Posts : 937 Join date : 2009-10-23 Age : 81 Location : Grand Rapids, Michigan
If you use a wet/dry Shop Vac to vacuum the pond, it fills up in a hurry. This allows you to pull a lot more up before having to empty it. We have only used it once and it worked fine but was a bit of a pain to handle as it is so large but does work.
That is an outstanding idea. I can see how well it cold work for even doing quick partial water changes. I would imagine, to drain the 55 gal drum you would turn off the shop vac after turning the valve off. Then take the vac hose out of the water, and lay it down where you want to run the water off to.
Have you thought about putting wheels on the 55 gallon drum so you could move it around and water your gardens with the pond water?
You could even stand this 55 gallon on it's bottum end, and add a PVC pipe inside that would reach down to the bottum which would still allow you to use it inline with your shop vac, and then hall it around on a dolly.
Posts : 937 Join date : 2009-10-23 Age : 81 Location : Grand Rapids, Michigan
Yes, we do use the dolly to haul it. Pete became more into constructing this than we actually use it. LOL. We used it once after he made it and it worked fine and didn't use it last summer.
I really like that idea, and I'm going to take your idea and make one like it. I have the large shop vac, and everything else I see in the picture is redily available locally.
Thank you, I was wondering what the ribbing was for. At first I thought it might be to keep the drum from rolling away. Isn't it funny we often have adapt things to make them to work better?