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General Category => Fabrication => Topic started by: joel on March 22, 2009, 08:44:24 AM

Title: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: joel on March 22, 2009, 08:44:24 AM: The Cities of Fargo, ND and Moorhead MN are on track for the worst flood since 1897. My parents live on the river. This is our Dike.
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Fuck sandbagging.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: CSaddict on March 22, 2009, 11:20:17 AM: Worst case scenario if it fail you won't have to pay for the water to fill the hot tub.

I would still sand bag though.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: Henry on March 22, 2009, 12:28:19 PM: So a plywood wall is gonna stop a flood? Should of saved your money and bought sandbags and maybe use the wood to build a boat if the flood is gonna be that bad. Eh, best of luck.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: brine04 on March 22, 2009, 01:36:34 PM: What are you using to seal the joints between sheets and the plywood to the concrete? Hopes and dreams?
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: ryan89crx on March 22, 2009, 03:23:50 PM: Quote from: c0mpl3x on March 22, 2009, 02:46:10 PM
what are you going to use to support thousands of lbs of pressure in water form, from folding the walls back? i hope you aren't done
i was thinking the same thing. there is going to be a shit ton of weight pushing against that wall. its going to fall the fuck over
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: dvst8r on March 22, 2009, 03:26:54 PM: There won't be any pressure unless they seal the joints, it will all just leak through and equalize on both sides, leaving the wall as is. :D
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: 90dx on March 22, 2009, 03:29:11 PM: Should have maybe used all that wood and time to build a raft :P
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: Random Hero on March 22, 2009, 03:37:06 PM: I would definetely support the wall to the house, the water WILL tear that down
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: Conceptz-X on March 22, 2009, 03:51:56 PM: Quote from: Random Hero on March 22, 2009, 03:37:06 PM
I would definetely support the wall to the house, the water WILL tear that down
Then crush the house like a beer can.

The wall might work up to about 3 feet if sealed up with a high flow waste water pump to keep any water that leaks or seeps through the ground, after that my money is on fail at 4 feet deep. Move all your shit upstairs and pray like a motherfucker. (keep small powered jon boat ready as well with fuel)
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: joel on March 22, 2009, 07:30:09 PM: (https://realhomemadeturbo.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv294%2Fatmospere_adikt%2Fflood.jpg&hash=4d7628e4b1970e23c90dee2fa9d2ebabe4f2f132)
It works, Trust me.... this isnt the first time we've done this... We add 4x4 bracing in between the side of the house and the flood wall.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: foumer on March 22, 2009, 08:17:18 PM: damn!!! good luck
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: Conceptz-X on March 22, 2009, 08:17:49 PM: I wouldnt be living there
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: crxvtec91 on March 22, 2009, 11:08:26 PM: Oh crap, WTF.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: Hotrodlincoln on March 22, 2009, 11:16:43 PM: Tarps? hmmm looks like you should build it higher this time...
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: ghettoturbo on March 22, 2009, 11:44:48 PM: damn that last pic is serious.

Maybe just save that $$ next time and make sure the flood insurance is paid that month. Let house float away, collect $$ and move.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: caged on March 23, 2009, 12:00:53 AM: Get some pics of the house floating away, you might make front page :noel:
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: widebody93 on March 23, 2009, 12:08:04 AM: I know the feeling of getting almost flooded out of your house, I just pack shit up and moved out in 1 day, luckly I got by on the hair of my chinni chin chin
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: joel on March 23, 2009, 10:53:31 AM: Quote from: Hotrodlincoln on March 22, 2009, 11:16:43 PM
Tarps? hmmm looks like you should build it higher this time...
Yes there is 6 mil plastic wrapped over the whole thing...

We built it 3 ft higher than the last pic... We take it down and store the wall every year. This Is a new wall because We have had higher forecast predictions than anything in history(now surpassed 41 ft. We can only hope it doesnt get that high...) If it hits 42 ft, the whole town will be under water and we would have to ring our entire house to save it. We have plenty of flood insurance. Were not fucking retarded. The fact of trying to save your house that you have lived in for ten yrs is worth the fight. I will post pics of the water lever soon. Its gettting closer and closer by the minute
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: MantisX on March 23, 2009, 11:04:32 AM: What the fuck for?
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: onlyflash944 on March 23, 2009, 11:08:21 AM: do you have like a gas water pump that keeps the sump dry? that can't be watertite
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: racingtiger on March 23, 2009, 11:53:28 AM: you should build one of these just in case (https://realhomemadeturbo.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fofficespam.chattablogs.com%2Farchives%2Fredneck-house-boat-1.jpg&hash=de4940a973e25a2cebd949474ef9395f604959d8)
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: g_shok on March 23, 2009, 12:55:31 PM: that is some crazy floodage right there
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: SloS13 on March 23, 2009, 04:09:11 PM: Dude, you totally need a boat dock. People will be like WTF? Then they'll be like awww yeah dawg.

