Continuing the story of how I acquired Greg's Tank:

        On Saturday January 26th 2008, Lydia Schiemer, Linda Close, Tom Close, a friend of Greg's (Joe) and I gathered together and began dismantling the tank.  At this point I had no intention of keeping the tank, we were just going to store it in the barn I have on my property so that it didn't get smashed.


Here are some pictures of the tank before we began











The steal stand on cinder blocks

More Pictures

Here is Joe on the left and me on the right sizing it up and planing our attack.



Here we marked everything out for ease of reassembly








There's Toms hands in the shadows beginning to cut some silicone away.

Here is a picture of the tool that Joe brought with him to cut through the silicone.  Basically it is two handles with a thin cable inbetween. 


Seen here is Joe and I sawing through the silicone






As you can see we got the top off without much trouble at all.

Here is a picture of Tom and Joe cutting away at the left side


As you can see the far side is off and the tank is all braced and we are ready to begin cutting away the right side


Boy-O-Boy this was a real heart break.  As we tried to cut away the right side the back broke.  Here is Tom putting some duct tape on the broken edge to make it safe to handle.


Here is a picture of Linda documenting the break.


Here we cut through the silicone holding the rear overflow on and the nasty, rancid water came rushing out.  Here is Lydia Schiemer helping out.


Here is a picture of us cleaning up the mess


Here is the empty stand


and here is the truck all loaded up and ready to go.

So the tank sat just like that for a 1 1/2 years in my barn waiting for the calling.  In July of 09 I got a call my my good friend Rich Durso that he was moving to Virginia and he was not taking the tank with him, he wanted me to have his 180.  So in August of 09 I began moving his live stock to some temp holding tanks in my garage.   At that point it was time to start to implement the plan I have been brewing up in my head for nearly two years.  First step was to ask Linda if I could have the tank since rightfully it was still hers.  She was thrilled with the idea that this tank with so much history was going to see water again.

Construction begins:

First step was to set up for the equipment room.  In the corner of my garage (adjacent to the tank) was where I woud build an 8x10 room to house all the equptiment.
Now to clean out this corner


Here is the corner all cleaned out

This is exciting...I can't wait to see more  

Thanks for finding the tread and tagging along!

Friday night I cut up the concrete in preparation for the slop sink in the equipment room.  I will also install a floor drain for over spill.  I have decided to change directions and add a garage floor drain where the water actually collects in the garage.

Its great to work for a company that tools like this.

Here is a picture of the concrete all cut out and ready to start laying pipe.  As you can see I cut the concrete all the way to the wall.  On the other side of this wall is where the hot tub used to be located and that is where I will pick up my water feed.  In the morning I’m off to Home Depot.

Saturday, we dug out the gravel under the concrete, laid the pipe and backfill the gravel.  Here is a picture of my BIG helpers.

Here is a picture of the phase 1 complete

Sunday,  I pulled out some of my old equiptment and got it all cleaned up.

Here is a picture of some of my toys.

Here is a picture of my sump.  72x24x20

Here is a picture of the tank that I will be moving some of the livestock in temporally.  I replace the bottom with a piece of corian when I blew out the bottom trying to drill tempered glass.

Here is a picture of the rear overflow that I installed.  Also made out of corian.

This Weekend I started the stand and here are some pictures of the tank stand under way

Progress shot

all corners have been laped for strenth

Stand was leveled with a lazer level

Everything has been glued and screwed