Well my tank arrived today. It is a big, heavy thing to move around without a piece of equipment. 36" diameter and 9 feet long, on a pallet. I had to move it about thirty five feet to get it out of the way of the garage until I am ready to move it into the basement. So, I used the old "Give me a long enough lever and I'll move the world." principle. Is that how that went? Who was it that said that anyway? You guys remember? First I tried to find some pipe that was big enough to roll the pallet across. Didn't have any big enough. Needed something 4-6" in diameter. Next I went and looked through some downed pine that I dropped last year to make way for a fence. Found one the perfect size, 5" across and nice and straight. I fired up the Husqvarna 350 and limbed up and cut 3 sections that were about four feet long. Used a long 2x4 and some short 6x6 blocking (always keep some blocking around) to lift one end at a time. Slowly but surely I got the whole thing up on the three pine rollers and rolled it across the gravel parking lot while moving one roller from back to front. I am not sure what the tank weighs, but it is heavy. It has more plumbing holes than I thought it did. That is a good thing I guess. I will try to get some pictures and dimensions and post them so you folks can give me some plumbing advice. I know we talked about the positive and negatives of verticle and horizontal, but the more I look at it I think I am going to go horizontally. Might not be as good for water movement, but will be close to the boiler this way. Looks like a little over 3 feet away and running parralel to the side of it. Now, do you think it would be better up high horizontally, or down low near the floor? Either way I am going to have to put it on some kind of rack to hold it. The positive thing about it being down next to the floor is I could use the space above it better than the space below it if it were up high. After I insulate it I will enclose it with a frame and plywood. What do you think?
