"The Gate" Batesville, Texas Oct 31

Sunday, October 27, 2013

"The Gate" Batesville, Texas 65 degrees and partly cloudy - humid to 89 degrees and partly sunny. It was bright broken clouds all day.

A smaller number of contractor and welder trucks today, so there will be time for NFL football and NASCAR short track racing from Martinsville, VA.

Monday, October 28, 2013

"The Gate" Batesville, Texas 69 degrees and mostly cloudy to 84 degrees and partly sunny. Foggy misty morning clearing mid morning.

They are back in force today welder trucks installing piping and contractors installing tanks and electric control equipment. On another location the preparation for caliche that will come in on Wednesday and Thursday about one hundred and thirty loads each day. There are other locations and smaller projects being accomplished at the locations.

Monday, October 28, 2013

"The Gate" Batesville, Texas 69 degrees and mostly cloudy to 84 degrees and partly sunny. Foggy misty morning clearing mid morning.

They are back in force today welder trucks installing piping and contractors installing tanks and electric control equipment. On another location the preparation for caliche that will come in on Wednesday and Thursday about one hundred and thirty loads each day. There are other locations and smaller projects being accomplished there.

Thursday, October 31, 2013

"The Gate" Batesville, Texas 67 degrees and mostly cloudy to 82 degrees and mostly sunny. Rain over night here only enough to wet everything.

More of the belly dump trucks for the second day, along with the other crude oil trucks pickup trucks with large welder mounted on the back and contractor trucks.




　 

"The Gate" Batesville, Texas Oct 30

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

"The Gate" Batesville, Texas 75 degrees and mostly cloudy and muggy to 88 degrees and partly sunny and humid. Rain forecast for the over night

We are bust here at the gate this week just a Happy Halloween post.

“The Gate” Batesville, Texas Oct 24 25 26

Thursday, October 24, 2013

"The Gate" Batesville, Texas 53 degrees and partly sunny to 80 degrees and sunny.

A busy day with caliche belly dump trucks bringing in the dirt and rock for the pad base for a new pad. That was only for half a day. Then the work started on another pad installing tanks that were delivered last Friday. Welders and equipment they need on one ton dully pickup trucks today about ten of them with contractors and parts delivery trucks. These guys come early and stay late. Pipelines are being added to another pad to have that oil flow to these new tanks.

One of the belly dump trucks

Friday, October 25, 20130

"The Gate" Batesville, Texas 60 degrees and partly sunny to 82 degrees and sunny.

We are done with the caliche belly dump trucks bringing in the dirt and rock for a while until the third run starts next week. Today a larger number of welders one ton dully pickup trucks today with contractors and parts delivery trucks. Then backhoe and other off road construction equipment, busy early and late with this work.

Sunset behind Buster

Saturday, October 26, 2013

"The Gate" Batesville, Texas 67 degrees and cloudy misty morning to 82 degrees and mostly sunny.

Just contractor and welder trucks today I learned they will be about a week installing the pipelines and tanks. Bonnie was up early to watch the Florida State football game today so I went to the store for grub. Wash dust off the car and gasoline was $ 3.04 in Pearsall, TX.
 

“The Gate” Batesville, Texas Oct 22 23

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

"The Gate" Batesville, Texas 64 degrees and partly cloudy to 78 degrees and mostly sunny.

The regular in’s and out’s were down today but the belly dump trucks were here bringing in dirt and rock to a new pad site. The quantity and rate was lower then the last pad build and then I had a bulldozer being transported in on a lowboy trailer, the driver said "the dozer on site broke down". Well that answers the slow rate of belly dump trucks today. One of the crude oil tank trucks broke down on the road coming down to Buster a mechanic came in a pickup truck and got him going after a half an hour. With the second bulldozer on site the belly dump trucks started coming again, so we ended the day with about fifty trucks plus the regular traffic. Bonnie had to drive to Cotulla for a drug test today.

Belly dump truck

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

"The Gate" Batesville, Texas 53 degrees and partly sunny to 82 degrees and mostly sunny.

