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wesleywillis posted:Tell them to call a professional. I think it’s optimistic to think they’d get that far, my prediction is that they’d find an empty area that “seems clear”, get a couple of feet deep, then snarl up a bunch of buried utilities like someone getting a forkful of spaghetti
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https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/cmmapw/this_bathroom/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x I'm not entirely sure what's going on here but it isn't good.
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Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIgMeyW4TEM
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The Chairman posted:I think it’s optimistic to think they’d get that far, my prediction is that they’d find an empty area that “seems clear”, get a couple of feet deep, then snarl up a bunch of buried utilities like someone getting a forkful of spaghetti Sounds like they are in the middle of nowhere doing (most) everything themselves, so they probably know where the utilities are since they dug the trenches themselves.
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Javid posted:My homestead friends are tossing around the idea of renting well-drilling equipment and trying to DIY it, due to there literally not being a company that will drill a well in the area they live. How badly can this go? This is something that can contaminate the groundwater for a large area around them depending on what it looks like/how deep they are drilling. It's a public health issue and they should not be doing it. Live somewhere with a high water table and need to drill some shallow irrigation wells? Fine. Drilling a proper potable water well? No, no, no, no, no.
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Platystemon posted:It must have been an artesian hell. Nice.
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I thought the usual "homestead in the middle of nowhere" solution was to just get a couple of holding tanks and have your potable water trucked in?Platystemon posted:It must have been an artesian hell.
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They need to find out what permits are required in their area but really they just need to offer more money to a well drilling company.
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As I understand it, there's exactly one well drilling operation in the area, and the guy is booked solid for at least a year out. As a result of having a functionally infinite supply of business, he just refuses to take any jobs under a certain dollar amount, which is iirc something like 4 grand more than their (relatively shallow) well should reasonably cost. The next nearest well company just cold refuses to drive to their zipcode, sight unseen. Tldr "Just pay someone to do it" isn't an option, they tried. There's a bunch of properties off this same road in the same situation, so this isn't just one group of people being cheap, here.
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Motronic posted:This is something that can contaminate the groundwater for a large area around them depending on what it looks like/how deep they are drilling. It's a public health issue and they should not be doing it. Yeah, imagine if the water table was like hundreds of feet deep........... I'm in Ontario, and there is a loophole in the Ontario regulations that states a property owner can "construct" their own well. I have a well technician's license, and have installed hundreds of test wells. None for drinking water though, and even I wouldn't bother trying to drill a well for myself and I could probably use my company's equipment for a weekend or two for the cost of fuel.
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The next nearest driller won’t do the job for two additional Gs? Are they dealing with a cartel?
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Javid posted:As I understand it, there's exactly one well drilling operation in the area, and the guy is booked solid for at least a year out. As a result of having a functionally infinite supply of business, he just refuses to take any jobs under a certain dollar amount, which is iirc something like 4 grand more than their (relatively shallow) well should reasonably cost. The next nearest well company just cold refuses to drive to their zipcode, sight unseen. Tldr "Just pay someone to do it" isn't an option, they tried. Sounds like they can round everyone up and start calling companies around the state; if they have several people who all need wells, a company can come out and do the lot and make a load of cash on it. Unless there is some sort of restriction that prevents other companies boring this area or something. I realize this is a pain in the rear end, but it's important to realize that a DIY doesn't save them money in this situation - they'll probably just waste time and money loving it up, possibly incur liability for their mistakes, and then still have to pay one of these professionals to handle it at the end of the day.
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Just an rear end in a top hat with a monopoly.
