Creating a Lake

[dancer]

Of course, Mother Nature doesn't have much respect for engineering -- good or otherwise. We had an 80-year-old pond that was lost in a few hours to a crawfish hole probably about a foot under the waterline.

 

[Renze]

Renze, That calculation did not include a small boy with a well practiced finger did it?

Great example. It also reminds me how disappointed I was when the USA didn't get with the metric program and stayed with the crap we inherited from the nobles of England.

No, it didnt include the boy...

I know, the metric system is a lot easier, it doesnt just depend on what you're used to... the metric system has a factor 10 between every unit. My cousins in Canada could remember that 1 meter is 10 decimeter is 100 centimeter is 1000 mm is 10.000 micrometer.
they could remember that within minutes when i told them, but when i asked them about the imperial system, they had to think a minute before they could tell me that 1 yard is 3 feet, a feet is 12 inches etcetera...

the metric system is invented by the French and i mean to remember that Napoleon prescribed the metric system to all his occupant countries (including the netherlands at that time) I think for the metric system being French, was the main reason that the English nobles didnt adopt it....

Well Adolf ****** started to build national highways through Germany, to move troops quickly through the country but also to get the unemployed to work on the highways, which was, next to blaming ethnic minorities (the jews, gypsies, black people, disabled, gays) a key to his popularity.

Usually a war gives a great tehnological impuls for the region, technologies that used to be too expensive for the commercial market are developed to ripeness and produced cheap for the military because war means life or death so it doenst matter if it makes economically sense.

the metric system, national highways, the internet, were all made available from the military need for them.

Oh by the way, some say that ****** created the Volkswagen, but that isnt exactly true: Because ****** put so much pressure on Ferdinand Porsche, Porsche had no choice but to steal the concept his best friend Hans Ledwinka (working at the Czech Tatra works) had, which he had discussed with his friend Porsche.
Porsche broke over 20 Tatra patents, and the law suit that resulted from that, was discontinued after ****** occupied Czechia and confiscated all patents.

In 1961 VW payd a sum of 1 million Reichsmark to Tatra. Off course this is nothing more than a tip, for the 25 million Beetles that have been built untill recently.


hmmm i think we're getting a bit off Eddies original topic...

 

[Renze]

Dung, i mislead us...

i said that 500 kg of water pressure against 1 cm of dam length (at a height of 10 meter) means 5 ton per meter of dam length.. 5 ton is 5000 kg which means that i forgot a zero... against every linear meter of 10 m high dam, a sideway force is applied of 500 ton.... with a weight of dirt of 1,5 ton per m3, the dam would have 333 cubic meters of dirt per meter length, to hold the 10 meters of water. This would theoretically be a sloped dam of 10 meters high and 66 meters wide in an exact triangular shape.

 

[KentT]

So, Eddie -- is it looking like it'll be filled by Christmas? We haven't seen many pics lately...

 

[EddieWalker]

So, Eddie -- is it looking like it'll be filled by Christmas? We haven't seen many pics lately...

For the last couple days I can't keep the pump running. It starts right up, but I'm lucky if it runs for a few hours. Sometimes it's only a few minutes. I've changed the oil even though it was still clear.

Two things might be the problem. The spark plug wire seems kind of loose. It will start right up without me touching the wire and it will keep running when I play with it.

The other thing is that the fuel filter is almost empty. I took it off and fuel flowed through it real fast and easy. I'm wondering what's going on from the line after the fuel filter and the carburator.

Anybody else have any thoughts?

The lake is a good 3 feet from being full. If I have to quite, I'm ok with what I have, but another foot sure would be nice. hahaha

Thanks,
Eddie

 

[Glowplug]

Eddie--You may have just flat-out worked that pump into submission. It's probably just tired!

 

[wushaw]

Float sticking in carburetor on the fuel flow problem.
Broken plug wire ...just keep wiggling it the break will show up soon enough

 

[ronjhall]

Two things might be the problem. The spark plug wire seems kind of loose. It will start right up without me touching the wire and it will keep running when I play with it.

The other thing is that the fuel filter is almost empty. I took it off and fuel flowed through it real fast and easy. I'm wondering what's going on from the line after the fuel filter and the carburetor.

Anybody else have any thoughts?

Thanks,
Eddie

If its the oil level switch, just jumper around it. Do the same with on/off (may need open circuit to run) switch.
Maybe dirt from blazer tank in pump tank. Remove and clean tank to get dirt out.

 

[Tim_in_IA]

Eddie I need a lake picture fix. Are ya still pumping?

 

[weldingisfun]

I'm with Tim in IA. A great Christmas present for all of us would be to see your lake on Christmas morning.
I've only been with TBN for a few days but I went back and read every thread. It was addictive and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I'm about 200 miles SW of you and am tempted to come on up and see the lake for myself. Maybe I'll get lucky and meet you in person, Eddie. I sort of feel that I know you already.
Thanks for letting us enjoy your project and Merry Christmas to you and yours.