Cleaning upmy buddy Travis’s lot with the mini excavator.
More and more slash piles...
Travis enjoying some time in the saddle
Mt. Scott in Crater Lake National Park
The well was all done. Next will be building a pumphouse with all the pvc lines and valves. Get power pulled from power pole at street and install a meter and breaker panel at the pumphouse. Tree I limbed is behind the well to the right.
Today while making breaking decided a pine tree in the middle of the lot needed to be limbed up. Being a (little) OCD I grab the Stihl chainsaw and start climbing.
Distance between my lot to my buddy Travis’s lot.
The 7/16” galvanized rod passing through the pitless adapter
Stainless steel tee with 1” rubber bleedback to drain water from hand pump stand to prevent it from freezing. When the hand pumps stops pumping the water drains back down the well.
Getting measurements for how much pipe to cut...
After testing well, pulled the submersible pump. Dug home with trackhoe and cut in pitless adapter holes for submersible and hand pump.
My dog Reload hard at work
Looking down the well with both pitless adapters installed.
Reinstalling the submersible pump with my daughter Harlee at the...
Shock chlorinated the well before I left the property Friday night to allow the chlorine to sanitize the well til Saturday morning. Returned and pumped the chlorine out and also did a flow test.
Chlorine was still present.
Flow meter on wellhead with pressure gauge.
15 gpm at 70 psi.
Opened...
Main goal of trip is get my well going. My well 6” steel casing that’s 60’ deep. It has a 4” PVC liner inside with a fine 10 slot screen at the bottom to keep debris like gravel/ pumice out of the pump. It’s also set too high and need to cut it off so it’s deeper in the well.
Set up on the...
Made it to the Crater Lake properties yesterday.
My buddy Travis at his lot.
Just about 800-1000’ down the road are my lots
Travis came down on his dirtbike
Got a fire going and camp setup
Headed to the property Friday thru the weekend. Getting the well going. I think after that camping will be ready except really want to get my septic system installed.
Thought I’d let the club and others know that I closed on the lot with the well yesterday and also bought 2 lots to the east of mine so I now have just over 4 lots at just over an acre each. They are in a rectangle and all connected so I’ll be installing a well pump and a manual hand pump soon...
I’ve been patiently waiting to hear back on my offer to buy lot to the north with well. They emailed back this evening and agreed to sell the one acre with well for $11,000.
Spent 3 days and went to my Crater Lake Property to clear land and burn slash, fill in the septic test holes and have some fun on the mini excavator.
My buddy Travis at his lot
The neighbor put up a new fence along our property line.
Filling in the septic test holes we dug back in...
Moving from one project to the next. My 60 build was fun but grew old. I’m so much more excited about building and construction. I have called the county about getting plans to build. In order to build, a septic site evaluation must be done. Headed down to the Crater Lake property in October...
Snowball❄️ has been a lot of fun lately. Enjoyed Labor Day fishing up the Columbia below Bonneville Dam. The weather was perfect.
Beacon Rock from our friends place in Dodson
The Hojack family
My brothers girl Nicole lands a 30 pounder
And in the middle of it all, a Snowball❄️ rolls through it.
In other news I acquired an acre lot near Crater Lake with a well. I think it’s time to meet some of you. I was hoping to start an annual get together down there. Plan some wheeling and family camp time.
Here’s the lot I bought. All lots are an acre and buildable. Power is at the road. Mine...
Greetings Cacade Cruisers.
“A Snowball❄️ rolls through it” is a title I gave because of the movie “A river runs through it.”
Project Snowball❄️ is my 85 FJ60 Landcruiser named during my SOA build with local and member @boots4. I’ve been a Toyota guy. I grew up in High School with an 85 Toyota...