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My dad had trouble getting a well because the other side of the highway was sinkhole city He had to keep expanding his search until someone was willing to actually look at a map and say yeah your side is in fact not sinkhole city
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Sometimes there's some regulatory capture at work as well. Like the area requires anyone doing drill work to have some special permits and license that's prohibitively expensive and is administered by the only drilling expert in the region, who just happens to be the dude with clear interests in maintaining his monopoly. I heard poo poo like this about a company that built docks and drove piles for docks. It was in a region governed by a trust, and the trust had all sorts of special certifications and other red tape, generally in the name of the environment and safety, regarding any sort of pile driving. The costs and hoops you'd need to jump through took so much time and money, any competing companies were essentially locked out of the market. The owner of the only pile driving barge just happened to be on the board of trustees that created these regulations.
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sounds to me like an opportunity to start a well-drilling company and make a ton of money
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Leperflesh posted:sounds to me like an opportunity to start a well-drilling company and make a ton of money Please give me a million dollars ty
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Perhaps OP/s friends live in an area with known, crazy artesian conditions and thats why the one guy in the area is hesitant. Having potentially thousands of gallons of water flowing out of the ground at a high rate can make anyone hesitate to drill somewhere, whether you've got the equipment to handle it or not. Let alone some guys that are all "yo lets dig a well today"! https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/untamed-torrent-of-well-water-threatens-multi-million-dollar-vancouver-homes
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Sounds like a free water park to me.
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We just need to get a bunch of E/N and BFC goons and drop them in a hole on the property, they'll dig out a well in no time.
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wesleywillis posted:Perhaps OP/s friends live in an area with known, crazy artesian conditions and thats why the one guy in the area is hesitant. Having potentially thousands of gallons of water flowing out of the ground at a high rate can make anyone hesitate to drill somewhere, whether you've got the equipment to handle it or not. Let alone some guys that are all "yo lets dig a well today"! This has to be some sort of gold standard for contractors bailing on their idiot mistakes: quote:According to Johnston, the driller “freaked out,” packed up his equipment and not only abandoned the site but also fled the country. Attempts to reach the company, which advertises it now operates in Italy, were unsuccessful.
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wesleywillis posted:Perhaps OP/s friends live in an area with known, crazy artesian conditions and thats why the one guy in the area is hesitant. Having potentially thousands of gallons of water flowing out of the ground at a high rate can make anyone hesitate to drill somewhere, whether you've got the equipment to handle it or not. Let alone some guys that are all "yo lets dig a well today"! The followup article is the City trying to collect $10M in mitigation costs
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Ashcans posted:This has to be some sort of gold standard for contractors bailing on their idiot mistakes:  also  A while back, I read about a construction team whose boss explained they were working near a buried fiber optic line that connected Europe with Africa, and that damaging it would cause a zillion dollar per minute Big loving Deal. Sure enough, a guy in an excavator managed to sever the line. When he realized it, he got out of the cab, walked off the site, was never seen again.
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I love the windoors designed so you can step out and break your leg/neck/arm falling on to concrete.
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OJ MIST 2 THE DICK posted:https://twitter.com/alejandroid/status/1159162678780338176?s=19 Where does player 2 sit?
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Facebook Aunt posted:Where does player 2 sit? 
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For twenty years that gif has wandered the bowels of the Internet, waiting for the question it was born to answer. This is a momentous day.
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High Lord Elbow posted:For twenty years that gif has wandered the bowels of the Internet, waiting for the question it was born to answer. This is a momentous day. you mean the bowls of the internet surely :V
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Beldantazar posted:you mean the bowls of the internet surely :V  
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Just notching out my rafters so I have enough room to grind my sword for the Forged In Fire competition.
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Javid posted:My homestead friends are tossing around the idea of renting well-drilling equipment and trying to DIY it, due to there literally not being a company that will drill a well in the area they live. How badly can this go? Bit late to this, but... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/city-of-vancouver-on-hook-for-10-million-cost-of-capping-massive-groundwater-leak-1.4997907 As long as your friends are prepared to skip the country when they cause the local government 10 million dollars worth of damage by accidentally tapping an artesian well, they should be fine. Edit: gently caress, beaten, well sorta. I don't think that other article mentions the cleanup bill. Lead out in cuffs fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Aug 10, 2019 |
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