Swimming Pool O.T.

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DownSouth

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• Jun 10, 2012

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Living just a few miles from the Mexico border, I thought you folks might get a chuckle out of this:

Poor Mexican's Swimming Pool

Rich Mexican's Swimming Pool

 

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GordoSD

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• Jun 10, 2012

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What do you figure that water in the PU weighs?

 

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LAA

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• Jun 10, 2012

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62.4 pounds per cubic foot.

 

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bo

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• Jun 10, 2012

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4'x8'x1' bed =32cu.ft.x 8lbs/cu.ft. =256lbs and if you went 2' deep (which it isn't) then 256x2=512lbs. A lot less than you were thinking it did.

 

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ohiojim

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• Jun 10, 2012

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i think some one forgot that there is over 7 gallons in cubic foot

 

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bo

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• Jun 10, 2012

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oops...that's 7.5 lbs/gallon and about 8 gallons/cubic foot. So...about 62lbs/cubic footX 32 cubic feet =1984 lbs or a ton....that's a big oops. I hate screwing up.

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Jun 10, 2012

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What do you mean poor? You got to have a few bucks to make a swimming pool out of a brand new tire

 

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DownSouth

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• Jun 10, 2012

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D3B, I thought it looked new or near new too but if you see where the water appears to be weeping through the center I would say it has a big gash.......nothing a boot wouldn't fix though!

 

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JerryS

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• Jun 10, 2012

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Imagine the work it took to saw out the bead and sidewall on that tire.

 

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Mike (WA)

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• Jun 10, 2012

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I'll bet they just cut a piece of metal a little bigger diameter than the diameter of the bead, then gooped it up good with silicone and bolted it on. Pour a couple sacks of Sacrete over it to level it up, and you're done.

I made a base for a tetherball pole once, with an auto tire and the top of a barrel- stood a length of pipe the proper size in the middle, poured it full of concrete. Kids played with it a couple times, then lost interest in tetherball, and I finally buried it.

 

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PJH

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• Jun 10, 2012

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And the pipe coming out of the wall comes from where???

I hate to say that my first thought was a drain of some sort. . .

Surely an air conditioner and not a urinal.

 

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PJH

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• Jun 10, 2012

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Darn, I wish I hadn't posted that. It was in poor taste, and I apologize if I offended anyone.

Paul

 

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JerryS

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• Jun 10, 2012

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You may be right, but it looks to me that there's at least a six-inch ring of sidewall missing.

 

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Billy Shafer

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• Jun 10, 2012

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At least they have a pool. All I have is a muddy stock tank.

 

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Dblair

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• Jun 10, 2012

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62.4 pounds per cu ft. = 1996.8 lbs in 32 cu ft.

 

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ShadetreeRet

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• Jun 10, 2012

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Surprising the things you "forget" as time goes by. We did that with my truck several times one summer when the kids were small. Sure was easy to empty when you were done!

 

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JMOR

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• Jun 10, 2012

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(quoted from post at 16:22:43 06/10/12) Darn, I wish I hadn't posted that. It was in poor taste, and I apologize if I offended anyone.

Paul

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idn't offend me! Went swimming in muddy tanks many a time. Just goes to show ya that you don't have to be rich to have a pool & where there is a will there is a way!

 

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Mike (WA)

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• Jun 11, 2012

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You caught me! Perfect example of overlooking the obvious- I was thinking of how they waterproofed the bottom, did't even look at the top.

 

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caterpillar guy

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• Jun 11, 2012

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I thought water was 8lbs to the gallon. I always learned water was a pint a pound. 8 pints in a gallon thus the 8lbs per gallon.