The pipe was built on the floor of the structure. The "X" marks the center of the tank and the 6" fill port

A 5" hole saw is about right for a 4" sched 40 or 80 4" pipe

Due to the wall thickness, I had to come in from both sides, using a pilot hole (Get it: Pilot hole!!!)

Hold on, not so quick there beaver!

I found em'

So let's start with a pic of the floor

Cool hugh?

Actually, the tape represents the area of the floor that the actual water tanks will soon occupy

When I was an Armee Av-E-8-er, one of my friends, John bought a house there, in Alabama...Ft. Rucker, the home of Armee aviation. We affectionately refer to the place as "Mother Rucker."

Alabama has low spots and even lower spots. Nothing is high, just level and slightly depressed. The slight depressions are referred to as valleys! You're flying along on this flat plate of glass and the instructor pilot says follow the valley off to the west. One quickly learns that a "Valley" is just a slightly greener path of trees. THey all grow up to the same height, but I guess the trunks need to be longer in the "Valley" to achieve the same height.

John lived in such a valley. Unknown to him, "Up Stream" of him some miles was "Lake Tullaco." An artificial thing the Army had built some years before. Used for recreation, and aircraft water borne operations, the lake was a fav spot for all of us youngin A-V-8-ers huntin' the fairer side of humanity. (I guess in this twisted up day and age, I need to specify, "Females")

Well one summer we were having a bit too much rain. The lake completely filled and the spillway was at capacity. Well some local brain trust, a guberment employee, thought he should do something to relieve the pressure on the dam and spillway. SO he pulled out a trencher and went to work. The rest is history.

The dam failed of course as the "Trench" widened to like the size of the dam and john's house was suddenly resting on the bottom of a river which was 12 feet deep at the point where he lived. Insurance did not pay. Except to pay for some dents in the ceiling. Yea, dents in the ceiling...Caused by the appliances which were floating in the kitchen and living room.

I'm not making this up, it's true. Several hundred homes suffered a similar fate. John had to take a loan out to rebuild his home, which he did. All that lasted about five years or so...Until the dam failed a second time...Destroying his home in ernest this time.

Copy that, Goverment in charge of anything is not the greatest idea!

For your study and familiarity. The Maryland Heights Police Dept has put together a layman's guide to recognizing hazardous explosives type material. Darned shame that we might need to know this stuff, but with the potential of un vetted immigrants that the Obama traitor let in, we may need to get smart on this.

Chief- I'm not too familiar with cases but will be soon because I'll be getting one for my 6+.  Plan on having something beefy that can be transferred between the mountain bike and the moto.  Will make sure to let you know what I find.

In the meantime, check out Avenza, download some USGS topos (all free) and see if you like it. You could make some trail maps of your property then digitize and geo-reference those maps and upload them to your library. Kind of cool.

I like it

I will...

Quote from: stlaser on February 12, 2017, 03:09:22 PM

Bigger truck means you need a bigger trailer, 2 axle preferably for hauling future equipment etc.....

I'll be getting a 14 or 16' 2 axle soon.

Suggestion on the trailer: Go up to an 18 footer with six lug wheels (7,000 lb axles??) so you can put on a decent load.

Luke!!!!!!!!!

Hey, how about writing up which case your dad should mount on his Tiger and DR-650 to mount his horrible I-Phony.

Nice looking saw, wish I had room for something other than my little fold up dewalt contractor saw.

Two words:

Kin-Tucky

Headin out to the property today to make a detailed topo map so I can properly plan my new driveway in and placement of the house when we get to that point. I'm going to try a new spoon my phone that takes gps readings every few feet and makes contour lines in a map. Should be interesting, I'll let you know how it goes.

Might have to get Sarge up there to wreck some stuff!

I use the graphite spray film on the channels and the rail of the rip fence, and on the screw/machine devices under the table. Very little sawdust sticks to them. I use dry film stuff, clear, not sure what it is called, on the table. Then I give everything a dusting of WD-40 to prevent rust and keep the glue from sticking.
In my shops, saw tables are, well, tables...

folks, keep In mind that UA clothing is very flammable and will actually melt to your skin if you get too close to extreme heat!

