RISING FROM THE ASHES
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Topic: RISING FROM THE ASHES
Posted By: AC Mel
Subject: RISING FROM THE ASHES
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2018 at 11:16am
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Ok...got busy and didn't get this posted earlier. Got rid of the government agencies and was finally able to backfill and compact...this was a couple of months ago.   My soils engineer wanted it ripped both ways before compacting back.   It kind of went like this as we brought it along   Had to do several lifts...the last one looked like this    The final approved version looked like this.  So as I said that was several months ago. We had to wait for the building permit to be approved and some better weather....our contractor also had other projects going. So this was one week ago starting at 5:30 AM The cement crew of 10 or 12 guys was subed out by our contractor and came with the pumper truck...they did a super job. FYI when the first person showed up at 5:30..the dog and I left on the 4wheeler to change irrigation pipe....wanted no part of the cement pour! my wife took all the pictures.       As I said the cement was a week ago...So as of last night at sundown it looked like this.....  BUT WAIT!!! Lets put it in more perspective... Here's the AC BBQ...still in service..same place. Thought I should just start a new post for the transition from burned to new construction.  Here's a link to the "center of hell" post for those who didn't read it. http://www.allischalmers.com/forum/been-to-the-center-of-hell-and-lived-to-talk-about_topic144145.html" rel="nofollow - http://www.allischalmers.com/forum/been-to-the-center-of-hell-and-lived-to-talk-about_topic144145.html
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Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2018 at 1:49pm
| How deep's the crawl space Mel? Looks great! |
Posted By: AC Mel
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2018 at 2:29pm
| Dave... It must be 2'..you can see it in front of the BBQ pit. Everyone knows that I don't plan on going under there.LOL |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2018 at 3:15pm
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Mel glad to see progress being made on your house. Tom
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Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2018 at 12:57am
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Yup, good to see you moving forward. Looks like you will be in your new house before the one year anniversary of loosing the old place. Hopefully life will calm down from now! ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: Ian Beale
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2018 at 1:58am
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Saying from South African rangelands Professor Scott "There is no such thing as the status quo. The only status ids the status fluctatus" But I reckon Mel could take a bit less fluctatus for a while.
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Posted By: Tad Wicks
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2018 at 10:32am
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Mel, Gosh you have a pretty location, what a view, just amazing how mother nature can begin repairing the damage and start all over again. What's all that yella iron doin there??? I am sure glad to see that things are moving forward for you. Best of luck Tad |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2018 at 10:35pm
| Sure looking good. Hoping you never have to do it again! |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2018 at 7:39am
| Thanks for the up-date, Mel. I've been kind of wondering about how things were going for you. Looks like there's not going to be a basement under the house. Is that something of your own personal preference, or just something that is not done in your neck of the woods...? Someday I hope to get far enough ahead to put up a new house, and have been debating basement/no basement for years, if the new house ever happens. My reasoning for no basement is that I am just plain sick and tired of stairs, and having a basement be nothing but a "catch all." My argument for a basement, and I think this argument is going to win, is that I about freak out during nasty thunderstorms (they tend to produce tornadoes) and I want to be able to head down to a corner in a basement and sleep without fear. Darrel |
Posted By: Steve in NJ
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2018 at 8:50am
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Well, if there's no basement... you put up a big giant barn!! Yeah, that's it! LOL! Glad to see things are lookin' up for ya Mel & the Mrs. ! Steve@B&B ------------- 39'RC, 43'WC, 48'B, 49'G, 50'WF, 65 Big 10, 67'B-110, 75'716H, 2-620's, & a Motorhead wife |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2018 at 12:58am
| WOW! thanks for the pics Mel! I was beginning to thunks that maybe to drove over your camera or something! I missed seeing you on here! glad it's coming along for you and like Tom says....hope this will be the last time to have to do this! I really did thunks you might puts a fall out shelter under there... |
Posted By: AC Mel
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2018 at 2:34pm
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Thanks guys for the nice comments....no there is no basement...haven't had a tornado yet....never had an 80 MPH fire either...so we'll see Here's what it looked looked like this morning  The trusses won't be ready till mid July...do to there backlog...framing will be done in several days.
