Water Well Derrick / Windmill Tower - 04/30/16
Busted lift pipe again, on my irrigation pump,....damn thing took off the end of a finger last Sunday AM,
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The LOW, built on the fly, provisional setup I've been using to pull that pump just wasn't going to cut it, in terms of dealing with current challenge. A proper tower is going to be needed.
So, last Sunday evening......
Materials hauled in, and gear laid out for an early start
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday were pretty short, in terms of this project, ...I was helping neighbors with kidding, and spent a lot of time lining out new lift pipe couplings, and vetting this dumb, shortened finger. Got in good afternoon shifts in CRAZY wind,...
Got busy enough that I just quit taking pictures, the two "sides" were superimposed on one another, and than the gantry used to lift spread em' to a finished 8.5*. Transverse and base all welded off ( enough to hold it together.) Thursday just vanished in a storm of fussy details. This (currently) 22" tower will be "finished" where it stands, prior to lifting it onto a 8' High structural steel well house. My Neighbor brought his bigger machine over Thursday evening, and in a howling Sonora Chihuahua gale we used the forks on his and my smaller machine to tote it out, and jockey it upright. It was carried to the pad on the bigger machine's forks.
TBC
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The LOW, built on the fly, provisional setup I've been using to pull that pump just wasn't going to cut it, in terms of dealing with current challenge. A proper tower is going to be needed.
So, last Sunday evening......
Materials hauled in, and gear laid out for an early start
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday were pretty short, in terms of this project, ...I was helping neighbors with kidding, and spent a lot of time lining out new lift pipe couplings, and vetting this dumb, shortened finger. Got in good afternoon shifts in CRAZY wind,...
Got busy enough that I just quit taking pictures, the two "sides" were superimposed on one another, and than the gantry used to lift spread em' to a finished 8.5*. Transverse and base all welded off ( enough to hold it together.) Thursday just vanished in a storm of fussy details. This (currently) 22" tower will be "finished" where it stands, prior to lifting it onto a 8' High structural steel well house. My Neighbor brought his bigger machine over Thursday evening, and in a howling Sonora Chihuahua gale we used the forks on his and my smaller machine to tote it out, and jockey it upright. It was carried to the pad on the bigger machine's forks.
TBC