A Huge Dump (pics)

[hoskm01]

Cleaning out the phone full of pics

3" Mainline repair. Failed seal on bell end, pipe didnt push apart, but a trough in the glue/seal was cut from years of weakness. Muddy clay schitt of a mess.

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A park full of falcons on a fine late-summer day.
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An occasional companion at work!
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My trip to Maryland and back across I-70. Some interesting country, interesting people, lots of time to contemplate life! Got back in terrible ice conditions at the Colorado border.

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Beer and sharp objects on a fine fall day after our first snow, about 3 weeks ago.
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An HOA I got to before the big snowstorm!
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A shot off the deck in the middle of the recent storm.
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One of our snow and ice management setups!
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Next to last blowout- today! This is how its done! Double POC for blowouts, compressor running wide-open at 375 CFM, 75 PSI. One of Pete's finest pigtails on the RB MC, 4 zones at a time. This thing saved me HOURS of work today on the small and individual parks around this HOA. 8 zones each x 5 systems, I do 4 at a time with the remote. In, blown and gone again in less than 10 minutes. The double connection is to a 3" main, looped with 5 POC's to city water. about 10 miles collectively of mainline. 6 controllers and about 200 zones- 3 Hours done and done.
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[Mike Leary]

Nice work and nice pic/shoe shots, Matt.

[FIMCO-MEISTER]

You the man. I owe you and Dana a beer for the PR campaign. Zman and Mike as well if I ever cross paths with them. And of course John...hope I'm not forgetting anybody. Of course ARGOS, BSME, Waterlogged for the box for my new RB controller which I'm really digging. And a certain RB rep? we'll never know who sent me the RB ET controller.

I'm truly blessed this Halloween.

[AI Inc]

How do ya like that Atlas Capco? Place I used to rent from had nothing but. Nice machines.

[hoskm01]

How do ya like that Atlas Capco? Place I used to rent from had nothing but. Nice machines.
Holy Geeze! That thing is as smooth as Ive ever seen/heard. Had it maxed out today and seemed like it was hardly on! John Deere diesel under the hood. Wouldnt have been my first guess, but the thing runs absolutely flawlessly.

[FIMCO-MEISTER]

Matt is Da Man Saw some pretty amazing pump stuff with him yesterday. Appreciate the education. Heading out to Vegas. Hopefully I'll have some good stories and knowledge to share when I get back.

[AI Inc]

Taka a cab over to Chinatown for a message.

[DanaMac]

Heading out to Vegas. Hopefully I'll have some good stories and knowledge to share when I get back.

DON"T go to Glitter Gulch, or as I called it, Gutter Gulch. It's of course a topless bar. My first trip to Vegas we stopped in. They had a dancer that had one deformed arm that had 3 fingers. Not sexy when she's rubbing the b*****s with them. Completely reminded me of the mutants in the movie "Total Recall"

[Wet_Boots]

There's something about a chick with three bazungas......

[hoskm01]

There's something about a chick with three bazungas......
Something disturbing that turns my stomach

[Wet_Boots]

Three's a nice round number. One for each hand, and one to nibble on. Three flavors - vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry.

[CHRIS MELROSE]

I use to do sprinkler work about 15 years ago and that first picture brought back bad memories. I use to have to dig them size holes by hand!

[ARGOS]

Photos from work and my trip to NYC:

Photo #1: Finishing up the rebar on the pedestal for a bread oven. 6" concrete, 6" sand, and I am doing another 3" concrete, then the oven freshly imported from Italy.
Photo #2: Gardener picking weeds in Battery Park. Pretty crazy. Completely surrounded by wall street chaos.
Photo #3: Why I don't live in NYC.
Photo #4: My son showing me how to use his rocket in central park while I nap.
Photo #5: Drainage for a new landscape. The whole area was cut out twenty years ago leaving only decomposed granite. We installed over 600' of 6-8" reinforced pipe (you can also see flex). The uprights are where the driveway will sheet drain into the main drains.

[ARGOS]

More Photos:
1) My oldest son on the "Lava Trail". A downhill ride that is hell bent. I crash every time. I let him go first and I pick up the pieces, just like it is going to be on the Rockies Rec trip.
2) We still have a small mill in town. I order our trellis and deck to spec. It is cut dimensionally and I order cedar. Very cool...just have your pocket book ready.
3) Building a 200' long wall out of native stone. It came out beautiful. The mason is on crew and does a great job with stone work.
4) Installing pipe for a water feature. Most of the area in photo is now a patio.
5) Putting in a new landscape. Went all natives, small walk, and native rocks. LA did a good job on this area. Notice the skid steer is only 36" wide. Works great on residential.