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Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2018 at 2:57pm
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What changed, when I was on here a couple days ago the pictures opened today none of them open Tom
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Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2018 at 3:46pm
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something musta hickup'd on your machine, all loaded fine here! Looking good Mel! |
Posted By: jerbob
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2018 at 5:05am
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You and your wife are definitely "Phoenix's". Rising from the ashes anew. Congratulations ------------- HD16DC, Bobcat 863 Turbo, Oliver 1855, John Deere 855, |
Posted By: Bob D. (La)
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2018 at 5:20am
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Thanks for the updates and pics Mel. You have been through one tough situation. Though not complete you are well on the way to seeing the end of this long road. God Bless. ------------- When you find yourself in a hole,PUT DOWN THE SHOVEL!!! |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2018 at 3:16pm
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Yes and sure hope them fire out there are way far off this time. Tom
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Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2018 at 5:30am
| Mel, you're not burning up out there again, are you? Keep reading about wild fires in northern California. Darrel |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2018 at 11:48am
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Chances are he will not have any fire worries for 5 to 10 years. Yes the dry grass can and will burn every year,but the short brush the fire folks call chaparral is what makes the heat to more or less cause spontaneus combustion of buildings. The first 5 to 10 years after a fire the chaparral will be small and very able to live and grow on the small amount of rain we normally get. But after it gets bigger it will die back and start getting more and more dry tinder just waiting for a chance to burn. Add in tree limbs that fall and trees that have had there time and die or fall you get the inferno that we are known for. It is surprising how much it can take to get a fire started in this brush if the dry tinder has not had a chance to build up for years. A very good reason to have more controlled burns in favorable weather conditions. The fire control agencies have come around to embrace this so now the air pollution people are doing there best to stop control burns. So major fires will continue to make big news for many more years. Of course when dealing with nature there is no guarantee that man can really control anything so always danger in a controlled burn as well that will make people afraid.
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Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2018 at 4:22pm
| Could have only figured the Misguided Tree Huggers were at the bottom of the issue. Cannot do control burns so tinder builds and builds then once a fire starts Katie Bar the Door!! |
Posted By: AC Mel
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2018 at 11:33pm
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Yep, Rays got it right on....and it sounds like Dave's got it figured out too. Darrel, we are about an hour away from both of these fires...lots of brush to burn too...we turned down assignments for both of them for water trucks and our dozer. Just to much going on after our own last year fires. Going to Or. to look at a feller buncher to do a logging job on our burned timber. I'll keep you posted LOL |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2018 at 8:02am
| We have those type twits here too Mel, just not as populated! They cry everytime a Conservation Dept. burn occurs, "Air Pollution" "Damage to Nature" and so on, never come back after to see wild flowers blooming or the seeds that require fire heat to crack the husks sprouting or the harmful insects cleaned off by it as ticks and fleas, that would be giving into the reality of fire being a necessity. |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2018 at 8:07am
| Thanks for checking in and giving us a report, Mel. Good luck with the logging project. Some pictures of that project would be kind of cool, too. Darrel |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 06 Jul 2018 at 2:29am
| yep...I wanna see pics of that feller/buncher! glad yer coming along with the new house good. I do thinks it's to small for ya tho! but prolly feel like a mansion after being in the trailer! |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 26 Jul 2018 at 1:47pm
| Sure been a spell since MEL posted hope he's ok and them fires out there are keep there distance. |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 26 Jul 2018 at 11:14pm
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I think the roof trusses should have been delivered by now too, maybe too busy supervising to post! ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2018 at 1:10am
| shucks...he's prolly on vacation! |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2018 at 12:17am
| talk to us MEL....we all is worried about ya! |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2018 at 8:48pm
| Sounds like he's gonna be having a lot of fun. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 03 Aug 2018 at 10:36am
| wonder where the hot tub will be in his new house? |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 05 Aug 2018 at 4:58pm
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Was just on this page: http://www.fire.ca.gov/general/firemaps" rel="nofollow - http://www.fire.ca.gov/general/firemaps Shows Two fires active due East and SE of Mel, he MAY be rather busy right now. |
Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 05 Aug 2018 at 8:05pm
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Maybe Mel Gotta raise funds to raise a house...? ------------- He who says there is no evil has already deceived himself The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that." |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2018 at 12:31am
| raise or raze? |
Posted By: jbtaglio
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2018 at 4:12am
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Mel is, and has been, on the "River" fire with his D5 for the last week. It is mostly in Lake County, about 30 miles south-east from his house. He has been very busy saving structures and constructing fire line. |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2018 at 7:48am
| Thanks for that update, Darrel |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2018 at 2:05pm
| Prayer for Mel and all the fire fighters out there. |
Posted By: jerbob
