Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Dropped off my load this morning then went to pick up my next load.  It was only 9 miles away over near Nellis Air Force Base.  They were doing a lot of flying today.  F-15s and F-16s taking off right over my head.  Really cool!!!  Really LOUD too!!!

Las Vegas is building a new waste water treatment facility.  They are running the pipe underground.  72 inch pipe from Nellis AFB and 80 inch pipe from Las Vegas feed the facility.  They hired this company from Wisconsin to tunnel underground and insert the pipes. They used tunnel boring machines (TBMs) to do this. The ones used are smaller versions of the ones you see on TV boring huge tunnels.  Anyway,the job is finished now and all their equipment is being shipped back to Wisconsin. I am taking two shipping containers with hydraulic pumps and equipment for the TBM.  Also taking a huge steel "push ring" back.