[ARGOS]

Photo batch #3:
1) An over tight nipple cracked a 90. I like the reflection of the charming guy making repair. Another repair on the bank that had the low ball install. I have been following the installer around now handing out my card. Diplomatically of course.
2) A notorious controller install. 3 zones went up and 3 zones went down. Notice pigtail to be installed. I hate speaker connectors.
3) At ARGOS we like to ditch our trucks as often as possible.
4) Inside pot install. Center is schedule 80 coming off lateral. Two sides are schedule 80 nipples mounted through the concrete footing into a drain line. So the two side nipples serve as anchors and drains simultaneously.
5) The pot on the outside. The LA had called for a wrought iron hook attached to the garage to hold the pots. I didn't want to see hooks. There were four pots on the backside of the house. Each pot was hand made and the owner wanted them to be the same height and the siding behind the pots was ship lap. Each pot footing had to be individually poured compensating for different pot heights.

[ARGOS]

Tipped over skid steer in my own driveway. Backed up over one of my kids bike jumps.

[ARGOS]

Photo dump 3:

1) Part one of three patio pours. Crazy shapes with areas left open for pebble mosaics. The blue shed is going to be the outdoor bath.
2) Finished landscape outside "The Pool House". Nice gas regulator. Our controller line is not that pretty coming down the wall next to it. I only had one place to run it. It came through the house attic, through the garage attic, under the sidewalk, through two utility rooms, behind a heater duct, and out the wall. I like keeping the wire out of sight, but had to have the conduit down the wall.
3) Finished pots.
4) Finished area behind pool house with native rocks and pots. Had to dig 1000' to get around pool house with valve wire. The pots now have birds nest spruce in them.
5) Watering oleanders with the old 1/8" holes in 1" pvc trick.

[ARGOS]

Last dump:
1) The home town.
2) One of the pots finished. Zen city. Not usually my flavor, but it really was the right install for this vacation home.
3) Another angle of pot.
4) What do you think of the grass?
5) Bye bye lawn hello natives.

[irritation]

Wow, the old guy with the blonde wig working around the rocks looks like Italy.

[FIMCO-MEISTER]

I've got some comments but I've got to run. You'll get a bunch from me manana

[Mike Leary]

Nice shot shoe; totally unimaginative landscape design.

[ARGOS]

Nice shot shoe; totally unimaginative landscape design.

It actually serves the purpose. The home is extremely "clean" and straight forward. It is a vacation home and minimal maintanence was the priority. I have worked with this designer before and he has his formula. The design is definitely cookie cutter, but I did like some of the species selected such as the chocolate bamboo, mugo pine, and bird nest spruce. Again typically not my favorites, but appropriate in this application. The install we are doing now with the pizza oven is actually really cool and unique. The LA did a great job. I will post pics when we start installing plants.

I wish I took pics of the pipe and wire. It was beautiful.

[hoskm01]

Nice work, ARGOS. Thanks for the pics

[FIMCO-MEISTER]

Nice shot shoe; totally unimaginative landscape design.

The plants grow Mike ya know...Frankly I'll take that than these overplanted instant landscapes that have to be pruned out in two years. Each plant can be manicured and celebrated and in time some nice additions can be made.

Three things in good taste has sort of been my philosophy.

[FIMCO-MEISTER]

2) A notorious controller install. 3 zones went up and 3 zones went down. Notice pigtail to be installed. I hate speaker connectors.

Nice clean controller install Argos. Were you able to get that pigtail inside the controller behind the panel? Another pain and over thought part of that controller is losing the power when the door opens. I think..... no.....I know the RB ET controller will be much more pigtail friendly.

[DanaMac]

Three things in good taste has sort of been my philosophy.

Beer, brisket, and broads? :)

[FIMCO-MEISTER]

In that order.

[Wet_Boots]

Bourbon, Baseball, and Bazungas.

[ARGOS]

I thought it was "weed, whites, and wine"?

[ARGOS]

Nice clean controller install Argos. Were you able to get that pigtail inside the controller behind the panel?

The pigtail fit easily behind the door, but I installed it differently this time. I drilled a 3/8" (I think it was 3/8) hole in the bottom of the controller and used a rubber gromet over the pigtail line and pulled the pigtail until the connector stopped at the bottom of the controller and secured the pigtail inside the controller. I don't need any slack because I drape the remote receiver over the controller. When I go to drain the system out in a week or two I will take a picture. Basically the connector is pulled tight against the bottom of the controller facing down.