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2018 at 2:29pm
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God bless you and your family Mel. May he keep you and all others safe in his arms. ------------- HD16DC, Bobcat 863 Turbo, Oliver 1855, John Deere 855, |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2018 at 11:44pm
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I'm glad Mel and family are able to help but I'm sure they would rather be doing other work. Stay out of danger Mel! ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 12 Aug 2018 at 10:50pm
| MEL….we all need to know if ya'll are still o-k out there! |
Posted By: jbtaglio
Date Posted: 13 Aug 2018 at 3:20am
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Talked to Mel yesterday at his house (in progress). He is fine, working 12 hour shifts (7-7) on his D5, doing rehabilitation work on the "River" Fire, east and north of Hopland, CA. He is helping repair and return to more natural landscape the dozer lines and brush piles constructed during fire suppression work. He will probably be there for another week or so. |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 13 Aug 2018 at 3:16pm
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At least he isn't in great danger near a fire, just normal danger working on hills. Earning funds to support his Allis vice! ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2018 at 10:25pm
| thanks JB |
Posted By: truckerfarmer
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2018 at 10:04pm
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Been a couple weeks now. Mel still out chasin flames? ------------- Looking at the past to see the future. '53 WD, '53 WD45, WD snap coupler field cultivator, #53 plow,'53 HD5B dozer Duct tape.... Can't fix stupidity. But will muffle the sound of it! |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2018 at 5:13am
| me thinks he likes sniffing that diesel and wood smoke! |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2018 at 6:13am
| Maybe we all going to have to go visit Mel. I think he has enough allis crawlers that we could each hop on one and go help him out, ya know, to kind of speed the reclamation process up. Course, it may be faster to let him do it himself, that way he doesn't have to run around and re-do what us rookies would screw up. Any way, it's getting high time for you to report in with us Mel. We all worried about ya. Darrel |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2018 at 6:19am
| NO doubt Darrel!! |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2018 at 2:14pm
| man….I thinks Darrel is right, I thinks we ALL could have a good time at Mel's place (til we gits caught)! |
Posted By: JoeO(CMO)
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2018 at 3:27am
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Thanks for the map kink, helps me locating different fires on the map. I didn't realize there are so many. ------------- |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2018 at 12:11am
| MEL…..hows yer house coming along? we all wanna hear from you buddy! |
Posted By: AC Mel
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2018 at 10:53pm
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Sorry guys, got real busy for the last 6 months. The house is coming along real nice. probably be painting inside and out next week. One of the holdups might be a mason to do the brick work for the wood stove. Hell...it might be ready for the fire anniversary date of Oct 9. Of course I'm not superstitious (LOL) but I'll probably park both of our water trucks in the area for the next several weeks or until it starts raining.    We have some garden boxes with maters,qukes,squash  And we got a 6' Tractor Supply rooster with a wheelbarrow to greet you.  Gots lots more to report but not now. The feller buncher is in the yard ready to log. And for Shameless we have new 47 year hats coming.......maybe he'll feel more comfortable with one of those for a picture...LOL
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Posted By: truckerfarmer
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2018 at 8:04am
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Good to see you back Mel. Was getting a little worried. Love that porch. ------------- Looking at the past to see the future. '53 WD, '53 WD45, WD snap coupler field cultivator, #53 plow,'53 HD5B dozer Duct tape.... Can't fix stupidity. But will muffle the sound of it! |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2018 at 8:33am
| Nice to hear and SEE all the good coming down in your life Mel!! |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2018 at 8:52am
| Thanks for the report Mel. Keep em coming! Darrel |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2018 at 2:39pm
| Glad to hear your doing well and house is coming along great. Be safe |
Posted By: Reindeer
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2018 at 4:35pm
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Great to see the progress on your home. Nothing more disruptive than losing one. Hope you get many years of enjoyment out of the new digs. ------------- |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2018 at 10:28pm
| Dang That porch is one of my dreams to have. Big old 3 story home I grew up in had 1 sorta like that. Congrats on the progress. I'm thinking we'd sure like to see some pictures of that there feller buncher. We gots some 20 year olds that can do that around here, I'm a hoping to see some of them next 2 weekends. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2018 at 11:47pm
| whew! thanks for coming back to us Mel! me and lots others was worried about ya! that's a nice "lean to" on the house! lol, room to park mini AC dozers? my old lady....oooops….I mean the loving wife saw one of them big ole roosters at TSC too, it's still there, I figgered someone would steal it if we put it out front here! I might need a new hat soon, I have the others safe in the fifth wheel and wear them when camping! your place is taking shape and looks good so far! still looking forward for more pics. and also want to see yer feller/buncher! |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2018 at 12:39am
| Mel...I could stand for a pic all nekkid, and hang that new hat on the peg in front of me! would that werk for a pic? |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2018 at 3:33pm
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HA HA that peg won't even hold a hat |
Posted By: jerbob
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2018 at 3:51pm
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Beautiful property Mel. So happy for you and your family that you are making this great progress. thank you for keeping us all in the loop on your status and progress. Be safe and God Bless you and your family. ------------- HD16DC, Bobcat 863 Turbo, Oliver 1855, John Deere 855, |