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BUWHAHAHAHA just when you thought it was safe to go back into "Tale of the Tank" the paintman returns. Its not like I haven't been working on the tank, I have but just real slowwwwww. I have most of the plumbing done but still can't decide what lights I want. Still leaning towards all t'5s. I...
Now I'll be the first one to admit that I don't come up with alot of good ideas very often but this one worked like a charm!
1,2,3 lift and there ya have it done, call it a day!
Like my ole gran pappy use to say.......you always think better on a full stomach! So after we had lunch I decide to use a few old pallets, and pieces of plywood I had laying around the house, and build me a set of big stairs. This would elevate us to the point where our waists would be at the...
So seeing as how my wife decided to give me 2 beautiful daughters. I had to go out and find me 2 renta sons for the big lift. So with the 2 renta sons, my buddy Dave and myself we made the first attempt at getting the tank into the hole.
Then came the trouble, when we went to lift the tank into...
Well the big day has arrived. We made it home safely yesterday with the tank in one piece, but let it sit in the truck until more muscle was available.
Snug as a bug in a rug!
Well I guess I should put learn how to take picture on my things to do list! Yes my stand is nice and level even though my pics tell us otherwise :o
So anyway heres a couple other pics. first one is of the stand from inside the sump room its kind of hard to see but I Durarocked under the stand...
Soooo as I was saying in one of my earlier posts, when I was doing the work in the basement I framed out my wall and built the stand. Then I just sheetrocked over the opening until I was ready for the tank. Fast forward one year and this is what you end up with after 5 minutes with a utility...
Instead of an old barn beam under the granite I was thinking about using an old ships wheel I bounght from a salvage yard. maybe put the wheel in the middle and then 2 old corbels on each side. Anybody got some other ideas????
Hey thanks codfather but I beat you to your idea....When I built my bar I wanted to surround the whiskey barrels with something that made them look like they were being stored in a rack. So I bought some eight 1/4 stock and spent about 2 hours tossing it down my paved driveway, beating it with...