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jeepinmatt said:
Lid to the tank.

I don’t exactly know what all that stuff means. It goes from a big tank to a large PVC pipe to a concrete box with 3 black corrugated pipes feeding 3 gravel leach lines. It’s a 45 year old system that has never once had a single problem or even been pumped. And now the county says 2 of the 3 leach lines have failed.
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Second thought......methinks this may have been sarcasm without the font. You seem much more edumacated then this statement.
 
jeepinmatt said:
Lid to the tank.

I don’t exactly know what all that stuff means. It goes from a big tank to a large PVC pipe to a concrete box with 3 black corrugated pipes feeding 3 gravel leach lines. It’s a 45 year old system that has never once had a single problem or even been pumped. And now the county says 2 of the 3 leach lines have failed.
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The lack of pumping is why 2/3 lines have failed. Have you pumped the tank and had the lines jetted yet? Sometimes that will do the trick.
 
@jeconn under the knife. 4.88s at both ends and a rebuild.
Teardown complete, waiting on the gears to arrive.

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Somehow, I'm not as Awed at Rock Quarries, as I am at Sand Pits! Or maybe I should say, SC Sand Pits. It's called the Low Country, & still hard to think of all this land being Under the Oceans, at some point. Pageland Sand Pitts, SC.
Picture does not show the Magnitude! And just one of Several Companies.
 

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rodney eppes said:
Somehow, I'm not as Awed at Rock Quarries, as I am at Sand Pits! Or maybe I should say, SC Sand Pits. It's called the Low Country, & still hard to think of all this land being Under the Oceans, at some point. Pageland Sand Pitts, SC.
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I agree, we had a sand pit behind my parents house, we all rode dirtbikes and atvs there. It is larger in square miles then the town I lived it and is 150' below grade.
 
rodney eppes said:
Somehow, I'm not as Awed at Rock Quarries, as I am at Sand Pits! Or maybe I should say, SC Sand Pits. It's called the Low Country, & still hard to think of all this land being Under the Oceans, at some point. Pageland Sand Pitts, SC.
Picture does not show the Magnitude! And just one of Several Companies.
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What are you doing snooping around my hometown? Lol
 
rodney eppes said:
Somehow, I'm not as Awed at Rock Quarries, as I am at Sand Pits! Or maybe I should say, SC Sand Pits. It's called the Low Country, & still hard to think of all this land being Under the Oceans, at some point. Pageland Sand Pitts, SC.
Picture does not show the Magnitude! And just one of Several Companies.
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The place we pull out of around Bennetsville, SC is around 10,000 acres and for the most part is defunct. It has been bought out by Hanson Products. We pull tailings out of it to refine to our needs. The geological properties are amazing and not found anywhere else in the world. Our refined products go international due to the properties and the hardness of crushed stone and sand. We produce anything from X-fine (basically baking powder fineness) up to 3” washed stone. (Mohs scale of hardness and things like that) I agree that it’s very intriguing.
 
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This stuff had been lurking in my parents barn, basement, and attic, so I decided my kids needed to be introduced to real American childhood with some Real American Heroes.
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Started building the USS Flagg tonight. It was in a box in the barn and needed a purple power and hot water bath due to friggin mice.
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Plenty more to come. I forgot how awesome this GI Joe stuff was.
 
WARRIORWELDING said:
Second thought......methinks this may have been sarcasm without the font. You seem much more edumacated then this statement.
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This is not a topic I’m educated on. The tank has two chambers and there is a removable cover for pumping out each chamber. I called it a lid, but it probably has another name. Strap was hooked to that to lift it off. No riser on it, but we will install them to save the headache of digging it out next time.

awheelterd said:
The lack of pumping is why 2/3 lines have failed. Have you pumped the tank and had the lines jetted yet? Sometimes that will do the trick.
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No, apparently I need to research jetting the lines. 1 of the 3 is still good.
 