Put that shit on the ground with some styrofoam, and boat up top. Once if floods, voiva - insta-dock.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: Loki on March 23, 2009, 04:12:12 PM: That is crazy :o
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Post by: Teg2boo on March 23, 2009, 04:40:50 PM: Shit, do you live bellow the water level or what? :?:
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: foumer on March 23, 2009, 05:18:03 PM: My brother has the same dilemma when it rains bad. He lives next to small river and the bridge next to house sometimes can support all the water flowing by, so it overflows the road and the water comes in trough the driveway. After to floods we had to build a nice iron gate and wall.
You say why? He got the house mad cheap and its a big ass property. Cant win sometimes. ::)
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: joel on March 23, 2009, 07:45:44 PM: Sandbag filling stations on the street in front of my house
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The city has ordered everyone to tie their dikes together... Fuck my life.
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Neigbors house
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Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: glustic on March 23, 2009, 07:57:23 PM: Wow, I didn't think it would be that bad. Holy shit. Good luck.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: joel on March 23, 2009, 09:26:35 PM: Well, we got HUGE amounts of rain tonight so we shut down(8pm). Tomorrow will be the day to add bracing and work on the inside of the wall. We Placed our sump holes/Buckets tonight and are getting lighting set up to work all night for the next couple of days. Time for rest now.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: Random Hero on March 23, 2009, 09:34:45 PM: Good luck!!!!

Can you stilt the house?
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: joel on March 23, 2009, 09:47:14 PM: The water last week on thursday...
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The watter today...
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Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: wpgredteg on March 23, 2009, 09:49:29 PM: we're also expecting some flooding in manitoba soon after it hits you guys. hopefully it's not as bad as it was in 1997. Good Luck!
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: slappynuts on March 24, 2009, 02:07:49 AM: Quote from: joel on March 23, 2009, 07:45:44 PM
Sandbag filling stations on the street in front of my house
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The city has ordered everyone to tie their dikes together... Fuck my life.

Tie up all the dykes! :P Oh dikes. NVM. Good luck up there.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: 7808 on March 24, 2009, 02:16:00 AM: seems like alot of hassle, id probly just move, or if i was set on living there, id build my shit up on stilts, make a hill, or a permanent wall
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: joel on March 24, 2009, 02:30:55 AM: Quote from: 7808 on March 24, 2009, 02:16:00 AM
seems like alot of hassle, id probly just move, or if i was set on living there, id build my shit up on stilts, make a hill, or a permanent wall

I don't think anyone gets it. This is the highest predicted flood in History PERIOD. This doesnt happen every year, or even every 5 yrs.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: levelzero on March 24, 2009, 04:03:08 AM: Someone needs to come up with a sandbag filling contraption.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: d-rail on March 24, 2009, 04:13:01 AM: Quote from: levelzero on March 24, 2009, 04:03:08 AM
Someone needs to come up with a sandbag filling contraption.

Someone would forget it and leave it for the flood water to take it back to china.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: joel on March 24, 2009, 07:17:10 AM: Quote from: levelzero on March 24, 2009, 04:03:08 AM
Someone needs to come up with a sandbag filling contraption.

Fargo(other side of the river) uses 2 giant sand bag filling contraptions that can do 500 bags / hour. But, the sand we have here has a lot of clay in it, so it clogs up the machines. The cone contraptions we have can do 2 bags every 5 seconds if your going quick. now mind you there is probably a hundred stations in Moorhead with those cone things, so were going plenty fast. Plus Fargos sandbags are built at the fargodome, then palletized and shipped out from there. Some bags are traveling 5 miles on a trailer. Moorhead has a filling station in each neighborhood so the bags have to go maybe a quarter mile max. They brough a bag filling machine into our neighborhood last night. The one Moorhead uses is portable and works pretty well, but it sews the bags shut. That makes clean up way harder.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: onlyflash944 on March 24, 2009, 11:57:54 AM: insane

i think it would only take one flood till i moved
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: joel on March 26, 2009, 10:10:52 AM: Video from my walkout basement at 38.3 ft(River is supposed to Crest at 41.)
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v294/atmospere_adikt/?action=view&current=floodwall382.flv (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v294/atmospere_adikt/?action=view&current=floodwall382.flv)

