Buster’s Gate, Laredo, TX - Oct 12 - 18

Buster’s Gate, Ladero, TX - Thursday, October 12, 2017
Morning 66 Degrees, Wind W calm, Humidity 77%, cloudy.
Afternoon 88 Degrees, Wind  at  to  Mph, Humidity 48%, partly sunny.

Slow traffic morning workers are just busy in at the well. We are not having a lot of “sales” vehicles showing up to sell their company’s services. Other well drilling sites there was a continus flow of vehicles coming in and trying to sell the company something. Some it was almost no “pitch time” as most of the time they were on site was spent driving in to the “company trailer” and returning back to the gate.

Buster’s Gate, Laredo, TX - Friday, October 13, 2017
Morning 73 Degrees, Wind S at 1 to 3 Mph, Humidity 100%, mostly cloudy.
Afternoon 92 Degrees, Wind SSW at 5 to 8 Mph, Humidity 51%, partly sunny.

Much slower day today other than the daily shift change vehicles in and out water tankers bringing in liquid for the drilling Mud. They are now hauling out drilling spoils so there are large dump trucks hauling that off site. Those trucks are emitting an oder, they do not smell nice.


Buster’s Gate, Laredo, TX - Monday, October 16, 2017
Morning 62 Degrees, Wind NNW at 5 to 8 Mph, Humidity 64%, partly sunny.
Afternoon 78 Degrees, Wind NNW at 11 to 21 Mph, Humidity 29%, partly sunny.

Gifted with BBQ from McBee’s in Pleasanton, a vendor catered meals to the crew here at the well site and on the way out we were given BBQ brisket dinners, nice treat. Meant more as we know the McBee’s BBQ from Pleasanton and Jourdenton, Texas.


Buster’s Gate, Laredo, TX - Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Morning 54 Degrees, Wind WNW at 1 to 2 Mph, Humidity 84%, sunny.
Afternoon 82 Degrees, Wind NNE at 3 to 7 Mph, Humidity 26%, partly sunny.

Dall Ram Goat alert, mid morning a truck comes to go out the gate with this goat following it. During the rig move in days I was leaving the gates open during the daylight hours. After the rig move was complete I have been closing the gates after every vehicle. Actually only opening only one gate unless a tractor trailer came in I was opening two gates. The latching part was not aligning properly so I was using a rope to  keep the gate closed as it wanted to swing open. No the goat arrived and was in the gate area for more than three hours wandering the area around Buster and the generator trailer and walked up the roads but continued “looking” to make an exit. He was looking out to the dirt road up and down the fence line. He finally went up the road on Buster’s passenger side.

Latter snail mail arrived with our coordinator. I comented about the goat hanging here at the gate attempting to exit. With the gate not latching it was a problem and he called for a maintenance company to adjust the gate.

I spent most of the evening sorting thru our mail delivery, priority checks. We had two refund checks and payments from our Northrup Grumman insurance that refunds my payments to medicare supplemental insurance and the prescription plan for me.


Buster’s Gate, Laredo, TX - Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Morning 60 Degrees, Wind SE at 1 to 2 Mph, Humidity 92%, mostly sunny.
Afternoon 84 Degrees, Wind SE at 6 to 12 Mph, Humidity 32%, mostly sunny.

Road on Buster's passengers side

Continued sorting thru the mail delivery today. Late afternoon maintenance arrived and got the gate adjustment that was all. I was also looking for them to have a welder and weld the gate pin to the other gate. We are making do until I go shopping getting some worm clamps that I can clamp the pin to the other gate. In some way every gate site has d orignal operation unique to that location. Here I was happy that first Saturday when the welder came and installed the expanded metal to the cattle guard to allow safe walking to the gate latch. And even more happy he installed a pin to keep one gate in position when the other gate opened. At the time I did not realize he put the pin on the wrong gate. As gate people we want the gates to open in as the vehicles pull up looking for access to the well site. If they open out the vehicle has to backup for the gate to open. The way the gate latch here works the right gate (coming in) has to open first or you have to move that for the lock plate to pass behind the right gate. Most vehicles arriving at the gate only need one gate to enter.