Good morning!!!!

[Looking4new]

Lou, you and me both. I ALWAYS question authority.
I always dress as I want. Right now I am wearing one of the companies' uniform shirts that I paid for. I have 7 of them and I WILL wear them until the company pays me what I paid for the shirts or I out grow them.

 

[sodamo]

68°F and 1.58 inches rain

Close to finish this round of mowing yesterday. Got my 2 most challenging banks cut

What remains is some significant low limb trimming of the eucalyptus and then tidy up the edges. My plan for the day wx permitting.

All this barn building talk. Caught myself looking at my tractorshed and thinking. Luckily I came to my senses.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great tractor day

 

[rswyan]

Made another half dozen calls to PA well drillers and hit pay dirt ... after a fashion.

Got a call back from a guy @ Book & Proch.

Large firm, 60 employees, has a geologist on staff, does a lot of drilling and well development for municipalities and large commercial firms.

No longer does work in Ohio, just too busy with more local stuff.

Teaches at the local college and was a speaker "at the winter conference" ? (NGWA maybe)

Agreed with my take on the educational level and technical expertise on some of the drillers in the industry ... a lot of "one man band" drilling outfits ... who are doing things "the way Pappy always used to do it" ... and see little to no need to keep up with the times and changing technology.

Got into some real specifics of how they would approach well rehab and for this area frac'ing wouldn't be it.

As Peter kind of alluded to, they had a frac'ing rig ($300K invested) and ended up selling it as it was not all that effective for the strata they typically work in. More effective as you go east (hard rock) ... and probably worse as you go west (Ohio)

Got the name of one firm from him located in Mansfield that he said was pretty competent. About an hour away. Reached out to them and made contact, guy I spoke to is pulling up info for local wells in the area and will give me a call back.

Also got the name of two firms to specifically avoid ...

 

[scott_vt]

Never Forget

 

[ponytug]

Made another half dozen calls to PA well drillers and hit pay dirt ... after a fashion.

Got a call back from a guy @ Book & Proch.

Large firm, 60 employees, has a geologist on staff, does a lot of drilling and well development for municipalities and large commercial firms.

No longer does work in Ohio, just too busy with more local stuff.

Teaches at the local college and was a speaker "at the winter conference" ? (NGWA maybe)

Agreed with my take on the educational level and technical expertise on some of the drillers in the industry ... a lot of "one man band" drilling outfits ... who are doing things "the way Pappy always used to do it" ... and see little to no need to keep up with the times and changing technology.

Got into some real specifics of how they would approach well rehab and for this area frac'ing wouldn't be it.

As Peter kind of alluded to, they had a frac'ing rig ($300K invested) and ended up selling it as it was not all that effective for the strata they typically work in. More effective as you go east (hard rock) ... and probably worse as you go west (Ohio)

Got the name of one firm from him located in Mansfield that he said was pretty competent. About an hour away. Reached out to them and made contact, guy I spoke to is pulling up info for local wells in the area and will give me a call back.

Also got the name of two firms to specifically avoid ...

That sounds like progress from a distance.

To me, that last line is a solid gold! The advice on how to rehab your well also sounds invaluable.

I hope that the outfit in Mansfield works out.

I just assumed that your well is in the NE Ohio Elyria/Dover sandstone. Do you have a drilling record for your well?

Good luck!

All the best,

Peter

 

[Buppies]

35 for low 50s for high very cloudy

Cleaning windows order of the day

Prayers for all our Country

 

[rswyan]

Peter,

I have a copy of the original drilling report. That one was filed with Ohio DNR.

However I think the well was drilled deeper at a later date.

No report on the DNR website for that one but pretty sure I have seen it around here … just haven’t been able to put my hands on it yet.

Elyria/Dover Sandstone sounds right.

Don’t have to go deep around here to hit water, most wells are less than 200’ from the research I’ve done.

 

[Thomas]

47F mostly cloudy.

8-1pm backpack blower was humming leaves indeed fallen and heavy,able to get half leaves clean up before my back pockets started bouncing off the ground.

Plans for the evening Mrs. soon heading to get Chinse take out,Im holding down recliner keeping tabs football game soon heading out to enjoy short cigar,pillow shall come early.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[Buppies]

Prayers your wife is on mend PopG scarey like watching wife fall a weekly occurrence but only bruises so far.

Riptides sorry about job hope something else comes along that suits your fancy

Nice pictures scotty and Ron

 

[Buppies]

rswyan number of years ago our well was 3 gallons a minute had earthquake went to 15 gallons per minute still there our well 400 feet

 

[scott_vt]

Good Tractor Afternoon,
Carmines 44th st.