We are really only worried about Seapage at this point the flood wall has proven itself strong enough to hold. The top pieces are on because the city ordered us to build another foot on top It isnt projected to get that high so we didnt worry about putting plastic over it, just enough to make the city happy.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: joel on March 26, 2009, 10:49:02 AM: Quote from: rawr on March 26, 2009, 10:28:57 AM
Do you realize you've built a house around your house to protect your house? That's a lot more work than I'd like to do.
Spening 1200 dollars to protect a 200k home isnt a big deal I dont think.

This mornings project... There will be more to come like this. I think this should work....
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Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: wpgredteg on March 26, 2009, 02:07:59 PM: it's for sure a ton of work to do but it's necessary. we've got some sandbagging going on along the red river over too but it has been slowed due to the blizzard that just came through. also the red river is ice jammed, so the water is rising even faster.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: 4drcivicmaster on March 26, 2009, 02:20:54 PM: best of luck. im in st.cloud,mn and i've heard how bad it is.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: ryan89crx on March 26, 2009, 05:18:43 PM: damn dude, good luck. hope your wall holds up
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: Conceptz-X on March 26, 2009, 08:37:50 PM: Quote from: joel on March 26, 2009, 10:49:02 AM
Quote from: rawr on March 26, 2009, 10:28:57 AM
Do you realize you've built a house around your house to protect your house? That's a lot more work than I'd like to do.
Spening 1200 dollars to protect a 200k home isnt a big deal I dont think.

This mornings project... There will be more to come like this. I think this should work....

So at what point do you call it a loss, abandon ship and call the insurance company, and pray they don't need to ask for a bailout to cover the current flood event?
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: Conceptz-X on March 26, 2009, 09:14:01 PM: Quote from: c0mpl3x on March 26, 2009, 08:54:03 PM
yo dawg, we heard you like houses so we put a house around your house so your house can be in a house
lol
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: t_cel_t on March 26, 2009, 09:20:04 PM: just heard on the radio that the national weather service now says it will crest at 43 feet tomorrow
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Post by: ghettoturbo on March 26, 2009, 11:12:04 PM: good luck man
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: robus on March 27, 2009, 12:28:48 AM: why not build a stone wall and be done for evah with it ???

granted it'll cost you more than 1200 but you won't have to worry or think about it anymore

good luck though
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: Zeniceguycrx on March 27, 2009, 12:40:21 AM: did he sink yet?
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: HiProfile on March 27, 2009, 02:22:29 AM: I'm guessing he got a taste of what we got in WI, his whole town washed away, and he's in some Canadian refugee camp w/o internet.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: caged on March 27, 2009, 05:18:41 AM: THats a shit load of water in that vid :-\ good luck but if it gets up to you extended bit i think your fucked. That looks cold too.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: Zeniceguycrx on March 27, 2009, 08:36:41 AM: Id go help if I was a bit closer

I also heard on the raio today a dam broke, 50 dead, and a whole town is gone
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: onlyflash944 on March 27, 2009, 09:35:22 AM: its sad when there is only one line of defense, if that gets breached everyone is screwed
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: 92CXyD on March 27, 2009, 10:42:38 AM: Quote from: Zeniceguycrx on March 27, 2009, 08:36:41 AM
Id go help if I was a bit closer

I also heard on the raio today a dam broke, 50 dead, and a whole town is gone

What? Where?

My MSN link is down for some reason.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: Tim on March 27, 2009, 10:45:13 AM: Quote from: Zeniceguycrx on March 27, 2009, 08:36:41 AM
Id go help if I was a bit closer

I also heard on the raio today a dam broke, 50 dead, and a whole town is gone
That really sucks. I was just thinkin there is no way in hell I'd be standing behind that wall taking the vid-that shit breaks and you're dead. I hope his house didn't wash away, with him and his family in it.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: wpgredteg on March 27, 2009, 11:01:53 AM: i saw some people rescued off the roofs of their houses because they thought they could handle it. although i dont think they had a wall defense like you do. is the crest still expected for this weekend?
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: wpgredteg on March 27, 2009, 12:43:06 PM: these are some pictures from grand forks i found on another site.

