Daily Archives: October 3, 2014
Back in Business . . .
Well, we seem to be back in business, at least canopy-wise. After starting the night like this,
I cut way the shredded canopy fabric and ended up with this.
Looking over the bare frame, I was really surprised to see that nothing was actually broken, or even bent, just kind of sprung out of shape. So I redid the tiedowns, and crossing my fingers, pulled on one of the poles.
And everything just popped back into place, just like it does when I set up it up normally. It looks like the elbow joints on the arms that support the raised roof are spring-loaded to some extent, and this protected the frame from any real damage.
Next I got out my 10’ x 20’ tarp that I used last year as a windbreak when it got cold since we didn’t have the rig behind us to block the cold north winds.
And after about an hour of fussing and cussing, I had the tarp tie-wrapped to the frame in a usable fashion. At 10’ x 20’ it’s a little too short in one direction and a little long in the other for my 13’ x 13’ canopy frame, but it works. And actually seems pretty sturdy. Later in the afternoon we had some fairly stiff gusting winds from the west, and the canopy handled it just fine.
The reason it looks so lumpy from this side is that is where the extra length is folded back over the top and tied down.
I going to check and see what a new fabric top would cost. Since that comes from Coleman, the manufacturer, I’ve heard that a new top costs as much as an entire brand new canopy from Amazon. We’ll see.
When Scotty, our GGS support tech, was here a couple of weeks ago, I told him I lose a water pump every year, and if he wanted to save himself an extra service call, he might just want to leave me a spare. But he didn’t have one.
And today he paid for that. He was just here this past Monday for our regular two week service, but was back out today to repair our water pump. As usual it was the pressure switch that turns the pump on when you open the faucet, and luckily he had a spare switch so he just replaced that. So I guess that’s my pump repair for the year.
While he was here I asked him to replace one of our bell hoses that had been severely shorten by a bulldozer running over it, and also add some extra length to both ends. And he not only did that, but left me some extra hose and a couple of joiners if I wanted them longer.
It always helps if you feed your support guy a couple of the delicious home-made brownies that Brandi brought up this past weekend.
Well, we have a supposed date for the fracing to start: October 17th. And even more supposedly, they may be doing two fracs at the same time. But not on the same pad. There are two different pads with two different companies.
As I mentioned the other day, on our frac gate last year, with just one frac job, we were doing 300+ vehicles coming in a day, and a large number going out. Let’s call it 500 vehicles coming in and out through the gate a day, so 1000 for two.
I have a very bad feeling about this.
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