schmism
Super Member
Ok so i didnt know what forum to post it under so, i defaulted to hear.
After the closeing of the house and i get to get a few new toys, i asked the CFO what SHE wanted in terms of "large item" toy. (got to keep her happy you know).
She wanted an above ground pool.
OK i said.
So after discussing it (and having found most my items on craigslist) one night i said, ok for S&G's lets see what CL holds for above ground pools...
HOLY COW, like 15 diffrent posts of people nearly giveing away good 2-4 year old pools!
but they good ones moved quick, usually withing a few days of listing. As i had spent hrs searching CL for MY deals, i told her to find the one she wanted and let me know. within a week she had, and nearly local to boot.
WIth the help of a good friend ( icouldnt have done it without him) juile took off work last fri early about 3 and we went to take it down. Still had water in it. in 3 hrs we had it packed up and headed home.
I had helped a neighbor in STL put one up so i figured to uninstall one was the reverse process. (it basicly was)
The day before we had spent the day cleaning out the area of the yard were the pool was to live. (a days project in an of itself) Once cleared off, i couldn't resist digging in the dirt. but not wanting to haul bucket after bucket of dirt half way arosss 2 ackers to my dirt pile, i glanced over and saw my "new" dump truck sitting there.
I figured what better job to break it in on. I didnt have to drive it on the road, and i could see weather or not it would dump a load of material.
Turns out by the time i got done digging about half the area out, i had a full load of wet dirt. (the pics are about 3 buckets shy of when i quit)
having my FEL up in the air before i thought i could reach over a much higher sided truck. but as it turns out, the side height of my truck is about as high as you would want. Techinically i suppose it could be a foot higher but its hard enough to see were you are dumping at that height.
We are planning on setting the 21' pool 6" in the ground which doesnt sound like much, but in reality its a quite a bit of dirt to move. A truckload represents about half of what i need to remove. ~6" deep with an 1" foam board and 1" of sand in the bottom.
so without further ado, the pics (what youve been waiting for)
http://www.snjschmidt.com/pics/05-28-08/DSC03506 (Large).jpg
http://www.snjschmidt.com/pics/05-28-08/DSC03507 (Large).jpg
(before you comment on the 3507 pic, its an optical illusion, the ground slopes downhill to the left, but with all the dirt sitting on the right side of the bed, the bed sits lower uphill, makeing it look level, the axle sits slightly downhill makeing it look like that tire is all tweeked)
what the dump looks like
http://www.snjschmidt.com/pics/05-28-08/DSC03510 (Large).jpg
http://www.snjschmidt.com/pics/05-28-08/DSC03511 (Large).jpg
After the closeing of the house and i get to get a few new toys, i asked the CFO what SHE wanted in terms of "large item" toy. (got to keep her happy you know).
She wanted an above ground pool.
OK i said.
So after discussing it (and having found most my items on craigslist) one night i said, ok for S&G's lets see what CL holds for above ground pools...
HOLY COW, like 15 diffrent posts of people nearly giveing away good 2-4 year old pools!
but they good ones moved quick, usually withing a few days of listing. As i had spent hrs searching CL for MY deals, i told her to find the one she wanted and let me know. within a week she had, and nearly local to boot.
WIth the help of a good friend ( icouldnt have done it without him) juile took off work last fri early about 3 and we went to take it down. Still had water in it. in 3 hrs we had it packed up and headed home.
I had helped a neighbor in STL put one up so i figured to uninstall one was the reverse process. (it basicly was)
The day before we had spent the day cleaning out the area of the yard were the pool was to live. (a days project in an of itself) Once cleared off, i couldn't resist digging in the dirt. but not wanting to haul bucket after bucket of dirt half way arosss 2 ackers to my dirt pile, i glanced over and saw my "new" dump truck sitting there.
I figured what better job to break it in on. I didnt have to drive it on the road, and i could see weather or not it would dump a load of material.
Turns out by the time i got done digging about half the area out, i had a full load of wet dirt. (the pics are about 3 buckets shy of when i quit)
having my FEL up in the air before i thought i could reach over a much higher sided truck. but as it turns out, the side height of my truck is about as high as you would want. Techinically i suppose it could be a foot higher but its hard enough to see were you are dumping at that height.
We are planning on setting the 21' pool 6" in the ground which doesnt sound like much, but in reality its a quite a bit of dirt to move. A truckload represents about half of what i need to remove. ~6" deep with an 1" foam board and 1" of sand in the bottom.
so without further ado, the pics (what youve been waiting for)
http://www.snjschmidt.com/pics/05-28-08/DSC03506 (Large).jpg
http://www.snjschmidt.com/pics/05-28-08/DSC03507 (Large).jpg
(before you comment on the 3507 pic, its an optical illusion, the ground slopes downhill to the left, but with all the dirt sitting on the right side of the bed, the bed sits lower uphill, makeing it look level, the axle sits slightly downhill makeing it look like that tire is all tweeked)
what the dump looks like
http://www.snjschmidt.com/pics/05-28-08/DSC03510 (Large).jpg
http://www.snjschmidt.com/pics/05-28-08/DSC03511 (Large).jpg