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Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: onlyflash944 on March 27, 2009, 01:42:38 PM: id have a cooler of beer and a few intertubes tied to the top of that monument and ride it out there for a week
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: jeffsciv23 on March 27, 2009, 03:24:38 PM: holy shit thats alot of water, hope your wall holds up
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: caged on March 27, 2009, 05:30:22 PM: Quote from: onlyflash944 on March 27, 2009, 01:42:38 PM
id have a cooler of beer and a few intertubes tied to the top of that monument and ride it out there for a week

At least you beer wouldnt get warm with all that ice.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: onlyflash944 on March 27, 2009, 07:27:14 PM: Quote from: caged on March 27, 2009, 05:30:22 PM
At least you beer wouldnt get warm with all that ice.

reminds me of my buddy who made koozies for 40s out of an old wet suit he couldn't fit in anymore
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: Conceptz-X on March 27, 2009, 09:58:02 PM: Is he still floating?

Fuck that whole thing is a mess. I want a house on the water, but seeing shit like that makes you think twice. I grew up on an island, near Lake Erie, so water is something I enjoy. Right now, I'm all fucked up living here in AL, there's the Chatahooche river, but that cess pool is nasty and filthy.
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Post by: Teg2boo on March 28, 2009, 01:20:50 AM: Country music sucks.
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Post by: 90LSPimpin on March 28, 2009, 01:29:09 AM: This is while you wont catch my Black ass near water.
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Post by: jeffsciv23 on March 28, 2009, 01:38:27 AM: wonder what happened to him?
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Post by: robus on March 28, 2009, 11:55:33 AM: he either got wet or he didn't
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: Conceptz-X on March 28, 2009, 03:04:02 PM: Quote from: robus on March 28, 2009, 11:55:33 AM
he either got wet or he didn't
WTF kind of post was that?

I hope he got the fuck out of the way and saved any car parts he had
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: jeffsciv23 on March 28, 2009, 03:23:46 PM: sounds like they were saying that most of his town was evacuated, so that probly explains it.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: joel on March 28, 2009, 04:11:20 PM: So after a long battle of flood fighting, we are still High and dry. We have been having a small leak under our planters through the soil. But our electric pumps have been able to keep up. Our wall is hold strong and will not be going anywhere. We are only worried about seapage now. The city diked our house and both houses next to us in. That really fucked us. We built 2 wing dikes on the side of our house, so we are now fully ringed. Our neighbor to the north of us lost his house last night.

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Oh yeah, my walls not gonna break 8)
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: jeffsciv23 on March 28, 2009, 04:35:50 PM: holy shit man, that alot of fucking water. glad your doign alright and holding your ground. check in on the topic about you in GD to let them know your not dead
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: joel on March 28, 2009, 05:11:47 PM: Video from my my garage around my front yard
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v294/atmospere_adikt/?action=view&current=0327091859.flv (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v294/atmospere_adikt/?action=view&current=0327091859.flv)

Oh Yeah, I almost forgot to tell you guys, we added some more bracing :?:
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Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: Loki on March 28, 2009, 05:33:26 PM: Quote from: Teg2boo on March 28, 2009, 01:20:50 AM
Country music sucks.

So do french people.

Good luck, that's a lot of fucking water :-\
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: N1ghtM0nkey on March 28, 2009, 05:41:02 PM: That looks like the last fucking place on earth I would want to live. Cold as fuck, snow, rain, floods. Is there anything good about where you live or do you just enjoy living there because it sucks so much?
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: joel on March 28, 2009, 05:46:24 PM: Quote from: n/a mike on March 28, 2009, 05:37:21 PM
fuck that is a lot of water. 4feet deep at the wall you built?
oh and great video, i love the sound of walking on snow.
the planter are 3 ft tall, and the water is up 7 ft from the ground at our dike, so technically its 7 ft up our wall.

