Thursday, August 15, 2013

We're Repaired and Ready

After more than a week of hanging out on the farm the port rear bearing has been replaced and after a short test drive appears to check out. The stbd bearing seems to be OK, no noise or anything, so we've decided to leave it in until there's a reason to swap it with the spare bearing we are now carrying.


cleaned up and going out to dinner!
We have had a wonderful week meeting new friends and really learning about an interesting and quickly changing community.  It has really helped us see the whole picture of fracking, not only from our tree hugger, knee-jerk liberal point of view but the perspective of hard working farmers and landowners sitting on top of the gold mines of natural gas, oil, sand, and gravel. It was sad to see the beautiful farmland being scraped away for oil rigs, man-camps, disposal sites, sand and gravel pits, roadways, stores and services and the astonishing rate at which it is all happening. 






Thayer driving the tractor and Larry supervising


We stayed an extra day so that Thayer could help Larry get the alfalfa crop in on one of his many properties that he owns/manages.  He spends so much time bird-dogging the oil companies on his land that it is really hard to get his farming done.  It is also difficult to find hired help because of all the high paying oil jobs.  



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typical NG rig









3 comments:

  1. Very funny blog, I'm going to be a faithful follower. Now if I can just figure out how to make a comment.

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  2. Sounds like you meet some great folks there. Where they BDW members as well??

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  3. No, Karsty, they were the owners of the farm where our rig was waiting to be fixed. They rented out their big shop to the mechanic who was to fix the rig.

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