Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My M9 budget went out the window when my wife backed our rental car into our friends VW Jetta scrapping up both doors, rear quarter, and runner. Not having any auto insurance I expect the cost to be quite high. :'( At 03:14 PM 8/13/2009, you wrote: >My M9 budget went out of the window too. > >Our family chariot, a 1999 Volvo V70XC has a broken frame, and it is >likely totalled, as the cost of repair is greater than what an >equivalent car is worth. > >http://kiisaka.smugmug.com/gallery/9247055_nzvVd > >A few years ago, a landslide wiped out my budget for a Hamburg >Steinway D concert grand piano. :( > >Life is like that. > >On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Richard Man<richard.lists at gmail.com> >wrote: > > I can attest to the jackhammer part :-) Man, this soil is tough > (but fertile). > > > > I guess at least Joseph Eichler didn't save money that way. > > > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Brian > Reid<reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote: > >> > >>> So what you really had was a leach field with no septic tank... > >> > >> No. The soil around here is red clay that is so hard you need a > >> jackhammer > >> to dig into it. A 7-inch void in the red clay was a perfectly fine > >> wastewater pipe. It would have held pressure to 15 or 20PSI. The > problem was > >> that when I installed a sprinkler system in 1982, the water attracted > >> the > >> attention of the neighbor's redwood tree, and its roots eventually > >> penetrated the hard clay and blocked the "sewer line". > > > > -- > > // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com > > // w: http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/Portfolio09/ blog: > > http://rfman.wordpress.com > > // book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/745963 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > >-- >Ken Iisaka >first name at last name dot org or com > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information