dodge man
Super Star Member
We put in a swimming pool a couple of years ago, and it was kind of a high effort thing to fill it, it holds around 19,000 gallons. You don't have to drain it every winter, but you do have to draw it down quit a bit. So in the spring I have to fill it back up to the top, which is maybe 3000 gallons.
Here is the question, I'm trying to come up with the best way to fill it. We have a good well, but the water is hard and doesn't work as well in the swimming pool, plus I would like to save the wear and tear on the pump. We were suppose to get a rural watermain in front of our house but the project got delayed so any solution I use will be short term until we get the watermain. In the past I have hauled around 250 gallons in a tank in the back of my half ton truck from our city waterplant which has a fill station. The problem is this seems hard on the truck with that much weight and it takes alot of trips. I have a trailer and I could borrow more and larger tanks, but the problem is my driveway. Its about 600 feet long, and has a circle turn around at the house, but the turnaround is so tight I can barely make it in my truck without a trailer. I could back down the driveway but its fairly narrow and has some curves, so I know I would be all over the lawn with my trailer. I could unload the water and just back the trailer up and into the lawn to turn around, but once again, it would leave some ruts. My BX2350 will tow the trailer empty, which is a 7000lb 18 foot car hauler, and make the turnaround pretty easy, but it would be a pain to unhook it from the truck, hook it to the tractor every time, and then hook it back up.
Any ideas on an easier way to do this? I can just do it the way I have in the past which isn't the worst thing in the world, I'm just looking for a way to use the trailer and cut down on the trips.
Here is the question, I'm trying to come up with the best way to fill it. We have a good well, but the water is hard and doesn't work as well in the swimming pool, plus I would like to save the wear and tear on the pump. We were suppose to get a rural watermain in front of our house but the project got delayed so any solution I use will be short term until we get the watermain. In the past I have hauled around 250 gallons in a tank in the back of my half ton truck from our city waterplant which has a fill station. The problem is this seems hard on the truck with that much weight and it takes alot of trips. I have a trailer and I could borrow more and larger tanks, but the problem is my driveway. Its about 600 feet long, and has a circle turn around at the house, but the turnaround is so tight I can barely make it in my truck without a trailer. I could back down the driveway but its fairly narrow and has some curves, so I know I would be all over the lawn with my trailer. I could unload the water and just back the trailer up and into the lawn to turn around, but once again, it would leave some ruts. My BX2350 will tow the trailer empty, which is a 7000lb 18 foot car hauler, and make the turnaround pretty easy, but it would be a pain to unhook it from the truck, hook it to the tractor every time, and then hook it back up.
Any ideas on an easier way to do this? I can just do it the way I have in the past which isn't the worst thing in the world, I'm just looking for a way to use the trailer and cut down on the trips.