 

[ronjhall]

Good Morning!!!! Thread competed another year on TBN. 14 years.
Thanks 300UGUY

 

[Buppies]

Thanks 300 guy and Ron for letting us know

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Overcast day.

 

[Wagtail]

Next Stop

Bluey!

I don't recognise the bloke in the red 'uniform', though.

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Sunday) morning. Overnight Low of 5C and it's presently 17.7C, mostly clear with a wee breeze.

I did decide not to attend Church this morning due to this cold. Just achy with sniffles, but I'd rather not spread it.

I'll probably have to put the woodheater on for tomorrow as the last 'hurrah' for Winter is predicted.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[txdon]

It finally rained 1.5" last night. good for the yard but not good for the last big weekend before Halloween at the "Farm". First pic is tractor fall decorations next pic is the very wet picnic table area the next pic is the owner in his skid steer trying to get the water and mud out of the petting zoo the last pic is it turned out to be a sunny, muddy day with a good crowd.

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[Looking4new]

I got the 5 way splitter and cable today, am listening to Tubular Bells (turned down low) and youtube videos simultaneously. The tunes are background music for the vids. Works good. Everything through headphones.

 

[Buppies]

Which train ride BEF?

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 63ºF for the start, overcast sky. light breeze. Light wind. clearing late morning and cloud back up in afternoon. High temp was 74ºF and 4 3/4 inch rain in gauge. Made coffee to start day, Loaded up bike on friend's pickup, picked up 3 rd rider and went to Lawton OK to ride. Biked up mount Scott, 52 miles total. saw several Bison up close and personal. No post yesterday due to no Internet.
Resuming Monday 10/29 6:02 AM CDT post 212,929:
Bill hope you enjoyed the slow day.
Frits that should be enough storage
Happy(nc) hope you have as good of luck as with the buggy.
ArlyA glad good time at camp. Hope post trip clean up/fix goes well. Nice camp pics.
Thomas sorry rain/wind drove you inside. Hope puttering went well.
RS glad you are getting caught up on rain. Sorry wife not happy with pumpkin bread. Hope you can get well producing better. Hope you Monday went well.
Paul glad trip to Asheville went well. Sounds like alot of work to get sound recordings the way you want them. Hope Monday went well. Nice Zoe pup pic.
Friend(trac) hope you got to work some hole punching yourself. Glad b-day celebration and dinner went well. Glad hole punchers cleaned without incident. Sorry to hear about girlfriend's mother. Glad whole place mowed.
Ken glad John Cleese was good. Good to hear work doing OK, good progress on new project.
Engineer nice pic.
Peter(tug) thanks for Dengue fever info.
David sorry about losing the Top link pin twice. Hope it dried out.
Billy thanks for tin info on DEET and picaridin.
hard to realize you have had the LS for 6 years.
Billy glad good Costco run.Dennis good luck with Linux, I have run SCO unix, 4.3 and System V unix. Glad you found notary. Sorry sleep in effort didn't go well.
Thomas sorry rain messed with progress. Sorry to hear ECHO backpack to heavy for you.Hope you are getting enough sleep.
David sorry mowing ended early due to rain.
Scott(vt) glad good radio work. Good to hear progress on rocker spindles. Hope you get everything ready for trip.
Randy(wag) glad not a lot of cleanup after the last wind event. Hope you get plenty of rain.
Kyle hope you enjoyed watching the tennis matches. Hope you find the kit. hope you got some rain, we got a lot of rain but a lot of runoff as well.
Buppies hope you are sleeping and are ready for winter. prayers sent.
more catch up later
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /son's migraines, Mike /BIL in FL, Ron /heart, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /cancer, parathyroid, blood sugar /wife, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, Frits /veteran son with mental issues, /granddaughter with Evans Syndrome, Ken /chronic fatigue, Diet not working, Randy(wag) /sister stoke, Scott(vt) /wife's back pain, Steppenwolfe /son-auto immune disorder, Grev /wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement & disability red tape, /family issues, /wife back issues and cancer, Lou /eye issues, /heart issues, /wife hip replacement, Doug and wife/health issues, / hand nerve and surgery, /fall and recovery, / wife headaches and heart eval, / David(sadamo)/Sophie's hip or leg pain, Eye recovery, /back issue, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /marriage dissolving, / friend stop drinking, Dennis /retirement, /neighbor issues, /brother's lymphoma, /dad surgery recovery, Drew /back operation issues, /friend's wife cancer diagnosis and recovery, Scotty /back pain, Helogabals /wife's friend situation, Fatjay /father broken hip, Ukraine war, Middle East War, and Country.