Sunday, January 16, 2011

I do believe there is money to be made in green jobs

I get to work, I am asked if I could take a head to Tucson and then to Globe. While I am at it, I can drive to Vernon and get my "up north fix". Load her up she is ready to fly. I finish up in Tucson and report, only to find out I need to return to the shop before I head out. Dang I so wanted to take the road from Tucson to Globe. Kinda sad, when I get a call from Cody that the generator won't start. We are low on water at Jennys. The windmill has been down and then no wind. But it is fixed, so now just pump it with the generator.
I call Tom and he said I could take one from home since I was going by there now. It is working out.
I drop off what I picked up in Tucson and get the generator. Run up to Superior for a drop off then to Globe for another drop off. Now I am work free. Got to Vernon late, pumping will wait one more day.
Early morning start. I still have to unload this heavy monster by myself. I got some long boards to wheel it down. Tie the generator in so I can lower it down slowly. The boards keep falling down. Give Tom a call and he says take your tail gate off so it will be a better angle. Wow it works. It is unloaded and ready to start. I get it in place and I can't get it to start. Poop. I call Tom and tell him I am going to go to Vernon and get me some help.
An hour later I am still fighting to get my tail gate back on. Even called Tom who calmed me down. That did it. I did it.
Went to find John to help me. There he is on the ranch road. Catch up to him and find out he is helping some others but he will help me soon as he is done there. It is six pm and both of us rather wait until the next morning.
He can't get it either. He helps me load both generators and off I go to Globe where Tom and Jesse are at a Park and Swap. The dang things fires right up. The other one is locked up. They decided the oil was to cold in the first one and it locked it up. The other just didn't want to start in the cold and I should of had starting fluid. Another thing not to leave town with out. My ranching list is getting longer.
On Sunday Tom and I do a up and back trip to get the mill some water. Ha, the winds have started and we have recovered half of what we needed in about 24 hours. Yeah, double yeah.
Drive back to the ranch house to put things away and look what we found.

The ranch mill is out of order now. We found the drinker in the bull pasture to be almost out, but the drinker in the horse pasture is great. One more look and the float to the bull pasture is frozen. Loosen it up and got water. Decide to run the generator at the ranch to get more water. The pump kicks in and the water is running out. Wow besides the sucker rod being broken the fittings have come apart also.

Tom was able to get the fittings back together and now we were pumping water into the tank and not on the ground any longer. Thank goodness Tom came with me.
Two wind mills down in a month. Now that is a paying green job.