Quote from: N1ghtM0nkey on March 28, 2009, 05:41:02 PM
That looks like the last fucking place on earth I would want to live. Cold as fuck, snow, rain, floods. Is there anything good about where you live or do you just enjoy living there because it sucks so much?
Look up best places to live. I think Fargo/Moorhead was in the top 15 last year. No Crime, NO EMISSIONS TESTING!, Everything we need but not nearly the traffic of a big city. Shit man, I love it here.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: Sinister on March 28, 2009, 09:22:01 PM: Fuck that, I live by a lake but atleast I'm at the top of the hill :P Even if the water level gets high as fuck it'll never reach us
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: Conceptz-X on March 28, 2009, 09:38:05 PM: I used to live about 3 houses down from the Niagara River, living upstream of the falls, waterlevel couldnt change but 3-4 feet max hi to low, Lake Erie was a different story depending on how the wind blew, it could change 7 feet sometimes
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: crx2fast on March 29, 2009, 03:48:58 AM: jesus man good luck.. hope everything works out for ya
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: joel on March 29, 2009, 09:44:45 AM: Made it through the night awesome. Water levels are descending faster than the NWS predicted. O0 O0
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: 90dx on March 29, 2009, 01:14:21 PM: Wow well good luck looks like your gonna make it out dry :noel:
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: joel on March 29, 2009, 01:20:12 PM: I have a 4 minute Blair witch style walk around video thats being processed on youtube right now... I will post it up as soon as its done.

3607 Riverview Circle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI2CWn-DCYs#lq-lq2-hq-vhq)
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: wpgredteg on March 29, 2009, 07:18:45 PM: looks like a pretty sturdy structure. nicely done
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: onlyflash944 on March 29, 2009, 09:25:01 PM: you should definatley have a city wide game of paintball capture the flag now that every house has bunkers
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: imburne on March 29, 2009, 09:28:01 PM: Wheres the Arc and whens the flood?
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: robus on March 30, 2009, 02:53:23 AM: Quote from: onlyflash944 on March 29, 2009, 09:25:01 PM
you should definatley have a city wide game of paintball capture the flag now that every house has bunkers
lol
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: t_cel_t on March 30, 2009, 04:14:34 AM: jesus what a cluster fuck of 2x4's
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: HiProfile on March 30, 2009, 04:33:37 AM: SHit, the last pix look like Red Green invaded your yard. Where's the duct tape?
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: joel on March 30, 2009, 11:46:54 AM: Quote from: HiProfile on March 30, 2009, 04:33:37 AM
SHit, the last pix look like Red Green invaded your yard. Where's the duct tape?
:somb:
Its funny, we were just talking about that yesterday. My neighbors flood wall is nig-rigged like no tomorrow but he's holding just as well as we are. We werent going for look but strength. We had several family friends who are professional carpenters come in to help.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: joel on March 31, 2009, 05:37:43 PM: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/31/onefamilyfights/ (http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/31/onefamilyfights/)

I'm famous, I guess.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: FastGermanCar on March 31, 2009, 05:46:16 PM: Quote from: joel on March 31, 2009, 05:37:43 PM
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/31/onefamilyfights/ (http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/31/onefamilyfights/)

I'm famous, I guess.

sweet. so u work at home depot thats how u got all the wood cheap.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: SirDragsAlot on March 31, 2009, 05:49:33 PM: good show brother, that wall worked good. see people how good quality workmanship saves the day.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: joel on March 31, 2009, 05:59:16 PM: Quote from: FastGermanCar on March 31, 2009, 05:46:16 PM
Quote from: joel on March 31, 2009, 05:37:43 PM
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/31/onefamilyfights/ (http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/31/onefamilyfights/)

I'm famous, I guess.

sweet. so u work at home depot thats how u got all the wood cheap.
Fuck that, We don't use Bullshit Home Depot lumber. We buy from a locally owned lumber yard, which has much higher quality wood. Hope my boss doesnt see this post, lawl
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: Toysrme on March 31, 2009, 06:17:24 PM: just makes me glad we live down here. shit dude we've been wakeboarding on the river for 5 weeks now and you've got fucking snow on the ground LOL!
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: joel on March 31, 2009, 07:33:12 PM: Quote from: Toysrme on March 31, 2009, 06:17:24 PM
just makes me glad we live down here. shit dude we've been wakeboarding on the river for 5 weeks now and you've got fucking snow on the ground LOL!
it was like 50 plus for 3 or 4 days and then it started flooding, then the blizzards came. Fuck man, I'm prepared for the Blood River, The Plague and locusts to come next.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: Conceptz-X on March 31, 2009, 09:07:02 PM: Glad to hear all is well so far.

