Thanks to Mr. Grant McCaleb I have a new project. He is such a good influence! This Bike really needs some work... On friday I put the carbs back on (they were unattached, and banged up) and cut off some stuff to simplify the look, changed the mag wheels to spokes.. give me a few weeks and hopefully it will be up and running.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
New Project - Bobber
Thanks to Mr. Grant McCaleb I have a new project. He is such a good influence! This Bike really needs some work... On friday I put the carbs back on (they were unattached, and banged up) and cut off some stuff to simplify the look, changed the mag wheels to spokes.. give me a few weeks and hopefully it will be up and running.
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
Kelly D.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Siblings

In all our glory - Together we are the equivalent of a 154 year old athletic she-man! with 11 kids, 4 houses, 9 cars, plus 1 dog. I love my siblings.
- Shara - Was laughing too hard to do anything but jump.
- keri - Wonderwomen and will probably save an entire 3rd world country.
- Dan - How does he keep his shirt tucked in? amazing.
- Jeromy - Gap Model
- Shane - Just spilt an invisable tight rope and is impacting... painfully
Nielson Ponds
Here is one of my projects. Its a 200 acre foot p0nd.. when I say pond I mean small lake. Easily big enough for multiple boats and water skiers. Its been a fun one for me. (It is empty in these pictures.) It has 2 embankments that combined are a little under 1200 feet long.
I always wonder what people really do for work. I design dams and pipelines, and any water structures, review canal systems to make sure they work, design culverts and such. I do studies on stream and river capacities. I design Fish ladders, spillways, diversions, weirs, flumes.. and things like that. This happens to be the same thing my dad does.. but add more soils and mining...



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I always wonder what people really do for work. I design dams and pipelines, and any water structures, review canal systems to make sure they work, design culverts and such. I do studies on stream and river capacities. I design Fish ladders, spillways, diversions, weirs, flumes.. and things like that. This happens to be the same thing my dad does.. but add more soils and mining...
- 27 feet of head
- 3:1 upstream
- 2:1 downstream
- Filtered toe drain w/ 8 inch slotted ADS separated in to left and right
- its a homogeneous clay compacted at 95% Standard proctor
- the clays optimum moisture is around 18% It was hard to keep it that wet
- riprap D50 = 6 inch (I submitted a memo to Dam safety with wave analysis to get it that small and saved $40,000)
- 10' bottom width spillway 3 to 1 side slopes 3 feet deep with a 3 foot concrete cutoff ripraped for 50'. Max Q = about 264 cfs
- 15 inch outlet conduit - which fills and empties the reservoir from another control reservoir that I'm redoing. with a sand collar and a 4 inch drain pipe seperate from the 2 toe drains
- its off stream and has essentailly no water shed.
- around 23,000 CY to build. (it was an enlargement of a smaller dam not meeting any dam saftey requirments.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
Yamaha xt 500 - I think.

BIG NEWS - I got another motorcycle for FREE! It pays to do Engineering Design work for ranchers! I'm building this fellow 2 dams. I was at his ranch the other day and he gave me this Motorcycle. I'm not sure if its a 1978 or 79 or 80.. I think its a 79 and I think its a 500cc.
So I have a new project! This bike is going to shine! first major overhauls;
- clean the collaborator (there's only 1!) my cb 550 had 4 stinking carbs
- the handle bars need to go
- the seat will be recovered
- new plastic up front
- paint
- new break light
- fork boots
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Rockets

We had an Amazing Family Reunion where the whole family minus a few hardy folks got horribly sick. We managed however to play way to much 'Ticket to Ride' and Shoot a 2 liter bottle 150 feet in the air. Maybe higher, we were afraid of going over 85 psi on the bottle, I didn't want to pick plastic shrapnel out of my face. Anyway there was all sorts of other things we did, guns, 4 wheelers, swimming, shopping for watches.Observations:
- I am getting to a place where a highlight of vacations and reunions are definitely the kids.
- It seems that playing with cousin is about as fun as life gets. I always look forward to time with cousins. I wonder why this is.
- As I watch the young kids play I realize how old I am, and how old I must seem to them.
- Hunger Games is a good book.
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