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Java230 said:
Foot blows. No pain killers do anything. Sitting by the fire in the boot with my foot on a stool....

Pass got a dumping and I can't ski 😭😭😭😭
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Dilaudid, ask for it by name:flipoff2:
 
JNHEscher said:
Fire looks nice though. Nice helping of snow, too.
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The blower is pretty slick. I like it. Does go thru wood tho :lmao:

RusM said:
Dilaudid, ask for it by name:flipoff2:
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They won't give me shit. Well hydeocodone, but the weak ones. Nothing touches it. It's just internal joint fucked up pain. It's getting a bit better but just hurts all the damn time.
 
Anyone have experience with well Points?

This is the area that is always wet. There is standing water there right now.
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I was hoping to go in horizontally at the bottom edge of that hill, but I'm not 100% sure it will be low enough to hit the water? Run at a shallow angle down? The idea behind horizontal is it may flow out a bit and not need a pump?

Thoughts?
 
Drummer79 said:
oh ok you want to capture this water for usage, not just get rid of a wet spot. I misunderstood your intent.
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The drainage trench we dug stops just short of this spot. If I do get a spring going I'll put some drain rock down and connect it. It runs to a culvert and out to the creek.
 
Java230 said:
The drainage trench we dug stops just short of this spot. If I do get a spring going I'll put some drain rock down and connect it. It runs to a culvert and out to the creek.
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Ok i'm still lost then. you're not trying to collect drinking water? Just drain it off to the creek? Need the flowing water to run some kind of power or something? Or have I missed something earlier in this thread?
 
Drummer79 said:
Ok i'm still lost then. you're not trying to collect drinking water? Just drain it off to the creek? Need the flowing water to run some kind of power or something? Or have I missed something earlier in this thread?
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Ha I would love it to be drinking water.

If it dewaters the area too, great. I have a trench dug just below that spot in the pics, where a ton of standing water was last spring, it runs down a swale, thru a culvert under the road and down to the creek by the beaver dams.

I'd rather it flow and not need to pump it if possible.
 
Java230 said:
Ha I would love it to be drinking water.

If it dewaters the area too, great. I have a trench dug just below that spot in the pics, where a ton of standing water was last spring, it runs down a swale, thru a culvert under the road and down to the creek by the beaver dams.

I'd rather it flow and not need to pump it if possible.
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Ok. well yeah, if it's a spring, basically french draining it with like 57 stone or something, or just an extended swale, should probably over time dry the area up. If it's a really strong spring, then yeah dig out the wet area and stone it. It should make it usable and dry enough to drive/walk over even if it runs water for the next hundred years.
 
If it's a spring, dig down and make a well and run it down to a ram pump. You can pump up 4' for every foot of drop. Its not high pressure but it'll move the water.
 
Drummer79 said:
Ok. well yeah, if it's a spring, basically french draining it with like 57 stone or something, or just an extended swale, should probably over time dry the area up. If it's a really strong spring, then yeah dig out the wet area and stone it. It should make it usable and dry enough to drive/walk over even if it runs water for the next hundred years.
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Yeah If it comes out at the surface from a driven pipe, I will dig a trench and rock it. Should dry the area around it a bit and give me water.
 
Thumping said:
If it's a spring, dig down and make a well and run it down to a ram pump. You can pump up 4' for every foot of drop. Its not high pressure but it'll move the water.
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Trying to avoid the pump. If I do go vertical I will prob put an old school cast iron hand pump on it.
 
Java230 said:
Trying to avoid the pump. If I do go vertical I will prob put an old school cast iron hand pump on it.
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Are you familiar with the ram pump? No electric and just a couple of moving parts like the check valve.
 
Java230 said:
Have generator too. Just sucks to have to dig it out (literally) get it started etc. One down side to the pellet stove. It needs power.

I'm tempted to do better battery bank. Power came back by 4am ish
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If the pellet stove is the only "critical" 120V need, you could get an uninterruptable power supply for it or make a UPS for it with a small inverter, marginal 12V battery and a trickle charger.
 
ExWrench said:
If the pellet stove is the only "critical" 120V need, you could get an uninterruptable power supply for it or make a UPS for it with a small inverter, marginal 12V battery and a trickle charger.
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Hmmm ups is a good idea! It's the only critical thing! I do have some old batteries and an inverter, but they are so tired it wouldn't run the stove
 
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