It was my turn for the drug test today. We both went early and came back to work for me and to sleep for Bonnie. She took the short end of this both days as she had to stay up longer both days as she was minding the gate while I was away today, a busy day with the caliche belly dump trucks bringing in the dirt and rock for the pad base. The only good part is night traffic is low at this gate.
 

“The Gate” Batesville, Texas Oct 19 20 & 21

Saturday, October 19 2013

"The Gate" Batesville, Texas 61 degrees and mostly cloudy and humid to 81 degrees and mostly sunny. The sun came out, yea.

The water transfer is complete and the crews are braking and moving hoses and equipment out. Any other traffic was normal daily in’s and out’s of tank and pickup trucks. We had a nice variety of college football games to watch today.

Sunday, October 20, 2013

"The Gate" Batesville, Texas 51 degrees and mostly sunny to 78 degrees and mostly sunny. A cool morning clouded up for a while mid day but came back to mostly sunny.

Choices to make football or NASCAR Talladega. Record one and watch one you guess which was live.

Pretty sunset

Monday, October 21, 2013

"The Gate" Batesville, Texas 69 degrees and mostly cloudy to 82 degrees and mostly sunny.

A busy day with the water transfer trucks removing the transfer and pumping equipment. Tanker trucks hauling out crude oil. The construction crew advised me there will be belly dump trucks for the next two days bringing in dirt and rocks for one new pad.

“The Gate” Batesville, Texas Oct 17 & 18

Thursday, October 17, 2013

"The Gate" Batesville, Texas 65 degrees and partly cloudy to 79 degrees and mostly sunny.

Nothing exciting today here at the gate just the regular ten oil trucks hauling out oil and a few water removal trucks. There is a crew coming in and out that is pumping water from the pond to another ranch that is drilling or fracking a well. Then there are pickups coming in for the construction of two more pad sites.

Moon coming up

Friday, October 18, 2013

"The Gate" Batesville, Texas 67 degrees and mostly cloudy to 80 degrees and mostly cloudy. Never saw the sun today, it did become brighter but no bright sunshine today.

Bonnie and I needed to get supplies and have decided to get an ATT air card for the computer and Nook and that ment going to Uvalde. Besides the food stores there offer a larger selection as compared to Pearsall. Where Pearsall is a Walmart and Uvalde is a large supercenter even the H-E-B is larger there.


  

“The Gate” Batesville, Texas Oct 14 -16

Monday, October 14, 2013

"The Gate" Batesville, Texas 73 degrees and cloudy and humid to 86 degrees and partly sunny. Almost seven and one half inches of rain measured in the local area here in the previous twenty-four hours. Buster is ok on this spot, no high water on this location. The water coming down the road is directed off to the side before it can collect here where Buster is parked.

Streams of water coming down the road edges

Even with all the rain and the dirt roads trucks started arriving early to begin their workday. The dirt road to the gate is six point eight miles with some really muddy places that on Friday were just dust and today it is soupy mud. From the gate to the pads are up to 3.5 miles more.

One water removal tank truck got stuck inside at a pad location needing to be pulled out of the mud. Other than that no incidents on the ranch.

Before this rain I cut a relief or this puddle would be bigger

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

"The Gate" Batesville, Texas 77 degrees and cloudy and humid to 91 degrees and partly cloudy.

Nothing exciting today just an average amount if in and out traffic. After dark water for Buster and diesel for the generator was delivered. "Weather" is moving in over night rain and colder forecast for tomorrow.

Sunset in the west looking over the water tank

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

"The Gate" Batesville, Texas 62 degrees and cloudy and raining enough to keep everything wet to 69 degrees and mostly sunny. The heavy rain that was forecast for southwest Texas has stayed north of us with flooding forecast in the area being lifted early.

Sunset in the southeast

Nothing exciting today, just the normal inns and outs. I powered up the computer that
was giving me problems the other day and things are working normal. Thank goodness for that. Working with Vista and some of the older programs is a drag. Even this computed is behind the times as windows eight is already a mature operating system and this is windows seven.