On Tuesday 21 February 2017 00:42:10 Gregg Eshelman wrote: > If you have a basement window and the softener is in the open, you > have a way to fill it without lugging the salt bags so far. Make a > salt chute from some ABS drain pipe and funnel it in through a window. > :) Then all you have to move in and out of the house is the > lightweight plastic pipe, which could be fit together in sections. If > you can't get enough slope to the top of the softener, drop it down to > a bin and use a scoop, or a miniaturized copy of a grain auger to fill > it. > Now theres a thought, my next invention. :) However, we've built over all but 2 of the basement windows, and they are 30 feet and a corner to get there in one swell foop. But a salt bin container could be placed under the window, to be refilled occasionally, and bucket it from there to the salt tank. Problem is the window is a tilt in at the top and lift to remove version. Bit of a pita to open for trash ejection or salt input. It has been considered though. So has an overhead trolley from one of those windows but they don't turn corners well. Humm, trackage and trolleys I have, and I could make a hole in that wall that would let me pour a 5 gallon bucket at a time into the tank. Talk about Rube Goldberg though... :)
We've also considered getting a hoe in to dig us an old fashioned basement entry with the sloped upper doors so we could get out in the event of a fire that blocked the stairs. But it never got done. :( > > > From: Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 8:34 AM > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] [OT] Wife is good to go > > On Monday 20 February 2017 00:37:19 Erik Christiansen wrote: > > It is possible that being a farm girl from the time when they loaded > > sheaves onto wagons with a pitchfork has given her the stamina, but > > ISTR you're cast in a similar mould. > > Chuckle. I'd like to think so, but I've not been that good to me over > the years, and that pick up 200 lbs & walk it across town if it needs > to go attitude has caught up with me, darnit. The Missus, w/o > mentioning why, had me disable our water softener about 3 years ago. > We can afford the salt. But I think she wanted to remove the struggle > of me handling 2 to 4 40lb bags of salt thru the house & down a flight > of stairs when it needed refilled. And while I won't claim I can cast > nails out of it, it is a little hard. OTOH, the human body needs the > trace elements in hard water. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >-------- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's > most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
