Just saw this and was thinking the same.
I heard they upgraded the shipment and sent him a larger sized tank. 5x2x2, 150 gallons.
In the mean time, this is an excellent opportunity to invest in a diversified guinea bird portfolio.
The Vultrine Guinea bird
The Crested Emo Guinea bird
And turkeys, because I guess they like to pal around
Nope not dead, you guys aren't getting rid of me that easy. They ended up calling in a Wrecker (large salvage) to come and winch him out. He was buried down to the gearboxes. He actually would have been fine had he not pulled up that last 6 feet. My driveway is hard packed, but backing out onto the dirt road could have put him in a ditch. I opted to have him pull up along side where the grapes used to be as I know it's semi solid over there. He opted to keep going forward and got himself next to my garden which sees no equipment or vehicles what so ever. IIRC we've had about 5" in the last week and a half so it was pretty wet.
In the second picture you can see where the hose is, that's where he should have stopped. As soon as he got out towards the garden and my shooting range it was toast. Needless to say I'm waiting to hear back from FedEx about how they plan to handle the damage to the yard.
The Good News is, upon initial inspection the tank looked good enough to sign for and have him unload. I honestly haven't had a chance to go any further with it then that and it's still sitting on the back carport half wrapped. Was busy with that truck Monday (we tried digging him out and boards, but no luck). Tuesday I had to go into the clinic to start working on price adjustments for next year. Tomorrow morning I have a dentist appointment first thing, but I MIGHT get time to work some more on the stand. I really hate these short fall days. Hoping to have the tank wet by Sunday morning.
First I have to:
-finish new stand
-fill pool in my room with tank water and transfer livestock
-remove old tank, sump and stand
-remove old carpet
-add concrete board, tile and grout
-build out stand in place (too big to go through the doors in one piece)
-get tank in place, leak tested, plumbed....etc
-get SW made
-rinse and add the sand, rescape with some new rock combined with ALL the old
-make sure all systems are working
-make new salt water, add to tank, dose some NO3 and PO4 so they're not 0
Then I can add the critters back.
Good thing this weekend's college football slate is garbage.
Nope not dead, you guys aren't getting rid of me that easy. They ended up calling in a Wrecker (large salvage) to come and winch him out. He was buried down to the gearboxes. He actually would have been fine had he not pulled up that last 6 feet. My driveway is hard packed, but backing out onto the dirt road could have put him in a ditch. I opted to have him pull up along side where the grapes used to be as I know it's semi solid over there. He opted to keep going forward and got himself next to my garden which sees no equipment or vehicles what so ever. IIRC we've had about 5" in the last week and a half so it was pretty wet.
In the second picture you can see where the hose is, that's where he should have stopped. As soon as he got out towards the garden and my shooting range it was toast. Needless to say I'm waiting to hear back from FedEx about how they plan to handle the damage to the yard.
The Good News is, upon initial inspection the tank looked good enough to sign for and have him unload. I honestly haven't had a chance to go any further with it then that and it's still sitting on the back carport half wrapped. Was busy with that truck Monday (we tried digging him out and boards, but no luck). Tuesday I had to go into the clinic to start working on price adjustments for next year. Tomorrow morning I have a dentist appointment first thing, but I MIGHT get time to work some more on the stand. I really hate these short fall days. Hoping to have the tank wet by Sunday morning.
First I have to:
-finish new stand
-fill pool in my room with tank water and transfer livestock
-remove old tank, sump and stand
-remove old carpet
-add concrete board, tile and grout
-build out stand in place (too big to go through the doors in one piece)
-get tank in place, leak tested, plumbed....etc
-get SW made
-rinse and add the sand, rescape with some new rock combined with ALL the old
-make sure all systems are working
-make new salt water, add to tank, dose some NO3 and PO4 so they're not 0
Then I can add the critters back.
Good thing this weekend's college football slate is garbage.
