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Post by sd51555 on Jul 29, 2017 21:10:43 GMT -6
I am helping Green Bay Peter move in to his place in Williston this weekend. I've never been off 94 in most of ND. I was somewhat excited to see some new country, especially ground zero oil country. Not too much to report yet, but I saw a shit load of oil wells and a few gas flares on the way here. None in the dark.
Went to the B-Dubs here and that was an experience. Typical understaffed/low quality folks. They did a nice job, just a tad slow, and very gruff. You can see some of the signs of the boom and bust from big shop operations and other moth balled man camps. I'll try to get some pics on my way home Monday.
I do have to say I'm happy I've got a friend out in Western ND again. Now we've got a jumping off point to do Sakakawea and perhaps finally get back to Fort Peck to do some fishing.
Thank god he was able to get three other guys to help us move his shit in today. He's got a farm auction's worth of shit to move into a two bedroom apt. We got done today, so tomorrow, I'm going with Peter, and three single oil field guys (way too much money) to the gun range to blow stuff up. I thought I was a gun guy, I had no idea the shit these guys were talking. Should be fun!
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Jul 30, 2017 0:40:04 GMT -6
My buddy bought a 2 year old fuel set up out in williston on a online auction a month ago. It had to be close to $50,000-75,000 when put in or more. It had 3-10,000 gallon tanks, 1-5,000, 1-2,000, 2 gas station pumps, full containment dike with membrane, steps to go in and out of the dike and all the piping. He only paid $800 for the whole thing. He went out last week and took it all apart, put it on semi's and brought it back here.
I would say its a bust out there right now. Hope your buddy has a good job.
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Post by sd51555 on Jul 30, 2017 6:18:00 GMT -6
I would say its a bust out there right now. Hope your buddy has a good job. Just when I think I understand the situation out here, something new shows me how little i know. He's a frac tech for Haliburton. They may have done some firing recently that made an opening for him. Another sign that things have eased up out here, he got a two bedroom, two bath apartment, huge garage (it's nice) for $725/mo all utilities included.
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Post by sd51555 on Jul 30, 2017 21:30:12 GMT -6
I don't have enough horsepower to post pics right now, but we got to do some cool shit at the range today:
Belt fed SKS Blackpowder 44 caliber pistol Shot full cans of pop out of a tube on an AR upper and shot down with 12 gauges Plus an assortment of stuff I'd never seen
Should be able to post up a video tomorrow night. Myself and one other of the 5 of us could hit those pop cans for as far and fast as they were going.
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Post by kl9 on Jul 31, 2017 6:29:43 GMT -6
Sounds fun!
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Post by sd51555 on Jul 31, 2017 19:11:56 GMT -6
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Post by nhmountains on Jul 31, 2017 19:31:41 GMT -6
Looks like you guys had fun. Nice looking country out there. Any deer seen?
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Post by sd51555 on Jul 31, 2017 20:20:11 GMT -6
Looks like you guys had fun. Nice looking country out there. Any deer seen? Nothing really. One doe way far off, something that looked like a pheasant, flew like a pheasant, but didn't have tail feathers or pheasant colors. I did see a jackalope doe! That was cool!
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Post by sd51555 on Aug 1, 2017 11:33:51 GMT -6
Got some bonus pics of some of the landscape up there. I knew they grew some different crops out there, but I haven't done the work to ID them yet. Exhibit one Exhibit two You guys know I'm a sweet clover fan. Lots in the ditches and untouched areas. I think wild sunflower is a weed problem in the dakotas, but the bees were working their tail off in this patch. I found this hardy SOB growing in the ditch. Not sure what it is, but it caught my eye and I thought I'd share. High and dry and facing south.
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Post by westbranch on Aug 1, 2017 12:00:02 GMT -6
First one might be flax.
The last one looks like rose hips to me.
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Post by Tooln on Aug 1, 2017 14:43:36 GMT -6
Looks like you had fun shooting. That AR that launches pop cans is cool.
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