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#### *Last I left you...*
Last I left you I had just got done with a hot steamy bath and another edition of the Daily Dose published in which I mentioned  the chance that Wednesday would go well and I could be headed home early and make it back by a reasonable hour of the evening. 
#### *As you probably...*
As you probably could gather from the title of this edition of the Daily Dose that didn’t happen; also those two XX’s in the normal place for the date are there intentionally since I can’t seem to decide which day I want to publish this edition as. I could make it a really, really late edition for the 29th or it could be a very early edition for the 30th. I just returned home from that trip and it is 3:30 PM CST time and it is Thursday.

(Time out)
This computer is about to drive me crazy, I write the Daily Dose as Word Document and then copy and paste it over to steemit. Now Windows Word seems to have decided it needs to “auto-save” this damn thing about every guzbucking two sentences and it is so slow doing it I am getting fed up with this computer. Is there a way to change the settings for the auto save feature on Word ? I have looked but I can seem to find it, or if I can just turn the damn thing off would be fine with me.
(Time In)
#### *If this goes...*
If this goes as the Thursday edition I will need to turn right around and write a Friday edition as well. I just don’t know that I have the patience with this computer to do two Daily Doses in one day. I think I will just let it be the XX edition and you folks can decide what day you want it to be.
#### *This week in ...*
This week in Dallas didn’t go as well as we had hoped for when it came to putting in that new pump station at the golf course. About the only positive thing I can say about it is that we didn’t get the crane truck stuck and we didn’t rut the fairway up to badly on the course. Other than those two things not much went in our favor on this installation.

#### *Technical issues are...*
Technical issues are to be expected whenever you undertake a renovation project but this project had more than what I would consider as normal. We had three pumps, the discharge piping manifold, and the computer controls to install and all three pumps needed to be set at the same level in the water, but somehow the engineer who designed the pump station ended up getting the smallest pump 14 inches deeper than the two larger and pumps and that had it basically setting on the bottom of the wet well. (Wet well is area off from the main lake that uses a pipe to connect it to the main body of water, so the pump station is not directly over the main lake.) 

#### *That 14 inches...*
That 14 inches caused a problem and we ended up having to pull that entire pump set up and shorten the pipe by 14 inches. Not having a way to cut new threads for that shortened pipe meant having to send a guy off site to get that done on Wednesday.

 That whole deal just on that one pump ended up eating up over two hours of time getting it corrected and set back in its place. Had we discovered it on Tuesday when the crane was still onsite it wouldn’t have been such a big deal and would have taken less than half the time to correct.

#### *We did manage...*
We did manage to get everything hooked up both piping and the electrical before the end of the day on Wednesday. One thing I learned years ago when I was doing installations is that sometimes you just can’t make everything perfect, especially when you have to connect back up to something already existing. In this case that was an 8 inch pipe that came up from the ground to the bottom of the elevated platform that the pump station was on.

#### *Our main man...*
Our main man Bill who was in charge of the installation didn’t like that the 8” pipe was a half of bubble out of plumb when checked with a level and he kept insisting that we shove the pipe to make it straight and bolt up our butterfly valve to it when we got it plumb to the ground.
 
Jason was the instructed to make that adjustment and I told Jason as he was doing it that this isn’t a good idea and it won’t be pretty at some point in the future, I saw the mechanical joint near the bottom of that 8 inch pipe flexing a little as Jason was pushing on the pipe. I had already expressed to Bill that a half a bubble isn’t worth the risk of screwing up the vertical discharge piping but he thought otherwise.

####  *So this morning...*
So this morning when we finally got things in a position to test properly and pressurize up the golf course irrigation system things were going well except for a small leak on one pump collar and it shouldn’t be an issue fixing that, the big chain wrenches should handle that fairly easily.

<p><div class"pull-right">https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmPo3byBcBFjhRJFoY8LHrfRXBAoFYhwo8iUXz5ro7f591/image.png</div> The full operating pressure on these pumps is 100 psi and the system had just reached 90 PSI when all hell broke loose. Well, that 8 inch pipe that was half a bubble off was now completely off, and as you can see by the picture, water was going everywhere, the discharge rate on that pump is 700 gallons per minute and it was running full on. 

#### *The icing on the...*
The icing on the cake for me was that I knew in my mind that pipe would let go but I didn’t know when and it couldn’t have let go at a better time as far as I was concerned. The other young man working with us on these pump station installs is Andrew and Andrew had already gone up top before the pipe let go to let Bill know we had a leak on the bottom side and Bill told him “no we don’t, that water you are seeing is from the small discharge pipe.”

#### *Andrew has been...*
Andrew has been around these type of pumps for 10 years or more and he knows the difference between a leak and a discharge tube and he and I both saw that the leak at the pump head was also increasing, so he went and told Bill a second time and then Andrew came back down and was helping load tools onto the service truck.

 We had to unload some stuff to get to the two big chain wrenches and as we got them out Bill had just come down to take a look for himself at the pump leak. Bill ended up getting soaked when that 8 inch pipe let go as he just about two arms lengths from the pipe and plus when it blew; the  water that shot up and was reflected back down by the raised floor. So Bill was getting direct spray and reflected spray, he was completely soaked in a matter of seconds. Did I mention the temperature was in the low 50’s ? It was, and it was cold for me and I didn’t even get wet.

####  *Bill ended up...*
Bill ended running back up the stairs and shut the pump off and then he came back down. The golf course grounds keeper was there when it happened and he got right on his phone to summon his crew to repair the pipe.

 Bill suggested that Andrew and I pack up and head home since this was going to be a timely repair and Andrew comes from San Antonio and with me from the Houston area we both had over 3 to 4 hour drives ahead of us. Bill didn’t have to tell us twice, I put my rubber boots on and went and fetched the two big chain wrenches and we loaded Andrew’s truck and we were out of there in less than ten minutes. 

#### *I called Jason...*
I called Jason to let him know what had happened and he was laughing so hard on the phone he said he couldn’t catch his breath. He said, “It wasn’t like you didn’t warn Bill about jacking that pipe.”

 Jason was right, the problem with some people is that they think they know everything and don’t want to listen to the new guy. Bill will probably never mention to the groundskeeper that we jacked that pipe around making our stuff fit right up on the topside, but I guess some things are best left unsaid when dealing with the customer and they are willing to correct the problem.

#### *Right now I am...* 
Right now I am two hours into a twenty minute story thanks to that “auto save feature “ on this damn Microshit Word Program. If I were a vlogger I’d have been done an hour and half ago because I damn sure couldn’t do any editing.
#### *If I ever...*
 If I ever decide to vlog I will have to rename my work to Sultnpapper Raw or something along those lines since it would be raw footage with no edits. For those of wondering; No, I wouldn’t film in the raw, the film would be raw.

#### *I guess this is...*
I guess this is going to have to be the 11/30/18 edition of the Daily Dose, I had to take a break to eat and play the nightly poker game. I hadn’t played this week and I needed to win some SBD to keep funding the Saturday SBI giveaway.

#### *It wasn't a ...*
 It wasn’t a big money tournament but it all adds up and with the win in Thursday night game that is plenty to fund at least another week of SBI. I think I will still leave as the 11/XX/18 edition of the Daily Dose, since I like dos XX’s beer.

Until next time,
@sultnpapper

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