SNOW DAY!!!

[Bionic]

1 hour ago, Rusty said:

Same here, we’re on the Orange County/ NJ border.   

Local guy!

[dbHunterNY]

late tracking update. went from handful of inches to nothing. good luck at the southern border of NY.

[Robhuntandfish]

26 minutes ago, grampy said:

Do you use a shovel...............  snowblower or plow???? I'm guessing just the shovel?

he still uses the axe. 

[2BuckBizCT]

9” ish here in CT. Heavy & wet. 40° and sunny now 

[Bionic]

17 minutes ago, Rusty said:

Have you ever had the fish rueben at Pennings?  It's life changing!  

Negative, must not be that local afterall lol.

[Bucksnbows]

3 minutes ago, Rusty said:

Pennings Farm Market, Warwick.  They have a Cidery, Beer Garden, Restaurant, Pick Your Own Orchard, and farm stand.   The food and cider are delicious!

https://www.penningsfarmmarket.com/

 

Do you remember the brown Cadillac parked out front for many years?  That belonged to my wife’s long gone grandmother who lived in Warwick. 

[corydd7]

11 minutes ago, Rusty said:

Pennings Farm Market, Warwick.  They have a Cidery, Beer Garden, Restaurant, Pick Your Own Orchard, and farm stand.   The food and cider are delicious!

https://www.penningsfarmmarket.com/

 

I'll try the fish Reuben next time we go. Warwick has a good farmers market Sunday's during summer.

Grappa's oyster with tuna and caviar are one of my favorite treats. Warwick is a nice little town. My wife is a principal in Florida right next door, so we head that way alot.

[Bucksnbows]

1 hour ago, Rusty said:

 

We’re doing 2 miles of Waywayanda Creek in a couple of years including about 1/2 mile in Warwick.  The bulk of the project is in Vernon, NJ, but I know where I’m going to eat often while on that job….

[Bionic]

26 minutes ago, Bucksnbows said:

We’re doing 2 miles of Waywayanda Creek in a couple of years including about 1/2 mile in Warwick.  The bulk of the project is in Vernon, NJ, but I know where I’m going to eat often while on that job….

Random question if you don’t mind me asking? On the excavators that run in the stream…. Are you required to run some kind of containment system in case of a hydraulic line failure, or do you inspect the lines that flex daily, and replace as needed to prevent a rupture? Just curious because I run machines from time to time at work, and it’s just something that always had sparked my curiosity since your machines are in waterways.  

[Bucksnbows]

3 hours ago, Bionic said:

Random question if you don’t mind me asking? On the excavators that run in the stream…. Are you required to run some kind of containment system in case of a hydraulic line failure, or do you inspect the lines that flex daily, and replace as needed to prevent a rupture? Just curious because I run machines from time to time at work, and it’s just something that always had sparked my curiosity since your machines are in waterways.  

We only rent newer CAT excavators and we have them steam cleaned. Then we inspect them upon delivery. I’ve only ever sent one back. We did have one small leak a bunch of years ago. My operator saw it immediately and turned and came straight out. We run a Pig-a-log boom at the bottom of our job sites that sopped up whatever was lost and replaced the hose.  But it’s not a big concern. Even if we were to lose a gallon or more of fluid, the average rainstorm puts hundreds of times more than that into the river just off of nearby parking lots and driveways. We obviously aim not to have any leaks whatsoever, but the reality is, we are working in large rivers and cannot destroy them with a small hydraulic leak.  And daily inspections while lubricating the machine and proper warmup ensures we don’t have issues. Plus we have a boom to catch any petroleum products. 

[Bionic]

8 hours ago, Bucksnbows said:

We only rent newer CAT excavators and we have them steam cleaned. Then we inspect them upon delivery. I’ve only ever sent one back. We did have one small leak a bunch of years ago. My operator saw it immediately and turned and came straight out. We run a Pig-a-log boom at the bottom of our job sites that sopped up whatever was lost and replaced the hose.  But it’s not a big concern. Even if we were to lose a gallon or more of fluid, the average rainstorm puts hundreds of times more than that into the river just off of nearby parking lots and driveways. We obviously aim not to have any leaks whatsoever, but the reality is, we are working in large rivers and cannot destroy them with a small hydraulic leak.  And daily inspections while lubricating the machine and proper warmup ensures we don’t have issues. Plus we have a boom to catch any petroleum products. 

Thanks for taking the time to explain that, it all makes sense.  I don’t find it concerning, but assumed the state(s) would create some type of hassle along the way due to the waterways involved.  
 

 

Edited February 14 by Bionic

[Bionic]

@crappyice in typical forum fashion, we go from discussing Snow days, to fish sandwiches, to hydraulic line discussions all in one thread.  How we doing? lol 

[Robhuntandfish]

I propose that in 10 years everyone should be doing online learning and @crappyice can be the only teacher in SENY.  

[Moho81]

16 hours ago, Rusty said:

 

Never heard of this. Is it worth a 5.5 hour one way drive? LOL 

[Bucksnbows]

2 hours ago, Bionic said:

Thanks for taking the time to explain that, it all makes sense.  I don’t find it concerning, but assumed the state(s) would create some type of hassle along the way due to the waterways involved.  
 

 

They find all sorts of ways to torture us, especially when we are new to a given state and they don’t know us yet. There are very, very few design and build companies out there and most states don’t know much about our work. But that changes quickly and many of those initially reluctant red tape pushers become our biggest supporters in quick time. We just went through that in CT where now they call us with questions about other projects. You have to build trust before you can run heavy equipment in river channels to restore them. Bank restoration is easier because we typically do that work from the banks and not in stream. My firm typically does both at once, bank and in stream habitat restoration.