Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Shipping Container Drop

Low of 42 - High of 100 today. Had one of those perfect - all goes according to plan - Field Lab days! Got an early morning call that my shipping container was on the way. Prepped the area for my container delivery then went for a late breakfast at the Grub Shack. Came back home and entertained some longhorns for a bit. Spotted my container making its way down my dusty road at 12:30. The off-load went smooth as silk....loud/violent silk that is. Beatrice was there to oversee the operation. The Drop on YouTube... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhojsgS9h2Y
Basked in the glory of the arrival of my newest shipping container for a bit then headed over to Chuck's to pick up some rigging to tweak the container position. Took about 3 hours to tug the 5000+ load into alignment and jack it up onto blocks to level it out. Finished up and decided I was due for a shower. The water temp was a bit on the high side so I drained off 5 gallons at HOT water into a bucket and added 5 gallons of cold water. The shower was just right at 108 degrees.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi John,

My high was 98. But we had a cool breeze most of the day so it was quiet nice. My low was 48.

Interesting temperature changes for only about 21 miles apart.

GiniV

Anonymous said...

Out of curiosity (and probably my over-need for symmetry), why didn't you place the new container in line with the other two?

Jon H said...

While symmetry wasn't my first concern I did wonder why not have the doors of the two rows of containers facing each other. Maybe adding a half twist to that off load woulda been tough.

Florian said...

That container delivery video was great!

MsBelinda said...

None of my business...but with all that space you have out there why are you placing the containers so close together?