OK, now this site is back to normal, from my end anyway, and i see the pictures are too.
Made a 7800' lb pick today of a 6' dia. fiberglass pipe for an underground irrigation canal. I love these weird/unusual type jobs....the original system was all concrete, put in in 1905, once out in the country, now in suburbia so they have to be more sneaky how and where it transits from point A to B. Once I set it in the open trench, the crew inside the tunnel rigged onto it with a "pipe puller", a purpose made grabber that hooked to an electric winch further inside the tunnel, and the crew sucked it in until it mated up with a huge HDPM rubber grommet. This tunnel was 1/2 mile long, between the above ground points, and I got permission to walk into a ways, about 50' was far enough to satisfy my curiosity, if I had wanted to I could have come out 1/2 mile away. This glass pipe is rated for a 100 year life span. I gained some points with the crew, when I told them all the water that feeds this system comes from a fairly small underground spring fed pond about 20 miles way, something I knew from flying over this whole area for decades. The huge gravity flow irrigation systems we have out west are amazing engineering, and fun to check out from the air. No pictures darn it.