The picture is not the finished install. I was spacing when I did the install and should have had a 2" sweep coming off the controller. I had to switch that, but you would never know when all was said and done.

[Mike Leary]

I thought it was "weed, whites, and wine"?

What a great song! :clapping::drinkup:

[Kiril]

4) What do you think of the grass?

Looks a little too perfect to be grass. If it is not astroturf ... get rid of it! ;) That tree is too close to the house though.

[ARGOS]

Looks a little too perfect to be grass. If it is not astroturf ... get rid of it! ;) That tree is too close to the house though.

It is astroturf.

The trees next to the house are a problem. They are desperate for sun.

[Kiril]

The trees next to the house are a problem. They are desperate for sun.

Yea, it is leaning pretty bad. Looks like possibly an ornamental plum?

I got a question for ya. Ever done any permeable concrete installs?

[Mike Leary]

Ever done any permeable concrete installs?

It's code up north now; pretty cool. There is a German product that is plastic and makes the install easier, sorry I can't remember the name.

[ARGOS]

Is that Pervious concrete? Never heard of it. With an initial glance it looks interesting...something this customer would have tried. I wonder about the subgrade and subbase prep? How do you move the water if you have little perc?

[Mike Leary]

Maybe I've got the wrong stuff; these are interlocking conc and plastic bricks that are layed on a sand base and turf is planted in between. They are code for most driveways and parking areas.

[Kiril]

Is that Pervious concrete?

Yes, that is one type.

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With an initial glance it looks interesting...something this customer would have tried.

That is why I asked. I don't know anyone in this area that does it and I want to put some in at my house.

I wonder about the subgrade and subbase prep?

It is complicated, especially if you have a tight soil.

http://www.perviouspavement.org/hydrological%20design.htm

How do you move the water if you have little perc?

You can move the water using drain lines to a dry well or something similar.

[Kiril]

Maybe I've got the wrong stuff; these are interlocking conc and plastic bricks that are layed on a sand base and turf is planted in between. They are code for most driveways and parking areas.

That sounds like pavers, not this stuff.

[ARGOS]

It is complicated, especially if you have a tight soil.


Like 90% of the jobs I do on decomposed granite. Great building base, lousy perc.

Thanks for the links I will check them out tonight. There is a new guy in our area that is mixing small concrete batches on site. One would have to go that route.

[Mike Leary]

Very nice, Kiril. Have you used the product?

[Kiril]

Very nice, Kiril. Have you used the product?

Nope, I want to though. Can't find anyone in the area that installs it. Admittedly I haven't looked all that hard either, but I have asked around.

I have been trying to get as many LEED credits as possible during my house reconstruction, and this would add a few. Plus I just like and support the idea of on site storm water management.

[WalkGood]

It is astroturf.


In all seriousness ..... does anyone with fake grass also use fake plants/flowers outside?

[Mike Leary]

In all seriousness ..... does anyone with fake grass also use fake plants/flowers outside?

Cemeteries?

[Tom Tom]

I have been trying to get as many LEED credits as possible during my house reconstruction, and this would add a few. Plus I just like and support the idea of on site storm water management.


Are you Leeds certified, or do you have to hire contractors that are Leeds certified to get the credits?

[FIMCO-MEISTER]

Las Vegas is covered with fake grass. The Wynn Resorts, McDonalds, lots of places. I saw no sprayheads all bubblers or drip.

[Kiril]

Are you Leeds certified, or do you have to hire contractors that are Leeds certified to get the credits?

You hire a LEED provider to certify your project.

[Tom Tom]

You hire a LEED provider to certify your project.


People should have the ability to discern someone who is talking out of their ass from those who are not. Certification does not necessarily mean the person knows (and more importantly understands) what they are talking about, only that they jumped through the hoops .... much like licensing.





Why not provide a set of guidelines to follow? Most any monkey can follow a checklist.




Why can't you just hire a non Leeds certified contractor/builder that will follow the
Leeds protocol checklist?

[Kiril]

Why can't you just hire a non Leeds certified contractor/builder that will follow the
Leeds protocol checklist?

That is exactly what I did, except I used the LEED for commercial buildings since the LEED for residential buildings was not available when I started reconstruction.

To my knowledge LEED providers are essentially inspectors, nothing more.