During the middle of May Marco and I (Toyke) had a project to do. This project required that we transport all materials needed from here to a property on Lake Rosevelt. Here we are ready to go all loaded up.
The way we head out to this project takes us over the North cascades Hwy, thru Twisp, Omak,and Nespelem ending at Keller. From here we turn on to a gravel road for 18 miles, then we turn onto a dirt road and it goes on for 17 miles. The last 17 miles we did at less than 10 miles per hour.....It seemed to take forever to get to our destination. Fully loaded it took us 10 1/2 hrs to get there.
Once there we unloaded and began to layout our work. We dug holes then filled the holes 1/2 way with concrete. We did this to save ourselves a day.
Day 2 began with the setting of posts, beams and platform. SWe also built a ramp to the platform in order to get the water tank where it needed to be.
Here we are tank ready to be moved up the ramp to the platform 15' off the ground. 
Early the next morning we started moving the tank up the ramp. This tank weighs just under 1000 lbs and is 8' in diameter and 7.5 feet tall.
When we got the tank near the top the rope started to come off so we had to use some people power to finish getting it into place.
Now that it was in place we had to secure it, attach the water lines and bracing. Later during the day when tank placement was finished we began filling it. When completely full it would hold ose to 20,000 lbs in water weight. today we filled it to just over 3/4s full. About 17,000 lbs.
Everything cleaned up and We are ready to head home.
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