Iowa Charity Cut -

[nstueve]

Also just for fun...

noch eine bitte

German for "one more please"

A little more educational material right...????

 

[nstueve]

Anyone who knows mojim... He always says he'll be at a gtg "if The Lord is willing and the creek don't rise"

My creek rose 8-10' last night and put a 15' wide by 12-16' deep hole between me and the road... S***!!!!! Can't get cars out to even go to work. :-(

 

[sam-tip]

Any worse and you will need a bridge not a culvert.

 

[Bill G]

Any worse and you will need a bridge not a culvert.

Those culverts look seriously undersized. Here we would put a railroad tank car or fertilizer tank in there.

 

[Time's Standing Stihl]

Think its time for a bigger tube nathan!

 

[nstueve]

Those culverts look seriously undersized. Here we would put a railroad tank car or fertilizer tank in there.

There was a 5' dia tube above those little ones.

 

[nstueve]

Any worse and you will need a bridge not a culvert.

Bridge = $$$$

I'll be lucky to afford a new tube if I need one.

 

[nstueve]

Anyone know who sells big concrete tubes in DSM?

 

[sam-tip]

Did you find the old one down stream yet?

 

[Oliver1655]

I take it this is your private drive.

Is this a freak occurrence or have you had problems with it washing out in the past?

 

[Mrs. Sam-Tip]

One month until the IA GTG/CC!!! Not long now!

 

[sam-tip]

I think Nathan has lived there 13 months now. We got maybe 4 to 5 inches of rain last night.

The creek did rise last night.

 

[nstueve]

Did you find the old one down stream yet?

Yes it's actually still in place. Water washed out under it and found out there is a 36-42" main still in place but sunken in. the water was covering it up in first pic this morning.
The upstream end has a large metal plate that attaches to it and holds 3 more 12" pipes above it for more overflow than the 36" can handle. Above that is the Missouri crossing.

 

[nstueve]

I take it this is your private drive.

Is this a freak occurrence or have you had problems with it washing out in the past?

Yes private drive. Arial of my property below. My driveway is long blue stem running out to road on right. House is in the lower left corner.

I think the 12" tubes got blocked and the 36" couldn't handle the 6" of rain we got. We are considering replacing 3x 12" tubes with 2x 24" tubes. Picking up the 36-42" tube to level it of course.

 

[nstueve]

I think Nathan has lived there 13 months now.

We moved in on 9/13/13... Friday the 13th.

 

[Mrs. Sam-Tip]

Wood delivery we made this afternoon. Thanks for your help in getting the Firewood Helper program going!

 

[sam-tip]

A very nice load of ash logs yesterday. Two more loads today. Should be nice logs to process for the charity cut.

 

[nstueve]

A little wider angle would show the big pile on the truck too... Jeeze doug... need a bigger trailer??? LOL!

 

[sam-tip]

This is what came off the truck. Both truck and trailer were full.

 

[stihlx8]

I see an elevator in the background, I assume that means you found one? Looks like a good one. Any equipment needs for the charity cut? Looks like its going to work for us.