Build a vacuum transfer system! :-) An old shop vac and some PVC pipe should make it work.
Dave On 2/21/2017 1:56 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