Exactly Nate

Not authorized for aviation because we have to stay strapped into the seats while the aircraft burns around us

Cotton only.

But for everything else the stuff is great, I love my stuff

I also waxed the table and the fence rails with Johnson's paste wax and the fence slides realllly nicely now.


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That dry film lube stuff works quite well.

I used the J Deere stuff on my table saw down at the farm

Hey Don, let me know if you need a punching dummy for your team, I haven't been beaten on too much since I stopped doing taekwondo a few years ago.  My kids still try but I manage to win, but its a challenge when they all team up and its me against 8 or 9.  Worst part is trying not to squish the little ones.   

My kids don't have to worry too much about bullies, as we homeschool, but sometimes they aren't the nicest to each other and try to bully one another.  We allow them to defend themselves between one another.  If we have to step in, there is a good chance both are going to get negative consequences from the interaction, so thy are pretty good about resolving it.

Heritage Fellowship in Florence...Check us out

An Interesting piece of forgotten U.S. History

When Thomas Jefferson saw there was no negotiating with Muslims, he formed what is the now the Marines (sea going soldiers). These Marines were attached to U. S. Merchant vessels. When the Muslims attacked U.S. merchant vessels, they were repulsed by armed soldiers, but there is more.

The Marines followed the Muslims back to their villages and killed every man, woman, and child in the village. It didn't take long for the Muslims to leave U.S. Merchant vessels alone. English and French merchant vessels started running up our flag when entering the Mediterranean to secure safe travel.

Why the Marine Hymn Contains the Verse "… to the shores of Tripoli." This is very interesting and a must read piece of our history. It points out where we may be heading. Most Americans are unaware of the fact that over two hundred years ago, the United States had declared war on Islam and Thomas Jefferson led the charge!

At the height of the 18th century, Muslim pirates (the "Barbary Pirates") were the terror of the Mediterranean and a large area of the North Atlantic. They attacked every ship in sight and held the crews for exorbitant ransoms. Those taken hostage were subjected to barbaric treatment and wrote heart-breaking letters home, begging their government and family members to pay whatever their Mohammedan captors demanded.

These extortionists of the high seas represented the North African Islamic nations of Tripoli, Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers –collectively referred to as the Barbary Coast - and presented a dangerous and unprovoked threat to the new American Republic.

Before the Revolutionary War, U.S. merchant ships had been under the protection of Great Britain. When the U.S. declared its independence and entered into war, the ships of the United States were protected by France. However, once the war was won, America had to protect its own fleets.

Thus, the birth of the U.S. Navy. Beginning in 1784, 17 years before he would become president, Thomas Jefferson became America's Minister to France. That same year, the U.S. Congress sought to appease its Muslim adversaries by following in the footsteps of European nations who paid bribes to the Barbary States rather than engaging them in war.
In July of 1785, Algerian pirates captured American ships, and the Dye of Algiers demanded an unheard-of ransom of $60,000. It was a plain and simple case of extortion, and Thomas Jefferson was vehemently opposed to any further payments. Instead, he proposed to Congress the formation of a coalition of allied nations who together could force the Islamic states into peace. A disinterested Congress decided to pay the ransom.

In 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams met with Tripoli's ambassador to Great Britain to ask by what right his nation attacked American ships and enslaved American citizens, and why Muslims held so much hostility towards America, a nation with which they had no previous contacts.

The two future presidents reported that Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja had answered that Islam "was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Quran that all nations who would not acknowledge their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussel man (Muslim) who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise."

Despite this stunning admission of premeditated violence on non-Muslim nations, as well as the objections of many notable American leaders, including George Washington, who warned that caving in was both wrong and would only further embolden the enemy, for the following fifteen years the American government paid the Muslims millions of dollars for the safe passage of American ships or the return of American hostages. The payments in ransom and tribute amounted to over 20 percent of the United States government annual revenues in 1800.

