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RockyG666 63M
1747 posts
6/3/2014 1:41 pm

Last Read:
6/4/2014 6:43 am

the swimming hole

i got my$4 ebay tarp in the mail today, bungee corded it to my PVC frame and filled it with water.

IT WORKED!!!!

i never know if these halfbaked ideas i come up with are going to actually work or not. i mean, they can look good on paper and everything, but then in reality they can just fall apart. NOT SO with this one.

IT WORKS!!!

i filled it up with really hot water and just soaked in it for the full hour or so that the sun was hitting me. i have been working on my heliostat and it is almost ready. when i put the helostat in, i should be able to direct sunlight to the pool tub all day. again, i 'should' be able to. i will have to see it work before i am sure.

but this is NICE. even if i can't put the sun on it when i want, i get direct sunlight in my little sliver of a yard from just before noon until almost 1:30. i think i am going to make a habit of taking a nice yard bath in the sun right after lunch.

you can see in the first picture how the sun first only covers half the 'yard' for the first 1/2 hour or so. then it moves and covers the whole thing for about an hour, and then it is the reverse. the left is dark and the right is sun. i put the tub where it seems to get the sun longest.



RockyG666 63M
1357 posts
6/4/2014 6:43 am

no way. i thought of it. it is a city rat swimming pool