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[lambdacoug]

You joined the board about 16 months too late, I could have sent some business your way.

Welcome, my missionary trainer was from Missouri do you know him? His name is Chad Morales.

I had a friend by that name while growing up (in MO). He was a big kid, and a few years younger than me, that'd put him in the mission field about 15-ish years ago.

[wuapinmon]

BYUMizzou, please answer the following question, but consider your response carefully, as our future dealings on this site may depend, in large part, on how you respond to this:

You mentioned me dating your wife, while I have no romantic interests in your wife, judging by your six kids and love of the Cardinals, I'm guessing that she graduated high school between 1985-1987. 1989! A number, another summer in which I had no fear of a black planet just the black days of another wretched Braves season with Rick Mahler, Zane Smith, and Tom Glavine trying their best to win hopeless games. Then came 1991. Let the good times roll. The Cardinals old LONNIE EFFING SMITH pulled up at second and the Twins one. LAPD pulled over Rodney King and proceeded to kick the shit out of him on film. There was nothing sublime about the videos of people being pulled out of their cars and beaten on April 29, 1992 when there was a riot on the streets. So, tell me, where we you?

[BYUMizzou]

BYUMizzou, please answer the following question, but consider your response carefully, as our future dealings on this site may depend, in large part, on how you respond to this:

You mentioned me dating your wife, while I have no romantic interests in your wife, judging by your six kids and love of the Cardinals, I'm guessing that she graduated high school between 1985-1987. 1989! A number, another summer in which I had no fear of a black planet just the black days of another wretched Braves season with Rick Mahler, Zane Smith, and Tom Glavine trying their best to win hopeless games. Then came 1991. Let the good times roll. The Cardinals old LONNIE EFFING SMITH pulled up at second and the Twins one. LAPD pulled over Rodney King and proceeded to kick the shit out of him on film. There was nothing sublime about the videos of people being pulled out of their cars and beaten on April 29, 1992 when there was a riot on the streets. So, tell me, where we you?

My wife actually graduated from HS in 1992. On April 29, 1992, I had just completed my freshman year at BYU. I, fortunately, managed to figure out how to wear a long t-shirt and unbutton the top button of my shorts and slide them down a little bit so that the bottom of my shorts reached my knees so that I could pass through the hallowed gates of the testing center and complete my finals.

After completing my finals, I returned home to Colorado, where my dad (who always had a firm belief in apocalyptic destruction) immediately put my brother and I to work hand digging a well in our back yard so that we would always have a ready source of water. He marked off a 6' X 6' square, gave us a pick and some shovels, and told us to start digging. He paid us $30 per cubic yard of dirt dug.

By the end of the summer, we had the well to 42 feet and a good source of water. As we dug, we built a wooden lining to shore up the walls. We spent the last few weeks of the summer building a second lining inside the well and hand-mixing concrete and pouring concrete walls between the two linings. I would say that it probably took about 10 weeks of actually digging to hit 42 feet. The digging was much faster in the beginning because we didn't have to use a crane to haul the dirt out of the well.

So, to answer your question, on April 29, 1992, I was probably somewhere between 2 to 3 feet into digging a well in my parents' yard.

[creekster]

Not that this matters to anyone, but my second child was born on April 29, 1992. This has more than once helped me remeber the date of both the riots and that child's birthday.

[Indy Coug]

Not that this matters to anyone, but my second child was born on April 29, 1992. This has more than once helped me remeber the date of both the riots and that child's birthday.

Your monkey picture needs to have more gray in it.

[wuapinmon]

My wife actually graduated from HS in 1992. On April 29, 1992, I had just completed my freshman year at BYU. I, fortunately, managed to figure out how to wear a long t-shirt and unbutton the top button of my shorts and slide them down a little bit so that the bottom of my shorts reached my knees so that I could pass through the hallowed gates of the testing center and complete my finals.

After completing my finals, I returned home to Colorado, where my dad (who always had a firm belief in apocalyptic destruction) immediately put my brother and I to work hand digging a well in our back yard so that we would always have a ready source of water. He marked off a 6' X 6' square, gave us a pick and some shovels, and told us to start digging. He paid us $30 per cubic yard of dirt dug.

By the end of the summer, we had the well to 42 feet and a good source of water. As we dug, we built a wooden lining to shore up the walls. We spent the last few weeks of the summer building a second lining inside the well and hand-mixing concrete and pouring concrete walls between the two linings. I would say that it probably took about 10 weeks of actually digging to hit 42 feet. The digging was much faster in the beginning because we didn't have to use a crane to haul the dirt out of the well.

So, to answer your question, on April 29, 1992, I was probably somewhere between 2 to 3 feet into digging a well in my parents' yard.

We shall be great friends, Dig Dug.

[Indy Coug]

How much does it cost for a DIY 42 foot well?

[BYUMizzou]

How much does it cost for a DIY 42 foot well?

If you can find slave labor willing to dig at $30/cu yard, about $1,680 for the digging. The cost of the cement & sand and gravel for the concrete plus the wood for the concrete forms probably set my parents back several thousand dollars. My dad probably spent $10,000 building the crane with an electric hoist that would lift the dirt out and then spin around and deposit the dirt in the back of a pickup.

All told, you could probably have one dug for about $20,000. Or you could hire someone to drill one for about $2000, including the pump.

[risicam]

If you can find slave labor willing to dig at $30/cu yard, about $1,680 for the digging. The cost of the cement & sand and gravel for the concrete plus the wood for the concrete forms probably set my parents back several thousand dollars. My dad probably spent $10,000 building the crane with an electric hoist that would lift the dirt out and then spin around and deposit the dirt in the back of a pickup.

All told, you could probably have one dug for about $20,000. Or you could hire someone to drill one for about $2000, including the pump.

Seems a heck of a lot easier to have someone drill it...

[wuapinmon]

Seems a heck of a lot easier to have someone drill it...

Snicker. Snicker

[BYUMizzou]

Seems a heck of a lot easier to have someone drill it...

But then you wouldn't have a concrete encased 42 foot deep underground bunker to hide out in when the nuclear bombs start to fall.

[risicam]

Snicker. Snicker

I was wondering how long it would take someone to laugh. Thanks for not disappointing.

[risicam]

But then you wouldn't have a concrete encased 42 foot deep underground bunker to hide out in when the nuclear bombs start to fall.

THAT is true. But you really think they'll hit MO?

[creekster]

But then you wouldn't have a concrete encased 42 foot deep underground bunker to hide out in when the nuclear bombs start to fall.

The choice between dying in a nuclear holocaust and surviving becomes a little closer if surviving menas standing beck deep in a hand dug well while everythign else dies around you.

Don't worry if this post went by too fast, there are plenty more cheery thoughts where this comes from!

[Omaha 680]

Missouri has the Stealth Bomber Wing, so there's that.

Edit: in response to Risicam