Jefferson was disgusted. Shortly after his being sworn in as the third President of the United States in 1801, the Pasha of Tripoli sent him a note demanding the immediate payment of $225,000 plus $25,000 a year for every year forthcoming. That changed everything.

Jefferson let the Pasha know, in no uncertain terms, what he could do with his demand. The Pasha responded by cutting down the flagpole at the American consulate and declared war on the United States. Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers immediately followed suit. Jefferson, until now, had been against America raising a naval force for anything beyond coastal defense, but, having watched his nation be cowed by Islamic thuggery for long enough, decided that it was finally time to meet force with force.

He dispatched a squadron of frigates to the Mediterranean and taught the Muslim nations of the Barbary Coast a lesson he hoped they would never forget. Congress authorized Jefferson to empower U.S. ships to seize all vessels and goods of the Pasha of Tripoli and to "cause to be done all other acts of precaution or hostility as the state of war would justify".
When Algiers and Tunis, who were both accustomed to American cowardice and acquiescence, saw the newly independent United States had both the will and the right to strike back, they quickly abandoned their allegiance to Tripoli. The war with Tripoli lasted for four more years and raged up again in 1815. The bravery of the U.S. Marine Corps in these wars led to the line"...to the shores of Tripoli" in the Marine Hymn, and they would forever be known as "leathernecks" for the leather collars of their uniforms, designed to prevent their heads from being cut off by the Muslim scimitars when boarding enemy ships.

Islam, and what its Barbary followers justified doing in the name of their prophet and their god, disturbed Jefferson quite deeply. America had a tradition of religious tolerance. In fact Jefferson, himself, had co-authored the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, but fundamentalist Islam was like no other religion the world had ever seen. A religion based on supremacy, whose holy book not only condoned but mandated violence against unbelievers, was unacceptable to him. His greatest fear was that someday this brand of Islam would return and pose an even greater threat to the United States.

This should concern every American. That Muslims have brought about women-only classes and swimming times at taxpayer-funded universities and public pools; that Christians, Jews, and Hindus have been banned from serving on juries where Muslim defendants are being judged; Piggy banks and Porky Pig tissue dispensers have been banned from workplaces because they offend Islamist sensibilities; ice cream has been discontinued at certain Burger King locations because the picture on the wrapper looks similar to the Arabic script for Allah; public schools are pulling pork from their menus. But in turn several American companies have placed the Muslim symbol on their products in the name of Allah; on and on and on and on.

It's death by a thousand cuts, or inch-by-inch as some refer to it, and most Americans have no idea that this battle is being waged every day across America. By not fighting back, by allowing groups to obfuscate what is really happening, and not insisting that the Islamists adapt to our own culture, the United States is cutting its own throat with a politically correct knife, and helping to further the Islamists agenda. Sadly, it appears that today America's leaders would rather be politically correct than victorious!

101 pages!
Man.............

Y'all are making me want one. I don't have a clue if this is a good price or not but I like the looks of it.
http://atcm.co/S2PVDP/1AAF73D9


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That is the exact vehicle I am considering!
Have been talking with the dealership for a couple weeks.
He is pretty much in love with it. $25,900 is pretty much it, well so far.
He added 50 more pics to the web site after I kept asking about the undercarriage.
The lift is a cheapo Rancho and the shocks look all worn out and buggered up. Tires are about 50%. Mileage is 129K I think, and it has some serious cosmetic scratches.
Good point is that it was built in Texas and sold in texas, Lived its whole life there until 2017!
I want it so bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. Tip from Tae Kwon Do :

 

The elbow is the strongest point on your body.

If you are close enough to use it, do!

 

 

 

2. Learned this from a tourist guide.

 

If a robber asks for your wallet and/or purse, DO NOT HAND IT TO HIM.

Toss it away from you.... Chances are that he is more interested

in your wallet and/or purse than you, and he will go for the wallet/purse..

RUN LIKE MAD IN THE OTHER DIRECTION!

 

 

 

3. If you are ever thrown into the trunk of a car,

 

kick out the back tail lights and stick your arm out the hole and start waving like crazy..

The driver won't see you, but everybody else will.

 This has saved lives.

