At the time I was looking for a place to hide my new filter the idea of it being in the shop rather than in the room next to the pond was suggested.
There is a guy I have been asking pond questions to and he has a great pond with the filters in a different room, ( see his pond at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBx682QTLoM ) so I knew I wanted to have the filters in with the car.
But there is not a lot of room to set things out that safe from my wife running over them with her car....
My new filter means a lot to me and the fact is I would not leave a bag of dirt next to where she parks with the way she drives....
So thats why I have my filters up and out of the way so High up.
As for the shelves being able to handle the weight once the water is turned on?
The filters dont really hold much water in then even when turned on.
If you look at the first photo below you can see the main barrel filter's drain is just a few inches off the bottom of the barrel, so Im thinking that it's less than 3 gal in there.
The tower has only a small amount of trapped water at any one time.
And I also made a plywood shelf that sits on top of the metal shelf and so all the future weight of the filter is not actually pushing down on the metal shelf but rather the weight is pushing down on the up and down metal shelf supports where there is more strength.
The metal shelves are also screwed to the wall 2x4s so nothing can bend or move at all.
Im betting it will work,,,
and I have no back-up plan anyway so lets all hope for the best.
There is a guy I have been asking pond questions to and he has a great pond with the filters in a different room, ( see his pond at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBx682QTLoM ) so I knew I wanted to have the filters in with the car.
But there is not a lot of room to set things out that safe from my wife running over them with her car....
My new filter means a lot to me and the fact is I would not leave a bag of dirt next to where she parks with the way she drives....
So thats why I have my filters up and out of the way so High up.
As for the shelves being able to handle the weight once the water is turned on?
The filters dont really hold much water in then even when turned on.
If you look at the first photo below you can see the main barrel filter's drain is just a few inches off the bottom of the barrel, so Im thinking that it's less than 3 gal in there.
The tower has only a small amount of trapped water at any one time.
And I also made a plywood shelf that sits on top of the metal shelf and so all the future weight of the filter is not actually pushing down on the metal shelf but rather the weight is pushing down on the up and down metal shelf supports where there is more strength.
The metal shelves are also screwed to the wall 2x4s so nothing can bend or move at all.
Im betting it will work,,,
and I have no back-up plan anyway so lets all hope for the best.