WARRIORWELDING said:
Tank with lid. Lid often has a riser made of concrete. A taller square box raises lid closer or at ground level. Beneath lid should be a (tee) concrete or PVC. PVC often had a screen filter. Clogs and get pitched instead of maintenance cleaning. Tees (entrance and exit) and baffle walls made into the tank became enforced standards many years ago in concrete tanks. All serve the purpose of dividing solids and liquids to separate parts through specific gravity and the waste break down cycle. The baffle in the middle further divides heavy solids and liquid into a two chamber system. (Note if a tank fails never let the pumper pump one chamber. He will be back in a shorter duration and a failed tank usually results on solids throughout with a short circuit flow of liquids to exit. Little to none of the digestion of solids. The good new is the leach field has basically been flushed by receiving clearer liquids for some time.) Tail line leads to smaller boxes used to distribute the effluent. It's just a fancy branch or y connection. However not installed correctly they too can fill with materials. Usually mud since at this point the tank out puts, baffle, and tees have controls the type of sediment coming in. Gravel beds and tile, plastic infiltrator panels ( plastic sheds over gravel beds, or the goofy peanut Styrofoam filled tampons move the fluids to a greater grid to allow ground contact to absorb materials. Leaching.
All leach fields can eventually self correct and heal given time and no mechanical failures causing short circuits. If land and space permits I am of a mind that all systems should have redundant drain fields with a ball valve for annual rotation.
God help those with poor soil, lift pumps, and females who flush tampons.....lol.
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No filter on this old system, and of course they only pumped one side. Tank is about 5ft deep and the second side had a good 3ft of solids still in it.
 
jeepinmatt said:
This stuff had been lurking in my parents barn, basement, and attic, so I decided my kids needed to be introduced to real American childhood with some Real American Heroes.
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Started building the USS Flagg tonight. It was in a box in the barn and needed a purple power and hot water bath due to friggin mice.
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Plenty more to come. I forgot how awesome this GI Joe stuff was.
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Damn! I thought I was kewl with the F-14, you had the freakin aircraft carrier!?!? BALLER!
 
jeepinmatt said:
This stuff had been lurking in my parents barn, basement, and attic, so I decided my kids needed to be introduced to real American childhood with some Real American Heroes.
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Started building the USS Flagg tonight. It was in a box in the barn and needed a purple power and hot water bath due to friggin mice.
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Plenty more to come. I forgot how awesome this GI Joe stuff was.
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That's some $$$ right there.
 
mbalbritton said:
Damn! I thought I was kewl with the F-14, you had the freakin aircraft carrier!?!? BALLER!
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Full disclosure, I did not have that as a kid. Honestly half the reason I wanted to set this stuff up in the basement was so I could see it!

Back when I was renting a house in college, the people renting the house beside me were moving out and asked if I wanted "this GI Joe battleship thing that is missing some pieces?"
"Uh, duh!" was probably my answer. I quickly took whatever big chunks of plastic and vacuum cleaner box of parts it was and stuck em in a corner. Then when I turned into an adult and moved out, it landed in my parents barn, and has been there for nearly 20 years. Last night was the first time I had ever laid it all out, and I quickly realized that it was much more complete than I knew. It even had the instructions and the sticker pages (though nearly all of them were already installed). My oldest and I were thrilled to see that it had all the deck pieces and the entire bridge. There are a few broken tabs and missing gun barrels, but I'd say its about 90% complete. 😍
 
jeepinmatt said:
Full disclosure, I did not have that as a kid. Honestly half the reason I wanted to set this stuff up in the basement was so I could see it!

Back when I was renting a house in college, the people renting the house beside me were moving out and asked if I wanted "this GI Joe battleship thing that is missing some pieces?"
"Uh, duh!" was probably my answer. I quickly took whatever big chunks of plastic and vacuum cleaner box of parts it was and stuck em in a corner. Then when I turned into an adult and moved out, it landed in my parents barn, and has been there for nearly 20 years. Last night was the first time I had ever laid it all out, and I quickly realized that it was much more complete than I knew. It even had the instructions and the sticker pages (though 95% of them were already installed). My oldest and I were thrilled to see that it had all the deck pieces and the entire bridge. There are a few broken tabs and missing gun barrels, but I'd say its about 98% complete. 😍
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That was THE GI JOE kit to have. Dusty and his desert buggy were high on the list too. I had the Joe HQ. It was cool, but nowhere near USS Flagg cool.
 
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