Pallet Project #2 Strawberry Planter

Pallet Project #2 turned into a strawberry planter.

Pallet Project 1 Herb Planter

Our first pallet project involved adding black fabric and dirt to make an herb planter. 

Scrap Wood Project 1

 

We wanted to start with something simple so Maranda found a way to take paint sticks and turn them into an American Flag. 

Here is the finished design. 

The design came from Craft Cuts.com

Pump Technician Day 15 Final Day

Friday was very slow. I doped some pipes, and spray painted Strom Electric onto this tool kit. I left at 2:30. On Monday, I showed up and Todd fired me, but paid me for an 8 hour day. I was very grateful for the learning experiences and the people I met.

Pump Technician Day 14

Our project for the day involved wiring new electrical from the well and septic to the house.

TJ had me wire across the rafters. It reminded me of when I put 100 feet off ethernet cable to connect to a hub when installing the equipment for my dads EMR system.

I got to go into the crawl space to find conduit which I never found after six attempts.

 

I did find some poly tubing that the conduit was supposedly under and pulled it up to the hole in the wall which was completely unnecessary.

While I was trying to find the conduit TJ and Kurt installed the pipes to connect the cistern pump and install the floaters.

I got to watch a cool tractor filling in a foundation

Pump Technician Day 13

We went to a new subdivision where we installed new pipes into the cistern

Here are the new pipes. 

Kurt and TJ put in a new pump for the well.

We installed a warning light and floaters to shut the pump off when the water reaches certain levels.

Pump Technician Day 12

We worked on Kenrick's well system which required removing the roof of the pump house.

Here is the roof lowered to the ground.

Here is the old setup.

Each pipe was 3 inches wide and 20 feet long.

Here are the pipes all laid out. They are around 43 years old.

Here is the pump and old wiring ready to be taken back to the shop.

Pump Technicician Day 11

These are the bits used in the drilling of the well. They were left at the job site.

I had to clear out the water to expose the pipe.

We put on a stop valve after melting the steel with a torch.

Here are the pipes laid out for the installation of the new pump.

Here is the new pump ready to be installed.

Kurt hooked up the pump to a generator and we waited 3 hours to do a flow test to see what the gallons per minute were. We were trying to run it dry, but that didn't happen.

Pump Technician Day 10

I started the day sorting different parts to familiarize myself with them. I told Todd I needed to get off early because Taden was getting an award at the school assembly. He told me to drive to Kendrick and drive home after the project is finished. We dropped my van off at Kendrick then drove about 30 minutes up the mountain to fix a leak in a pipe from the well. 

The leak was very noticeable as soon as he turned on the water. Luckily it was the pipe going to an old abandoned house. The owner said to just abandon the pipe.

I dug around the pipe a little bit more, and TJ connected a stop plug and took off the handles. What we thought would be several hours took about 15 minutes. 

The owner had a side-by-side which is one of the toys that TJ wants to buy next that I had never heard of. The owner used this one to drive from the shop to the well about 1000 feet away.

Pump Technician Day 9

I got my first experience with a septic tank. As TJ cut off the old pipe it fell into the poop water. He made a fishing pole by connecting a 90 piece of PVC and was able to fish it out. I was grateful because he was going to have me go in and get it if he didn't get it. I didn't have my boot yet, and it would not have been pleasant for my already falling apart tennis shoes. 

Here is the new pump installed that acts like a sump pump shooting the gray water up the hill instead of towards the river.

The next project involved fixing a leaky pipe. 

TJ had to go down the small hole and cut off the old copper pipe and replace it with PVC and brass fittings.

The next project was to install the warning light for when the float detects the water level is to low.

Here is the warning light installed.

Pump Technician Day 8

Our project for the day involved going and installing floats and a pressure tank for a town house and RV Park. The pipes were previously installed and as Kurt put it are a "convoluted mess" They are fully expecting to be called back when the system doesn't work. 

Here is Kurt putting the floats in the 5000 gallon tank. The complex has three of them.

To end the day I got to try out the antique 1940's motorized exercise bike.

Pump Technician Day 7

My first project was to remove the INC. from the sign because they are no longer a corporation.

I used a heat gun and a plastic handmade utility knife to remove the vinyl letters.

The second project involved using a stencil machine to stencil the box I made.

Steve decided to call it Lil' Tugger

Another test was too move a motor with the fork lift to the scrap iron bin. 

It was a success and I didn't hit or break anything.