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Weldman
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Two days early
The journey into the abyss of no return
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How's she heating that shed in the winter?Yes it's all a mess, you should of seen the place before I started, scattered over 10 acres and it's how she has the place. Blames it on the wind, yet claims where her home (shed) is it's in the perfect spot from the wind
No it shows you are sloppy.
What's really funny is excavating around what looks to be used toilet paper or baby wipes they she might have used on her coochieTrying to navigate around it all was a circus act, especially when it came to Oh BTW moments of what she wanted next.
Water tank is going in a hole with a deck built over right where it sits next to the hole. I personally think she is doing it backwards.
First step, secure your basic essentials and pay the property off while living in the shed, then if you can't do it yourself build a house. Quit buying all these flowers, trees and plants that don't belong out here.
No electricity besides a generator, water from 5 gallon jugs, goats are there, no septic yet, and y'all seen the greenery planted. Lastly, please shut the F up, you aren't as successful as you claim to be in life owning top chef businesses that you started in Seattle WA along with all these other grand businesses. If you was, you would had your property paid off and me lined up to doing your house/septic this year.
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Weldman
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Some oversized pellet stove meant for a house.
rachels.haven
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These people sound like the kind of people that used to be in northern TN when I was a kid. They're not there now. (Not sure what happened to them...unless they sealed their TN tiny house too tight while running said pellet stove. )
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Weldman
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Oh the schit I hear and see out here, no wonder I’m walking over them. I don’t have experience from one area, I have world wide experience several times over.
We are really about to blow the top when we start a well drill company out here as the dynasty has ran it all the past 40 plus years with total control.
Here is the “current list” look for the ones in Miles City. BTW Askin is the kids of Higgins.
https://dnrc.mt.gov/Water-Resources/Well-Contractors-Drillers/driller-list-by-name-2023.pdf
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Baymule
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Congratulations on the first litter. Baby piggies are so cute….. for a little while! You will rock your area when you get your license for well drilling. Shake up the status quo’s tentacled hold on everyone.
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SageHill
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............ and we all said - sure get some pigs, get a few more, get a boarWell, I can honestly say, I have been dragged by a pig for about 200'. Didn't have that on my bucket list, but sure why not.
rachels.haven
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Darn pigs all made out of lead and muscle and all.
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Weldman
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I have to say now I have rested and had time to reflect back on what I just went through with this wildfire. Couple of times it got dicey to the point of dumping water bottles on myself and a blanket I had to keep from burning alive. Ran out of water and had to ditch the blanket since it caught fire.
With an open cab I got in some situations that embers were landing on me and I had nothing but boots and pair of shorts on as there was no time to "suit up"
Pushed the machine so hard I pegged the torque converter temp gauge and it stayed there for hours. There was failure in communication, but my gut feeling saved my arse as the embers were raining down on me and I seen we lost the line.
I knew on the other side was a community and my wife with no clue on what is going on and I had no clue on how far it went past the line, so I pushed the machine further in to the fire to get high as possible to send an evacuation order out to the wife as our property was the first of occupied properties to be consumed shall it made it that far.
To put it in perspective it was night time when doing this as I started around 1500 hrs, help didn't arrive till 1800 hrs. and we lost the line around 2100 hrs. With my tablet and Onx maps as the fire was enclosing I picked the best terrain and punched through 20 acres to the road leading to my home.
Got to the road and several agencies were on UTV's trying to evac the area and didn't know where to go which is where I pointed them in the right direction. Got home around 2300 hrs and started cleaning up my firebreaks I already had and started moving everything in the zone, wife was gone and so was the neighborhood. Started driving around the neighborhood plowing in firebreaks around the community to make a line best as possible till about 0100 hrs when I finally circled back to my place with the loader still pegged out on transmission temps.
One of the dozer operators is a private equipment operator like me in a D6 who was my preacher that married me and the wife showed up as I was about to shut the machine down and he said my place was best one to make a stand at in the morning with a fire crew. Plenty of water, perfect orientation of firebreaks.
At one time we had 3 dozers going, road grader, chinook, two jets dropping retardant, a cargo plane dropping retardant and 4 counties of firefighters with DNRC. Fire only got to 560 acres, but still it was a fight with shifting winds and steep terrain.
In the middle of this every person I have met out here was asking what is going on as no one had a clue, they didn't knock on the doors I told them to and I was keeping the community FB page updated while off grid with spotty reception.
Was a lesson learning experience that I can now look at other peoples property and when they ask my opinion, I can speak from experience not from what one read from somewhere or video they watched.
Drank 160 gallons of diesel, 5 gallons of gas, 15 gallons of hydraulic oil and the loader will need repairs after this and a few thousand gallons of water. I sacrificed one of my properties for saving many others.
With an open cab I got in some situations that embers were landing on me and I had nothing but boots and pair of shorts on as there was no time to "suit up"
Pushed the machine so hard I pegged the torque converter temp gauge and it stayed there for hours. There was failure in communication, but my gut feeling saved my arse as the embers were raining down on me and I seen we lost the line.
I knew on the other side was a community and my wife with no clue on what is going on and I had no clue on how far it went past the line, so I pushed the machine further in to the fire to get high as possible to send an evacuation order out to the wife as our property was the first of occupied properties to be consumed shall it made it that far.
To put it in perspective it was night time when doing this as I started around 1500 hrs, help didn't arrive till 1800 hrs. and we lost the line around 2100 hrs. With my tablet and Onx maps as the fire was enclosing I picked the best terrain and punched through 20 acres to the road leading to my home.
Got to the road and several agencies were on UTV's trying to evac the area and didn't know where to go which is where I pointed them in the right direction. Got home around 2300 hrs and started cleaning up my firebreaks I already had and started moving everything in the zone, wife was gone and so was the neighborhood. Started driving around the neighborhood plowing in firebreaks around the community to make a line best as possible till about 0100 hrs when I finally circled back to my place with the loader still pegged out on transmission temps.
One of the dozer operators is a private equipment operator like me in a D6 who was my preacher that married me and the wife showed up as I was about to shut the machine down and he said my place was best one to make a stand at in the morning with a fire crew. Plenty of water, perfect orientation of firebreaks.
At one time we had 3 dozers going, road grader, chinook, two jets dropping retardant, a cargo plane dropping retardant and 4 counties of firefighters with DNRC. Fire only got to 560 acres, but still it was a fight with shifting winds and steep terrain.
In the middle of this every person I have met out here was asking what is going on as no one had a clue, they didn't knock on the doors I told them to and I was keeping the community FB page updated while off grid with spotty reception.
Was a lesson learning experience that I can now look at other peoples property and when they ask my opinion, I can speak from experience not from what one read from somewhere or video they watched.
Drank 160 gallons of diesel, 5 gallons of gas, 15 gallons of hydraulic oil and the loader will need repairs after this and a few thousand gallons of water. I sacrificed one of my properties for saving many others.
