More Skin

We started to once again tangle with the skin. The wind in the spring in southeast Wyoming is not conducive to being outdoors, let alone handling this kind of metal. We were able to struggle against the weather to get the east side completely done.



J channel became an issue due to the number of windows on the south wall of the building. We set up a metal cutting assembly line in the bus and whipped out all the pieces, then fought the wind to put the pieces together.



We turned our attention to the north side since it was sheltered from the wind. Jerron slept in one Saturday morning and Chris and I put on a few sheets. Each was longer than the previous so it was a good gradual re-entry into the wonderful world of ladders after a winter's break.




Percolation Test

One afternoon then the weather was lousy we decided to perform a percolation test. We dug holes to a proscribed standard:



Once dug, we filled the holes with water from a 250 gallon tank that we put in the back of my pickup and hauled the the site. They drained overnight. The following afternoon, I returned and re-filled them, then measred the depth that the water fell every 5 minutes.



The rate at which the water level falls correlates to the capacity of the soil to absorb water. Before we can build a septic system, we need to understand the soil's capacity in this regard.

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