 

 

 

4. Don't sit in your car!

 

Women have a tendency to get into their cars after shopping, eating, working, etc.,

and just sit (doing their checkbook, or making a list, etc. DON'T DO THIS!)

The predator will be watching you, and this is the perfect opportunity for him to

get in on the passenger side, put a weapon to you, and tell you where to go.

AS SOON AS YOU GET INTO YOUR CAR, LOCK THE DOORS AND LEAVE.

If someone is in the car with a gun to your head DO NOT DRIVE OFF,

Repeat: DO NOT DRIVE OFF!

 

Instead gun the engine and speed into anything, wrecking the car.

Your Air Bag will save you.

If the person is in the back seat they will get the worst of it.

As soon as the car crashes bail out and run.

It is better than having them find your body in a remote location.

 

 

 

5. A few notes about getting into your car in a parking lot, or parking garage:

 

A.) Be aware: look around you, look into your car, at the passenger side floor , and in the back seat.

B.) If you are parked next to a big van, enter your car from the passenger door.

Most serial killers attack their victims by pulling them into their vans while the

women are attempting to get into their cars.

 

C.) Look at the car parked on the driver's side of your vehicle, and the passenger side.

If a male is sitting alone in the seat nearest your car, you may want to walk back into the mall,

or work, and get a guard/policeman to walk you back out.

 

IT IS ALWAYS BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY. (And better paranoid than dead.)

 

 

 

6. ALWAYS take the elevator instead of the stairs.

 

Stairwells are horrible places to be alone and the perfect crime spot.

(This is especially true at NIGHT!)

 

 

 

7. If the predator has a gun and you are not under his control, ALWAYS RUN!

 

The predator will only hit you (a running target) 4 in 100 times; and even then,

it most likely WILL NOT be a vital organ. RUN, Preferably in a zig -zag pattern!

 

 

 

8. As women, we are always trying to be sympathetic:

 

STOP

It may get you raped, or killed.

Ted Bundy, the serial killer, was a good-looking, well educated man, who ALWAYS played

on the sympathies of unsuspecting women. He walked with a cane, or a limp, and often

asked 'for help' into his vehicle or with his vehicle, which is when he abducted his next victim.

 

 

 

9. Another Safety Point:

 

Someone just told me that her friend heard a crying baby on her porch the night before last, and she called the police because it was late and she thought it was weird. The police told her 'Whatever you do, DO NOT open the door..'

 

The lady then said that it sounded like the baby had crawled near a window, and she was worried that it would crawl to the street and get run over. The policeman said, 'We already have a unit on the way, whatever you do, DO NOT open the door.' He told her that they think a serial killer has a baby's cry recorded and uses it to coax women out of their homes thinking that someone dropped off a baby. He said they have not verified it, but have had several calls by women saying that they hear baby's cries outside their doors when they're home alone at night.

 

10. Water scam!

 

If you wake up in the middle of the night to hear all your taps outside running or what you think is a burst pipe, DO NOT GO OUT TO INVESTIGATE! These people completely turn on all your outside taps so that you will go out to investigate and then attack.

 

Stay alert, keep safe, and look out for your neighbors!

If Big D buys it the answer is a resounding NO!!!!!

 

Hmmmm....

So is one with 125K still viable for some time?

She is such an evil person...You folks have no idea just how evil she is!

Yesterday, I was training my security folks. I run a church security ministry. We were working surprise attack scenerios. I'd have a team come through the door and someone would jump them and they would have to respond

So I took my turn as a "Bad guy"

Would you know it...I picked Little Sarah who is a black belt, and as luck would have it, her instructor who is somewhere north of where she is.

This little powder keg of a girl hit me in the jaw with a good one then several more times in the chest and stomach. Then Steve the tornado wrapped me up like a cheese sandwich. I got up out of that mess with a new level of respect for little girls!

Training and courage...goes a long ways!

Sounds intrestin'

I flew these with the German Army over two summers many moons ago.

Called Allouette 2's, they can really do crazy stunts like this:

https://www.facebook.com/thehelicopterpage/videos/1335117633177877/