What have done towards your prep?

[BeardyMan]

(18 October 2015, 19:05)Straight Shooter Wrote: Well update......digging away found Y branch in the pipe..great i thought ...disc cut it ....turned into a trickle ....then water pissed out about four foot to the left ...up about four foot...WTF .... i dig down ....another pipe....i follow that down....another Y branch going into the same pipe i just cut but lower down....i dig down and insert the plastic 45 gal drum for the sump and drop the bugger in..i now have to insert land drain pipes ...dig up the lower driveway ...cut through 8 " concrete and lay the underground land drain pipe through to the lower bank....avoiding the mains water supply pipe and the armoured cable supplying the top garage....gets even better ....tipped some die down the IC to double check ....WTF...dye comes pissing out by steps HELLO i thought......i track the digger back up.... over the nice landscaping that i had finished.... stacked up 140 concrete blocks so i could track down to the patio...got down okay ...slabs up and started digging the 18ft run....WTF...found another IC that had been covered over before my time....fault no 1 ....then the new pipe that was put in by a builder in the 80s ....joined to salt glazed pipe with some rope and cement...fault no 2....i rip the lot out back to the main IC....over to WICKS pipe and fittings and do what should have been done in the first place .....back filled the trench......as for running a alternator....forget it ....i can pee faster.....as for well.....watering the poly tunnel only i,m afraid.

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I still have the other well for drinking water higher up about 40 ft so not contaminated .

Nice relaxing weekend then buddy?

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(18 October 2015, 19:05)Straight Shooter Wrote: Well update......digging away found Y branch in the pipe..great i thought ...disc cut it ....turned into a trickle ....then water pissed out about four foot to the left ...up about four foot...WTF .... i dig down ....another pipe....i follow that down....another Y branch going into the same pipe i just cut but lower down....i dig down and insert the plastic 45 gal drum for the sump and drop the bugger in..i now have to insert land drain pipes ...dig up the lower driveway ...cut through 8 " concrete and lay the underground land drain pipe through to the lower bank....avoiding the mains water supply pipe and the armoured cable supplying the top garage....gets even better ....tipped some die down the IC to double check ....WTF...dye comes pissing out by steps HELLO i thought......i track the digger back up.... over the nice landscaping that i had finished.... stacked up 140 concrete blocks so i could track down to the patio...got down okay ...slabs up and started digging the 18ft run....WTF...found another IC that had been covered over before my time....fault no 1 ....then the new pipe that was put in by a builder in the 80s ....joined to salt glazed pipe with some rope and cement...fault no 2....i rip the lot out back to the main IC....over to WICKS pipe and fittings and do what should have been done in the first place .....back filled the trench......as for running a alternator....forget it ....i can pee faster.....as for well.....watering the poly tunnel only i,m afraid.

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I still have the other well for drinking water higher up about 40 ft so not contaminated .

Nice relaxing weekend then buddy?