Kitsap Septic

Gil Rocking the KSP logo wear

admin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:52:45 +0000

We have a habit in the Miller family of adopting extra family members. Gil A.K.A Tyler was one of the first adopted Miller bothers; He’s been a member of the family since we started Kitsap Septic way back in the day. Gil has always been a rocker, and a bit of a clown. Recently his band, The Super Geek League, has been booking more and more shows in far off locations. Their last show was in Oakland California and Gil wore is Black KSP hoodie during the rehearsals. SGL had an awesome show, of course. Gil, being the drummer, was a huge part of their successful show. I think he rocked it extra hard because he was wearing the KSP hoodie during rehearsal, but that is only my opinion. Click here to check out more pictures of Gil and SGL in action.

We’re using the below picture of Gil to kick off a new recurring blog theme “Where is the KSP Gear”. Those of us who have KSP logo wear are going to start working on pictures of us wearing the gear in various locations and doing various activates that we think are blog worthy. Like Gil did at his Oakland show. Gil has committed to trying to top himself at all of this shows to come up with something better every time. We can’t wait to see what he does next.

Quick Clothing History

The Kitsap Septic clothing all started 8 or 9 years ago when mom started giving us jackets with the KSP logo on the front and a picture of the trick with the slogan “ Satisfaction Guaranteed or Double your Load Back” on the back. in the beginning mom was giving these as Christmas gifts to immediate family. Then we went to Extended family. Then more people started to ask for it, and we moved on to venders. and friends. As time went on the Logo went on different jackets, shirts, and I think we even made a onsie for a grand baby or two. The next logical step might be to offer KSP logo wear to the general public. I mean who doesn’t want their back to say Satisfaction Guaranteed or Double your Load Back

KSP Fleet Goes all LED

admin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:19:00 +0000

Dad takes better care of our trucks then most people take care of their classic cars. His latest project has been replacing all of the lights on all of the trucks with LED lights. The new lights are much brighter and safer then the old lights, and they require a whole lot less power to operate. Meaning we don’t need relays or bulky wires for the lights anymore. The LED lights also look a great deal shaper on the truck. Dad went way above the minimum required number of lights and went all out adding lights. He even engineered amber driving light bars on the front of the trucks.

New Kenworth for the Fleet

admin — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:27:00 +0000

We replaced our older under powered Ford pumper truck, we called it the little truck, with a brand new, much better powered, Kenworth. The Ford was our little truck rated at less then 40,000 GVW. The GVW is important because at that size you can drive the truck without a CDL. When we originally bought the Ford it was setup as a box truck and we had a tank built and installed on it. The Ford was not very powerful engine wise, and the tank on the back can only hold one job based on the GVW, so we did not use it very often. Kevin used to dive it until he hit the mailbox coming out of the drive way with it.

The Kenworth has plenty of power and it can haul two jobs in the tank with the GVW rating.

Dad loves working on his trucks and moving large objects. He had a blast for a few weeks getting everything setup on the new Kenworth. The finished truck turned out to be a great addition to the Kitsap Septic fleet. The Kenworth has power every thing, heating the works, AC, a quite cab, it’s like driving a real car vs and old school Semi with air powered wipers. Below is a picture of the truck decked out in polished aluminum and a shot of dad with a grin driving the new truck around the compound. The plate on the little truck / the Kenworth is – “PEE-WEE”

Pumping Blake Island

admin — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:31:00 +0000

The sewer district responsible for the onsite sewage system on Blake Island contracted my Father and Brother to come over and pump out a 12,000 gallon tank. To do this they drove to a park on Bainbridge island and backed both trucks onto a barge at the right time. The timing had to be just right with the tides so that the water was deep enough at the launch on both sides of the trip. Once they were loaded the Barge they were hauled over to the island where they pumped out the tanks. After the tanks were pumped they backed back onto the barge and were hauled back to Bainbridge. I guess that the loading going over was not that bad but the loading on the return trip was a bit of a challenge.

The trucks weigh a great deal more when they have 3,000 gallons of "stuff in them". The added weight caused the barge to tilt and move more than it did on the way over. The barge needed to pull out and back in to the shore between the loading of first truck and the second truck because of how the weight made the barge sit and tilt in the water. Once the second truck was loaded the barge started to take on water and was a bit stuck in the mud. Dad was told that sometimes they rock the truck on the barge to get it unstuck. With both trucks taking up the barge deck that was not really an option. Luckily they had a Backhoe on the island that was able to push the barge back out into the water.

They were only able to make one run the first night, and had to wait for the morning to make the next run with the tides. Dad and Ross got up at 4:30am to drive back up to Bainbridge to make the 5:30 push off time of the second run over. Sounds like they had a great time. Next time they go and do it I plan on going over in the seadoo and getting some good shots with the nice Canon camera.

Ross Found a Hole

admin — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:15:00 +0000

Ross was working on a job minding his own business trying to dig something up with the Mini when he backed over a section of earth that caved under him. Ross has been driving heavy equipment since he was he was about 11 years old and Dad bought our first Case 580C backhoe. From what I heard of the story falling into the hole didn’t even phase Ross. It did slow him down a bit because he had to get pictures of what happened. Once he took the pictures and found someone to video tape him getting out he used the Arm and the tracks to pull himself out of the hole and get back to work.

It’s good to have Mini’s

admin — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 23:23:00 +0000

In 2007 we had a big ole snow storm for Christmas that left road covered in snow. The snow did not stop us from playing with our Mini’s; mini being a Mini cooper S, and a 48” wide Mini excavator we sometimes use to dig up tanks. Clint got the mini stuck about 1/4 a mile from the Kitsap Septic Compound in Port Orchard. A stuck car is no problem for the Miller family; We drove the mini excavator up the street and pulled the stuck mini cooper out of the ditch. Below is a picture of the action.