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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.
Cutting up the tree that hit the tank to use as back fill behind the form wall.
The out side form wall in the tank.
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.
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.
The tank is below the two fallen trees, you can see Ron with a couple 2x4's on his way to the tank.
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.
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.
Packing more 1/4" cotton rope into cracks. I'm proud to say I
tought Justin how to Pack-a-Crack :crackup:
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
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.
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:
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
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.
More pictures tomorrow It's tomorrow Fri. 10-1-10
Ok the wall is almost finished only one more piece at the top.
Now it's at the top on both sides, there's me keeping the water from getting to high.
Here's a better pic of me manning the pumps.
The form is finished and braced with a working platform and a step.
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,
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.
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.
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
More pictures to follow Here's more.
The concrete is in the form
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.
This tree is over 100 feet long.
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.
Once there's no ground to stsnd on then what do you do :thinking:
All most done, at the half way point just above the tank.
Peace All...
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.
Cutting up the tree that hit the tank to use as back fill behind the form wall.
The out side form wall in the tank.
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.
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.
The tank is below the two fallen trees, you can see Ron with a couple 2x4's on his way to the tank.
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.
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.
Packing more 1/4" cotton rope into cracks. I'm proud to say I
tought Justin how to Pack-a-Crack :crackup:
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
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.
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:
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
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.
More pictures tomorrow
It's tomorrow Fri. 10-1-10Ok the wall is almost finished only one more piece at the top.
Now it's at the top on both sides, there's me keeping the water from getting to high.
Here's a better pic of me manning the pumps.
The form is finished and braced with a working platform and a step.
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,
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.
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.
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
More pictures to follow
Here's more.The concrete is in the form
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.
This tree is over 100 feet long.
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.
Once there's no ground to stsnd on then what do you do :thinking:
All most done, at the half way point just above the tank.
Peace All...
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