This and That . . .
Well, the word on the street is that our frack will wind down sometime the middle of this week. Or at least that’s the latest rumor. Of course they’re broke down right now, so who knows. The longer, the better as far as we’re concerned.
I came out a little early this afternoon so that I could take care of a few things. First up, after dropping our garbage off at the trash trailer at the pad, I wanted to reposition the most recent Mighty Mule Driveway Alarm we installed, the one catching the trucks leaving the pad and coming back our way.
While the first one I installed, for the trucks coming in, has been rock stable and never misses, this one has been somewhat flakey to say the least. It regularly misses vehicles coming out, leaving us to be surprised when a truck pulls up in front here, because we’re trying to catch the log up and get everything written down.
I think most of the problem is that fact that it’s located at the extreme range of the system. I know on this end, the receiver is very sensitive about where it’s located. A couple of feet can mean the difference between it working and not working, even though I can put my head next to the receiver and see the sensor down the road. So I don’t think it’s a ‘line of sight’ problem. And even stranger, it works better when it’s mounted at the rear of the canopy, and not closer to the sensor.
So what I did was just move it about 30 feet closer to us. Unlike the other sensor, this one’s out in the open since there’s no trees or bushes around to hide it.
The white blob at the base of the pole is a sheet of paper in a Ziploc bag telling what it is and who it belongs to.
And based on the rest of the afternoon, it looks like this may have fixed the problem. We’ll see.
Since we know our operation is close to finishing up, while I was out and about I thought I’d try to check out the new site. Or at least where I thought the new site was. We don’t know if we’re moving with the frack crew yet, but just to be on the safe side, I wanted to see if there was a decent place for us to park the rig in case we do move.
I had been told two different possible locations, but I quickly eliminated the first one. I was just a heavily rutted dirt road, and there was no way you’re going to get big rigs in there.
The second one was more promising, with a good gravel road like we’re on right now, and a lot of production wells along the way. But when the road ended in a pad about 3/4 of a mile, it looked like this site was already done, and also in production.
Plus there was a big pipeline header off to the side.
So it certainly didn’t look like they were getting ready to frack here. So I’ll have ask around some more.
Finished up, if you use the Square credit card reader on your smartphone, be sure you’re signed up to receive your new reader. The new one reads the ‘chipped’ cards, and will be required soon. And at some point your old one will quit working.
The new one does not plug into your phone, but is now separate and connects via Bluetooth. Check it out.
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Thought for the Day:
For every computer error there are two human errors, one of which is blaming the problem on the computer.
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