Allis Chalmers Playground underwater

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   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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AC Mel Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Access Joined: 23 Jan 2010 Location: N.Ca. Points: 1099	Post Options Post Reply Quote AC Mel Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Allis Chalmers Playground underwater 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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DougG Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 20 Sep 2009 Location: Mo Points: 7952	Post Options Post Reply Quote DougG Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 Feb 2014 at 4:02pm
	Wow , glad you got some rain , the ole AC,s done a fine job

CTuckerNWIL Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Location: NW Illinois Points: 22810	Post Options Post Reply Quote CTuckerNWIL Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply 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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JohnCO Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Location: Niwot Colo Points: 8992	Post Options Post Reply Quote JohnCO Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 Feb 2014 at 8:02pm
	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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Coke-in-MN Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Access Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Location: Afton MN Points: 41229	Post Options Post Reply Quote Coke-in-MN Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 Feb 2014 at 8:32am
	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.
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