Allis Chalmers Playground underwater
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Topic: Allis Chalmers Playground underwater
Posted By: AC Mel
Subject: Allis Chalmers Playground underwater
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2014 at 2:55pm
Those of you who follow these posts have heard me refer to our irrigation pond clean out project as the Allis Chalmers Playground. California is having one of the worst droughts in modern history. We had appox. 7" of rain between Friday morning and yesterday. It was predicted and was right on schedule In most normal years this would have happened in November or December and definitely before February  After the first 2" started the creeks running it took about 8 hours to fill this lake.  So the concrete spillway dumps into a 4 foot dia concrete pipe for appox.100 feet and then to the next lake. There are a total of 5 different dams and lakes on this drainage. 4 are full now and it started on the last one  So the Allis Chalmers collection is parked for the season now. The HD15 that pulls the cable scraper had been moved to the shop to replace the brake band. Some of the other stuff will probably migrate to the shop too. The droughts not over either. 
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Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2014 at 4:02pm
| Wow , glad you got some rain , the ole AC,s done a fine job |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2014 at 4:16pm
Had me goin there for a minute. I thought maybe you had left them there............
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Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2014 at 8:02pm
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I remember hearing about someone finishing combining corn in a water retention lake that hardly ever has any water in it. Guy took the truck home in a rain strom and came back the next day for the combine, a JD as I remember, only the top of the cab was showing.
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Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2014 at 8:32am
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GLAD YOU ARE GETTING RAIN OUT THERE One year I did a retention pond for local , worked on it for about 30 hours building a berm and digging out lower settling area. About 25' total depth, to top of berm. Told guy helping me to be sure to move machine to high ground every night - well one night it rained enough to fill area - and - machine was setting high and dry . pays to be forward looking. About 8 miles from here is a gavel pit for lime-rock , elevation of about 50' below surrounding land, kind of low area of that section. Same rain storm - that pit filled flooding 2 crushers, several conveyors, 4 wheel loaders, 2 generators, 8 tractor - end dump units, 4 tandem dumps, 3 dozers, 1 fuel truck . So drainage from over 640 acres all in the pit. Divers had to be hired to stop fuel leaking into water, and pumps worked long time cleaning that mess up. ------------- Faith isn't a jump in the dark. It is a walk in the light. Faith is not guessing; it is knowing something. "Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." |