Day off from ranch work.
Posted: 22 Aug 2015 14:22
After three months of hardly stepping into my reloading room, I took a day off from the ranch to walk through the door and start reorganizing it. I have a conditioned storage room in another building out here so most of my stockpile of bullets, brass, hulls, and primers will move over there to make the space usable. The morning was a wash out as I started to tinker with things but I'm going out there on a mission now to get things back to where they were.
At the first of the summer I had a problem with water flowing into the floor from tropical storm type of rains, 13"/hour, and had to move and stack things off the floor onto portable tables. The problem was the volume of water coming off of two roof lines and being trapped between the respective buildings. I cured that by creating a concrete walkway between the two that is actually a rain culvert to get the water that is coming off the massive roofs beyond and away from the buildings as fast as possible. We had some tropical rain yesterday and it performed like expected so I'm satisfied I can resume life in the room without any worry for the next major tropical deluge.
The reloading room is at the furthest windows on the building on the right, that is right where the water that was backing up had nowhere to go. It was flowing up and under the aluminum siding and into my room.
Getting this taken care of all the way to the front porch of the mobile home was huge undertaking. There is a lot of underground electrical and water lines between the two buildings that had to be considered as well. The AC unit was put on a pier as had quite a bit of standing water across it as well.
This is one of things that I had going this summer, I guess it counts somewhat to reloading.
At the first of the summer I had a problem with water flowing into the floor from tropical storm type of rains, 13"/hour, and had to move and stack things off the floor onto portable tables. The problem was the volume of water coming off of two roof lines and being trapped between the respective buildings. I cured that by creating a concrete walkway between the two that is actually a rain culvert to get the water that is coming off the massive roofs beyond and away from the buildings as fast as possible. We had some tropical rain yesterday and it performed like expected so I'm satisfied I can resume life in the room without any worry for the next major tropical deluge.
The reloading room is at the furthest windows on the building on the right, that is right where the water that was backing up had nowhere to go. It was flowing up and under the aluminum siding and into my room.
Getting this taken care of all the way to the front porch of the mobile home was huge undertaking. There is a lot of underground electrical and water lines between the two buildings that had to be considered as well. The AC unit was put on a pier as had quite a bit of standing water across it as well.
This is one of things that I had going this summer, I guess it counts somewhat to reloading.