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FrozenGate by Avery

Ever Have a Tree Break Out the Wall Of Your Fresh Water Holding Tank

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Well It was bound to happen since The logging company that owns the land next to ours logged there property trees have been comming down every time the wind blows now.
So One finally hit the mark and caved in the roof and one side of our 6500 gallon holding tank which is 1500 feet up the canyon from my place.
This tank serves 4 buildings so it has to be fixed and the work is under way now, we are sweating our gonads off in this heat wave :(
We have just cut the tree out of the way and put up the outer wall of the form when these pic's were taken, today 9-29-10

I'm standing on one wall of the tank looking up to the top of the canyon this tank is in.
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Cutting up the tree that hit the tank to use as back fill behind the form wall.
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The out side form wall in the tank.
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Stuffing some of the rounds cut from the offending tree into the back side of the form so it
dosn't blow out under the stress of 6000 pounds of concrete.
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Yep this is up in the woods about 1500 feet up a trail behind my place, we have to haul everything up the trail on quads.
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The tank is below the two fallen trees, you can see Ron with a couple 2x4's on his way to the tank.
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More pic's tomorrow. Ok it's tomorrow 9-30-10
After vacuuming the water off the floor Ron is emptying the shop vac into a large barrel cut down
to hold a sump pump to get the water out of the tank so we can see where the water is comming
in at the cracks. this had to be done over and over and over many times.
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Here is Justin is packing cotton rope into the crack at the base of the wall, we need to not have
water comming in while we are pouring concrete for the new wall.
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Packing more 1/4" cotton rope into cracks. I'm proud to say I
tought Justin how to Pack-a-Crack :crackup:
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Here's the outside form wall and the rebar that will be inside the wall.
You can see in the upper right we have nailed the form wall to the cut off stump of the tree that fell into the tank and broke the old wall.
This tank was original constructed in the 1920's We just replaced the 2" line that comes down the canyon with a new one one last year.
were hoping after all this work it lasts another 90 years :)
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An other angle of the form wall, that was one BIG tree, it busted out a chunk of the old wall that
was estamated to weigh 2000+ lbs.
we just got that busted up into 5 big pieces and hauled it out today.
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This is how we were getting the water off the floor and into the sump till we found a shop vac.
There are two pieces of wall that caved into the tank, you can see the larger one right behind Ron's behind :crackup:
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Any one seen this guy befor, I have seen many in this tank when checking it.
This guy would fit across the plam of my hand he's pretty big, I don't think any of the spiders
around here will mess with him :)
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As you can see we got so much cotton rope packed into the cracks we almost got the water
stopped from comming in, theres dry floor to stand on now.
For a couple days we were working in water.
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More pictures tomorrow ;) It's tomorrow Fri. 10-1-10
Ok the wall is almost finished only one more piece at the top.
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Now it's at the top on both sides, there's me keeping the water from getting to high.
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Here's a better pic of me manning the pumps.
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The form is finished and braced with a working platform and a step.
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I brought this old piece of HDPE pipe to the party and asked Justin to cut it in half and then screw it together end to end,
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and we made a FLUME ;) It's in front of the mixer on top of the form. I just noticed you can see the broken up wall on
the left side of the tank, with a come-a-long and logging chain hanging above from a big tree that is right above the tank.
We will have to remove that tree befor putting the new roof on here.
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So now that the tank work is finished we have to clear the trail down to it.
I already have carved out the ground where it needed it now we just have to cut out a couple downed trees.
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Well that ones out there, now we can get them 100 bags of ready mix down to the tank to be made into a new wall :)
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More pictures to follow ;) Here's more.
The concrete is in the form ;)
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Since I don't own this I didn't put my JK there but we did leave the date.
It ended up only using only 66 bags of ready mix.
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This tree is over 100 feet long.
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Grandma used to say, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" so I had Justin cut the
20" tree out of there as it went right across the canyon above the tank and I didn't want to be
back up here in 10 years fixing some thing it fell on.
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Once there's no ground to stsnd on then what do you do :thinking:
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All most done, at the half way point just above the tank.
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Peace All...
 
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That really sucks!

My cousin lives SW of McMinnville had one come down on their new shop due to some inexpierienced loggers! Can you say LAWSUIT!
 
The seasons are changing man... Winter now starts at the beginning of the year rather than the end :scared:
 
Sorry for that dude. Think possitive, at least noone was injured.
BTW nice woods pics.
 
Flamin, that really sux. Hope they are paying for the damage.
We had a horrible winter, for us, last yr. Rained forever then went super cold. Walking outside it sounded like rifle fire continuous from branches, trees breaking. Many trunks literally popped apart. Every heavy rain now is a new dam to clear in the little creek so the lower yard doesnt flood. Amazing how a 40' tree abt 2' in dia can make it down a snaky little creek and stick in my bank after getting through a 12' dia 30' long culvert.
I'm sure mine isnt over, hopefully yours will only be once and they pay for the work.
 
Whoppie we got the water stopped or realy close so now we can haul 75-80 bags of ready mix, and a mixer up the canyon, and mix and pour a wall, we'll we have to make the other side of the form first.
Sorry to all waiting on kits this is going to delay everone SORRY, but we realy need to flush :cryyy:

Peace All...
 
Wow, bummer for you guys. Looks like you have it under control and some good help. Hope it's up and running soon!


Jeffsgirl
 
This is some pretty cool documentation Jeff. Reminds me when I used to work with my father on building projects.
 
Just put up Fridays pictures, my ISP was down till late yesterday, and I been this long today answering PM's.

BTW post 2001 Wow

Peace All...
 
Congrats on passing the 2000 post mark.

So thats you FP?
Good looking guy ;)
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No offence but shouldn't this be on the offtopic section?

tons of offense taken:)...Cut the guy a break. Didn't you see all of the work he's been doing. :) LOL

FP, that sucks. It looks like your doing a good job fixing it up though.
 
I am impressed this guy is able to solder tiny contacts on an microboost, use a precise lathe, and also able to work as a bricklayer. Flaminpyro is there anything you aren't able to do? :)

Seriously, buddie, I wish you luck, and a soon end of the works.
About some off-topic comments here... just put a pic with a beam on the forest.
And not sure about the off-topic. I think you are explaining with detail why you can't deal with pending orders.
 
Thank you guys for all the kind words ;)
as far as off-topic maby it should have been in some other section but I don't think general is a bad place for it ?
At least I didn't put it in the review section as it would seem I've done a pretty good one if I do say so myself :crackup:
Well the wall was poured this morning, and this after noon I made a nice copper heatsink for Kryczeck's SH-032
so I'm back spinning copper :)
I was even up late last night and got 12 packages in the post today :D
I'm putting up some new pic's in the OP.

Peace All...




I am impressed this guy is able to solder tiny contacts on an microboost, use a precise lathe, and also able to work as a bricklayer. Flaminpyro is there anything you aren't able to do? :)

Seriously, buddie, I wish you luck, and a soon end of the works.
About some off-topic comments here... just put a pic with a beam on the forest.
And not sure about the off-topic. I think you are explaining with detail why you can't deal with pending orders.
 
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