weld our names to the table at the GTG... )

 

[sam-tip]

Why do theses pictures remind me of the TV reality show Gold Rush? Excavators, mud, welding, water pumps and fixing big steel objects.