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Old 11-06-2009, 04:25 PM   #41
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newspaper even gave us a burp today.
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Old 11-06-2009, 09:50 PM   #42
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Old 11-07-2009, 10:19 PM   #43
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I never saw beautiful dirt like that the entire 30 years I lived in south dakota. You east river's got it easy!
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Old 11-07-2009, 10:51 PM   #44
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Nice write-up.

And it looks like they got the corn chopper out ahead of you for that field.
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Old 11-09-2009, 07:48 PM   #45
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Congrats. Good margins on this one?
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Old 11-17-2009, 07:23 PM   #46
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few pics from today...dug hole/installed meter vault, went back to putting pipe in this afternoon....the one pic, you can see the dairy in the background....that's at the 3 1/2 mile mark of the 5 miles we have to do.
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Goodness, but you do have some beautiful wide open space out there.

What the hell is that yellow wire in the foreground of the pics.....detonation cord...to speed the backfill?
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oh man, id kill for a project like that........
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Goodness, but you do have some beautiful wide open space out there.

What the hell is that yellow wire in the foreground of the pics.....detonation cord...to speed the backfill?
those are ropes we had tied on to the clevis's to steer them down the hole.
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those are ropes we had tied on to the clevis's to steer them down the hole.
Oh darn, there goes the fun.....
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