A Winching Wench gets Tanked!

HAHAHAHAH, just cracked myself up with that one. 

Some of you may know that we are using rain water for our house. The whole house. We have a well but the water is hard and to purchase a filter for well water over rain water is quite a bit more. Since we have so much rain in the Pacific Northwest as long as we put enough storage in, we will be fine. The only months we might run out is August and September and if we do we can have some delivered. Not a big deal. 

That makes this weekends project moving the water tanks to their final location. Behind the house. First they were delivered to the side yard. With a truck and crane. They each hold about 575 gallons of water. They are HUGE and heavy. You can see Curt peaking our over one of them and he is 6'4".

Then as the house was getting built we moved them over to the front. Again, a crane was involved. I'm up on the roof taking a picture of them.

So you would think that when we need to move them to the back of the house, the final resting place, again you would use a crane. Seems to make sense, wouldn't you think? 

But NO! Curt decides we can do it all our our own using a winch.

And a Wench, (that would be me wishing I was doing something like this instead), and any other fool hardy soul that happened to be at the house. Thank you Mike and Russell.

So began the slow process of moving each tank foot by foot, inch by inch, by pulling with the winch, and pushing. Changing up the ropes each time we had to. As you can see here we are pulling it over from the front to the side of the house. With of course Pippin's supervision.

Next we had to get it around the side of the house. This required all sorts of pipes and plywood and general pushing, shoving and grunting.

It also required me to move up to other trees behind the house with the winch.

Then we had to bet it around a REALLY TIGHT corner, which involved me winching it halfway up the side of the bank. 

Thus creating what we called the Bermuda Triangle, a spot which neither of us could get to to help get the tank in place. But again with a lot of pipes, plywood, some rain....... We finally got them all in place. It only took a day and a half. 

Next they will get hooked up together the filters put in and then covered with dirt and plants. You can see how the roof runs all the way to the back into a gutter system that pours directly into the tanks. 

Here is the roof before the tanks were in place.

And the exciting covered gutters! Ohhhh Awwww.

Ever wonder what the top of Curt's head looks like?