the metal bending equipment one has to look around and find that one size needed to complete this task...

  And sure nuff this used 8" grinding stone happened to be the exact size I needed for some hold down clamps for the lake pump I'm mounting on the boat dock...I was getting too much wind and it was causing the dock to toss and turn and made extra play in the threads of the pipe coming out of the pump and the pressure shot the 1 1/2" pipe right out of the end of the pump...and then after I had a hose sales shop make me a few feet of flexible pipe to go between the dock and the walk way I think I am almost ready for more water up there on the land side to cause more work for the zero turn.

  Also if any one likes to do his own work I do have some extra tips dealing with pvc and pumps and sprinklers and that sort of things.. But first I need to locate the things and take some pictures so they can actually show the rights from the wrongs in this line of home up keep...

Be sure to put a timer on the pump.  If you forget it's on and go to bed you might wake up to your boat sitting in the mud.  Neighbors won't be happy either.

Dan I think everyone who lives on this lake pays to use the lake water and if they bought water front lots when the lake was opened in 59 then they are grandfathered in ay 50 a year but when I took out my license in 99 it had went up to 150 a year..and I think every one pays to use the water. Most all has their pumps are set up on their land and lays a long line out but I believe I am the only one who's pump is attached on a floating dock? Either set up has their own problems. the ones having to maintain a long pipe laying on the ground gets things caught in the suction and stops up their lines where I have this wind problem and it causes loose connections every once in a while. Also there are very few houses that are not water front...it just happened that way for most folks would rather live in town if they can't live on the water... and for me after about two years we never go down to the water or on the dock and we sold the boat few years ago...but just yesterday me wife made me get a fishing license. She had heard vets gets theirs free and I had been paying for one all these years and getting it yesterday was just to see if it was free for vets? I haven't fished for a few years for I would rather be in the shop!

3 hours ago, Smallpatch said:

and I think every one pays to use the water

 

I remember a few years back when you had a drought and the lake went low.  Nice to see it was only temporary.  Your wife gets a free license too.  Get her to pack a picnic lunch and make a day of it.

I would check with the local organization and make sure your $150 is not just for monitoring and testing the lake water.

If you and your neighborhs are pulling water out faster than it comes in the is a disaster in progress.

Most lakes around me are wells only never are we allowed to pull water directly out of the lake and also is your lake certified clean enough for human consumption?  Not one of ours is including our resivour.

 

 

Michael we don't drink this water but we do eat some of the things that are grown using the lake water....do you think this type of use is detrimental to my height for after we moved here I stopped growing...

   I also think it says somewhere in the contract that we should not send any of this water off to be tested because the results might make us die right there as we are reading the results...

 Dan this was the first time since 1959 the lake had dried up as much as it did and some of the people who were looking for lost fishing lures came upon a few indian graves that had been covered with water all those years....that caused all the authorities to do extra praying for rain before someone in Washington came out and looked things over and fainted....and worst of all the locals figured Washington would order the mile long highway bridge over part of the lake would have to be rerouted through you guessed it, Oklahoma and Texans does not drive through Oklahoma unless. whups, there is no unless for a Texan will shoot themselves dead is someone orders an Oklahoma routing...…..

Edited June 24, 20206 yr by Smallpatch

11 minutes ago, Smallpatch said:

I also think it says somewhere in the contract that we should not send any of this water off to be tested because the results might make us die right there as we are reading the results...

A wood disk with some big washers would have worked too.