Recent content by Weldman

Not in operation yet so the brakes were on. I was tasked with burying the junctions of where the wires met that connected tower to tower. I got hired on towards the end of the contract and they canned me for not being fast enough within a week working there. Never again.

Derecho you say, I was in an excavator when one hit. I made sure to flip the excavator around and anchor down. I can feel it rock the excavator. I thought the field was on fire when it first started.

I make sure it's at least 0800 to 0900 hrs before I crank up my machinery, especially that Cat 977K unless it's an emergency. You know a mile before it gets down the road it's coming as your coffee rattles off the coffee table. Going to try and get it together today and get ready for this...

Yeah especially when most hate each other, others don't know the other and I don't like most of them myself as they don't like me either. What is going to be the real challenge, I'm going to try and reign in the crazy one using her boy toy and put a end to this shenanigans.

I tend to lead well and can gather a militia to work together despite their indifference's, it's actually scary. Today was a perfect example, thinking about all the rock I need to move in 3 miles of road. The guy wanted me to drive to town, pay for the rock, bring it home and spread it for...

Since our properties aren't flat and the ground doesn't absorb water well due to clay content, there will be about 80 acres of water coming off the ridge and that's where its going to in a rock drain and then that will flow to a pond. To top it off it I will seal it with the bacon bits as the...

It's interesting the winds hit up to 80 something MPH at peak and sustained around 70 something MPH for a few hours or less in SE Texas and the world is falling apart, but when winds rip through here for 3 days straight, its as if just another day out here. I tell you what it is, it's build to...

The way I figure it is it's going to take some working with the soil and fertilizing it. All the duck and hog wallowing water I have been collecting will absorb right in there after I break the surface up. About 11.5 miles down this road is a farm of corn, so if they can do it then I can do it...

I give it a month or two here and this duck pond is going to be jumping with toads again as last year.

I have to ask myself, what the hell am I doing, I'm retired with a pension.

Time to strap on some coveralls slap a straw hat on and cue the theme song from Green Acres, we are going to secure our food for the bacon bits.

El Niño year, very unlikely though I heard LA Niña is coming and will be in full effect by August. That's where all this rain is from, El Niño.

That is next on my list of things to put in, first is finishing this today of what I started yesterday. Got another 8 feet to go.

That answer my friend is blowin' in the wind. Wasn't till May of last year that I got my first set of ducks, now we are at around over 150 of these running around, 8 geese and 12 guinea fowl if I counted right, a LGD and plus 11 pigs now in less than a year. We average 13 inches a rain here a...

Pretty today with highs of 80°F tomorrow is rain. At this rate I am running out of IBC totes to save the water. I have a half of a frac tank I am going to weld up any holes and use. A frac tank is 12' in diameter by 20' in length and can hold 16,800 gallons of water, this portion at 12' wide by...