OSA Chit Chat Thread

[dennishoddy]

I was fired off a job once because I wanted to do it right rather than fast. Oh well, went on to bigger and better

I had that issue once. It was on an assembly line where each station waited on each to finish their project and move to the next station. (machine tools)
I was never the fastest to complete a job but when done it never had any more issues.
Plant manager came out once when a particular repair was taking a little time and he questioned why.
Never turned around to look at him but replied I have two speeds I work at. The first is to make sure the work I'm doing is safe for my personal safety and to provide the company with the best work I can do.
The second speed I work at you won't like at all and never said another word. I never heard anything from him either and he walked away.

We have WATER!!
We completed the repair with flexible PEX 1 1/2" plastic pipe. We needed a 10' piece, but I had to buy 300' as that was the shortest length they had.
Made the repair and it held. Backfilled the hole and we are good to go for now.
The POS that put in the line used schedule 20 PVC vs Schedule 40 which is more than twice as thick. As the ground is shifting with the drought the likelihood of further breaks is imminent.
Talked to our friend and asked how much it would cost to run the rest of that PEX down the hill so there would be no glue joints, etc.
We settled on a price that was good for us. My task now to clear out the brush and trees up that hill where the line runs so he can get in there with the track hoe and follow the existing line to demo the original PVC and replace with the PEX.
He can clear the trees with the Track Hoe, but it costs for his time so to save some bucks I'll do the clearing. Lots of chainsaw work ahead.
As a side note, I've cleared most of the brush and trees with a dewalt 20V electric chain saw that has a 12" blade, cutting 8" trees and smaller.
Recharged it two times. It runs half a day on a single charge. It's a beast! No hearing protection required. Totally impressed with it. I have bigger Husky and Poulan saws, but no need.

 

[OkieJoe72]

@dennishoddy I’ll be installing a water line here shortly that will be about 1/4 mile. Do you know what kind of fittings your guy will be using underground? From what I’ve read, I’m leaning towards the Sharkbite push together fittings. My second choice is the stainless steel clamp ring. Both are rated for underground.

 

[dancer4life]

Good Tuesday morning folks.

 

[TerryMiller]

Good morning, All. Had a luxury this morning by getting to sleep in, and I didn't get up until almost 8:30 am. Life with my wife when we are doing the Summer job involves getting up every morning at around 6:00. But, even that is better than prior to retirement. Pre-retirement time for getting up was 5:00 am.

I've got two of my cameras in the vehicle, and as we drove to and from the Tulsa area yesterday to turn in the work van, I saw some pretty good Fall colors. I may have to go looking for more.

Hope everyone enjoys their day today.

 

[TerryMiller]

Major UPDATE to my comment that everyone enjoys their day....

....I just had breakfast with REAL eggs and sausage.

After 3 months of hotel breakfasts, IT WAS HEAVENLY!!!!

 

[dennishoddy]

@dennishoddy I’ll be installing a water line here shortly that will be about 1/4 mile. Do you know what kind of fittings your guy will be using underground? From what I’ve read, I’m leaning towards the Sharkbite push together fittings. My second choice is the stainless steel clamp ring. Both are rated for underground.

The sharkbite have a good reputation so far from what I'm reading.
My guy used some brass fittings for the PEX to PVC conversion.
It was basically a double compression fitting with a collar on the end to clamp into the pipe to keep the compression fitting from crawling off the connection for higher pressure water lines.
Standard compression fittings like this

using rubber gaskets will crawl one way or another when the water hammer from the pump starting tries to separate the pipe when in the configuration the POS used in our line.
My guy used a fitting similar to this to connect the PEX to the PVC. I guarantee it won't separate.

 

[dennishoddy]

Speaking of a great Tuesday with water back in the home, went to help a friend cover his tomato plants for the freeze tonight. He has about 20 plants and I only had enough tarps and plastic to cover half of them so we picked the biggest green ones not under cover to wrap in newspaper and ripen later. We have done this in the past getting garden tomatoes to ripen in December.
I reserved a dozen of the biggest greenest ones he had to bring home and grill on the pellet stove tonight.
Marinated in Zesty Italian salad dressing for a few minutes and put on the grill at 350 to cook.
Flipped at 20 minutes and cooked another 20.
Took them off, dusted with salt, pepper garlic powder and onion powder before enjoying one of my favorite meals.
Four 5 gallon buckets of green tomatoes, so there will be a lot of green tomato salsa, fried green tomatoes, and who knows what else.
We eat more green than ripe.

 

[Hodrod]

Speaking of a great Tuesday with water back in the home, went to help a friend cover his tomato plants for the freeze tonight. He has about 20 plants and I only had enough tarps and plastic to cover half of them so we picked the biggest green ones not under cover to wrap in newspaper and ripen later. We have done this in the past getting garden tomatoes to ripen in December.
I reserved a dozen of the biggest greenest ones he had to bring home and grill on the pellet stove tonight.
Marinated in Zesty Italian salad dressing for a few minutes and put on the grill at 350 to cook.
Flipped at 20 minutes and cooked another 20.
Took them off, dusted with salt, pepper garlic powder and onion powder before enjoying one of my favorite meals.
Four 5 gallon buckets of green tomatoes, so there will be a lot of green tomato salsa, fried green tomatoes, and who knows what else.
We eat more green than ripe.

YUM....YUM....YUM........!!!!!

 

[dancer4life]

Good Wednesday morning folks.
Pretty chilly this morning.

 

[THAT Gurl]

FINALLY!! A day off! I didn't get up until 7:15 (work starts at 7! ) Now I'm laying under the covers while a baby kitty plays "Kill it DEAD!" with my wiggly feet under the covers! She is wearing herself out!

Lazy day for me. Kids are coming over later to do some work in the back yard ... We will have some fun then!!

You guys enjoy this weather! My favorite time of the year. I LOVE things "brisk" ...