You still getting snow or rain?
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: turbob16hatch on April 01, 2009, 12:56:43 AM: we got i think 10+ inches the last 2 days and last i heard there is more to come.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: robus on April 01, 2009, 10:22:40 AM: So with all the flooding why nobody there builds a bloody stone wall? Doesn't look good??
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: Random Hero on April 08, 2009, 10:52:16 PM: Updates?
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: widebody93 on April 11, 2009, 08:45:02 PM: It would of been prime if Iburn's r-hmt shirt or the OCZC shirt would of been worn during the picture of you. LOL
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: joel on April 12, 2009, 10:56:22 AM: Quote from: Random Hero on April 08, 2009, 10:52:16 PM
Updates?
Water is completely off the flood wall. They are predicting a second crest just as high as the last one so we will see. We have been adding some sandbags on top of the ground behind the dike to hold back the pressure from the ground from coming up. (https://realhomemadeturbo.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv294%2Fatmospere_adikt%2FIMG_0344.jpg&hash=8d1d24ac46bcd5cd05bf68b04b45ee0c6d7ffa7d)
(https://realhomemadeturbo.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv294%2Fatmospere_adikt%2FIMG_0346.jpg&hash=fe33ad3721a41e55516b5f70a575c8f3e58a546b)
(https://realhomemadeturbo.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv294%2Fatmospere_adikt%2FIMG_0345.jpg&hash=9100fda196943de954c8da9c0bc5b404ab3a662a)

Bagged everything except for the Sump Holes
(https://realhomemadeturbo.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv294%2Fatmospere_adikt%2FIMG_0347.jpg&hash=2bdd01620e325e771669725562caacfd21b3cef9)
(https://realhomemadeturbo.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv294%2Fatmospere_adikt%2FIMG_0348.jpg&hash=5224a54c7404bb8e22d7f7e0d7c771b6f3436866)

Also, We put plastic covering the ground out about 10 ft from the wall. Were hoping this will cut back on some of the pressure from coming through the ground, up under the planters and behind the wall.
(https://realhomemadeturbo.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv294%2Fatmospere_adikt%2FIMG_0340.jpg&hash=5e8b85664683a216dd0fa116c27c320cd9273f64)
(https://realhomemadeturbo.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv294%2Fatmospere_adikt%2FIMG_0341.jpg&hash=ceb6145929e9666d63900e2004998b20b53616d9)
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Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: 86crxZ6T on April 12, 2009, 03:02:18 PM: did the water push that wall in?
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: joel on April 12, 2009, 08:22:55 PM: Quote from: c0mpl3x on April 12, 2009, 04:22:52 PM
ground saturates, water table is above the ground level. water WILL seep in from the lower side, this is how wells for country water work.
Yes The ground is saturated already. We are worried about the hydraulic pressure.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: Joseph Davis on April 13, 2009, 12:22:10 PM: Between bouts of bailing water with buckets do you relax in that fat hot tub?
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: onlyflash944 on April 13, 2009, 11:51:36 PM: Quote from: Joseph Davis on April 13, 2009, 12:22:10 PM
Between bouts of bailing water with buckets do you relax in that fat hot tub?

no shit, i was thinking the same thing. long daiy of bailing, just relax in the hot tub. its like front row seats to the destruction of your house if something fails

g/l with round 2
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: joel on April 14, 2009, 08:12:18 AM: Quote from: onlyflash944 on April 13, 2009, 11:51:36 PM
Quote from: Joseph Davis on April 13, 2009, 12:22:10 PM
Between bouts of bailing water with buckets do you relax in that fat hot tub?

no shit, i was thinking the same thing. long daiy of bailing, just relax in the hot tub. its like front row seats to the destruction of your house if something fails

g/l with round 2
We used to in 2006, but our power shut off while we were on vacation during the winter a couple years ago, and a couple pipes froze. BTW, we don't bail water with buckets, where did you get that Idea? The 5 Gallon buckets are sunk int the ground and have holes drilled into them. We place sump pump into the bucket and pump water out that seaps throught the ground.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: Joseph Davis on April 14, 2009, 10:45:15 AM: If the power goes out, get video footage of real life bucket bailling please.

Also, since you haven't used the hot tub in three years you really should give it to me.
Title: Re: Homemade Flood wall
Post by: onlyflash944 on April 14, 2009, 11:58:50 PM: Quote from: Joseph Davis on April 14, 2009, 10:45:15 AM
If the power goes out, get video footage of real life bucket bailling please.

you mean if the generator throws a rod and the power goes out?