Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Yay! A Tank!

Here it is! We got the tank in! It wasn't that bad either. After we got it set, they filled it full of liquid nitrogen (photo on bottom) and you can see the frost that formed on the bottom of the tank. It is 1500 liters, which is almost 400 gallons. It weighs one ton empty and a lot heavier full! It is completely harmless and totally okay to touch, and it is extremely noisy when it is filled! I mean EXTREMELY noisy!  The pipes you see go out to a box that is on the outside of the building where they will pull a truck up to it and fill it. For a couple months we will have a smaller tank, about 230 liters, that we will wheel around because we are having special tubes made to transfer the liquid nitrogen from this larger tank to the counter where we add it to the cream. But it will still have an awesome effect. Thursday they are supposed to start on the floors (I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't happen until Friday though) and then it will really look official! We have all the painting done (as you can see) and just have some touch-ups to do. Tomorrow we are going to stain trim and then put it up after the floors are finished. If everything goes well, we will be making ice cream at the shelley spud day saturday the 20th, so if you are going, look for us! 

2 comments:

Roxanne said...

hey ben, it is happening isn't it? I am so proud of you. You haven't had a lot of support, and you still keep smiling. This is going to work, and you and dad will look back and be very proud and pleased with all you have done. Holli, you are awesome. Ben is very lucky and blessed to have you in his life. We love you very much.

Roxanne said...

just so everyone knows the above comment and this one are from mickey. i dont' know how dannys name got there. but then if everyone hasn't figured out by now, i don't do compt. very well. i am sure danny won't be upset to see his name, cause he knows also how awesome his big bro and sister are. ( he just puts up with his mom)