I'm about to get back to it. I started a biz for Ebayers mostly hopefully it will end up a big geek group and half the gadgets like the remote cameras and a server I want to put down there. I've already got conduit run out into the yard so I can sit down there and film hurricanes lol

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My Back fused in six months instead of twelve a record says the doc.... I've always got something hurting but considering all the mishaps I've been in I'm lucky that's all it is. Sitting kills me but I just moved 3000 pounds of concrete 80 pounds at a time to fix a drainage problem along the lot lines between my neighbors and me. I've got 7000 square feet of roof and half the yard is concrete driveway so my wife can drive her cair everywhere including the pool and I intentionally made the drive self cleaning in heavy rains by channeling it down the middle but had a sharp turn that was jumping the birm so we added him a drain made a dam across the lot line and I made a bank to shoot the water to my two drains and in a real storm any over flow from gets sent down the center of the drive head out back away from the fence and the dams are about 8 inches higher than my drive. I even use the water to clean the dog pen then it settles in a small but wide retention pond where the grass grows really well lol.

A lot of the time I spent building the house itself didn't require my full concentration so I tend to mentally build two or three other things while I am actually working on a task. I've got a pretty swank design in mind for a "real" bunker with fake windows covering flat screens that I could tie into a computer system and program it using webcams from around the world to simulate living in different parts of the globe. Ever since I was a child I imagined someday having a house on the moon and to me without an atmosphere for radiation shielding the natural thing to do would be do build underground. I had thought of long "valleys" in line with the sun sealed with airlocks to grow many stories of plant life in and use that space to filter stale air. The living areas would be located on either side of these valleys so you could essentially have windows to let some of the filtered sunlight in and provide a view to mother nature. I have a tree farm near here with a huge hill facing west that I have always wanted to build a test habitat into. I was thinking remote controlled smart dozers could be sent to the moon ahead of the humans to begin construction of this, with a few of the valleys connecting the ones lined up with the sun perpendicular to each other and so generally in the dark which would make for a natural refrigeration system. If we could set up some high pressure pumps at the north or south poles of earth, where it is generally cold in the first place, you'd only need to loose 40 or 50 degrees to turn CO2 into a solid, then magsled them so they crash land in the dark valleys for stock piling, then use this CO2 to start the plant life cycle, and pull the O2 generated from the plants to supplement the atmosphere in the living quarters. I doubt there is enough gravity on the moon to really terraform it into having an actual atmosphere but the exposure to natural light and green living things would make life much more bearable than say spending your life sealed in a submarine and just having a few portals to look outside from. This is the short version of course but to get the CO2 to ride a magsled I was thinking it could be packaged into containers of steel that could be readily recycled into building material and with unmanned launches you could really push the Gees... I don't know for sure but it seems to me that Dry Ice would be much more efficiently produced in an area that is already naturally at a very low temp than nearer to the equator and there would be less likelihood of a catastrophe if a launch failed in a desolate spot than having it near a populated area.

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Simpson's Joke...

When I lived through the wreck and learned to walk and talk and such things again I told myself I'd have a good book if I could finish the house.

After we moved in I realized I was really really tired and that project got stuck on the back burner LOL.

I just finished up a modification to my sand pumping device and made a video but it takes me forever to edit the things.

It is basically a 13 foot long primable check valve that lets me pull a slurry of sand and water from the bottom of the test shaft and pump it out into the yard and is an incredible time saver considering originally everything went in and out a 3 by 4 foot opening.

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Here's a vid of the sand being pumped out during the prototype stage...

Here's the vid it's long and rambles as I tend to do...

It's more a matter of trying to supply it with 100 gallons of water a minute so I need a second large pump so I can use lake water.

If I had an electric pump that would be a good idea but I really need a high volume of water and costwise a second trash pump might get me more bang for the buck especially if I found a used one.

Hah!

I have removed pine tree stumps in a similar manner by digging a deep hole next to the it and washing the sand from the roots then digging and washing until I had plenty exposed stump then I'd saw it off 2 feet below the ground and fill the hole back up.

I could use a simple large drain line I was thinking to make sure the hole didn't over flow. I could jet a pipe horizontally under the house I was thinking so it came out in the back yard and would be a natural drain a couple feet lower thanthe bottom garage floor but I was thinking about your switch idea and I could get a largeelectricvalve and just bypass the flow into the yard when it got high enough then open a valve so it pours into the pit when the level drops.

My only thought on a second gas trash pump is I could get a 2 inch one pretty cheaply compared to an electric one that would pump the same volume of water but I'm big on scrounging up stuff so we'll see.

I made a shorter version of the vid maybe I'll make an instrctable around it...

Want a Job? LOL Those are good ideas. I've made temporary basins out of large tarps and a plastic drop cloth will make an instant wading pool for the kids if you happen to have a truck bed in the driveway.

Hey I am always looking for advice and the vids I know need serious practice the last one was the 12th attempt so I'm just starting the learning curve on editing and just have the basic windoz software and the sound is better with a real mic but I need something like a mixer to fade down machine noises and I need to get them down to a minute or two as you say in segments which is more likely to get linked to I imagine.

I'm just wingin it here LOL so any suggestions are much appreciated and I'll message you a different email address for me if you want.

I need to take a break from it so I'm gonna finish up the check valve and get the sand out of the bottom of the thing so I can see if I got the seal back around the pipes and if so pour a smooth floor then just watch it for a long while and mark exactly how high the water comes up the pipes.

I used the last video I made and hopefully gave a summary of what I had done so far in a new
Instructable but the yard is lookin pretty shabby and the wife is giving me some not so subtle hints that I need to get back to the odds and ends the house above still need LOL.

Then Spread Calm. It's contagious.

Excellent idea! That would save me installing seismograms....

I Put the compressors in after I had it dried in and have airlines run to each floor with a spot in a closet to plug into when I need an airtool, even in the attic. I'm very big on quiet.

One advantage of spending seven years building a house is you have plenty of time to daydream up new Ideas. I put a garden hose spicket in the upstairs guest suite bathroom supplied by a 3/4" line so I could put a retractable real hose on there and with 75 feet I can reach any part of the attic, the guest suite, and every room on the main floor so I'm pretty well prepared if there's ever a fire...