This is Turtle.

I know i've been asking too many questions but i'm fixing up a camp on a Lake in
the Swamp to use for fishing and Cook Up's for friends and it has run down a
good bit and needs a little of everything.

i have a water pump system that is feed by a artesian well feeding a big tank.
The water comes out of the ground through a 2" pipe just rammed in the sand
about 12 feet down and then dug out around it about 2 feet on all sides and
poured concrete in the hole around it and makes the water come up the pipe and
go into the tank. You don't have to pump the water out of the ground for it just
flow up and in the tank with nothing but just a pipe. i have timed it and
measured the water flow and it is flowing at a rate of a little over 1 gallon
per minute. Now I had a tank and pump hooked up to a old sheet metal tank to
pump from but the tank just rusted apart and i need a new one. Yes i know the
Tightwad coming out in me. i called about another sheet metal tank or a plastic
tank of 200 to 300 gallons and found they cost about $270.00 to $400.00. This is
just a camp and i don't live there and only use it maybe 1 or 2 day a month and
need just a holding tank to hold water. If we can come up with a plain jane tank
to hold the water I can have my sheet metal man make me a cover. I talk to my
sheet metal man about making me a tank and he said it would run over $200.00 to
make one because the metal had to be atleast a 18 ga. metal used. He could make
it out of 22 ga. but it may fail because of duriablity.

So What could a fellow use as a tank that would cost less than $200.00 to use as
the water tank for nothing but storing water with no pressure or holes in it for
all the pipes can feed from the top and sucxk out of the top with a pipe down to
the bottom of the tank. I have looked at water tank for watering cattle but they
are long and narrow and the 150 gal. would be all that would fit in the pump
shed which measures 85" X 85" and i need 40" on one side to have the pump and
pump pressure tank in that area which i need 40" X 85" to put the pump &
Pressure Tank in. So I have a space of 45" X 85" to fit the holding tank in and
the highth would have to be less than 6 feet 9 inches high.

I have talked to a farm supply store near here [ 40 miles away ] and he was
checking on a prefab tank made for this application but he has not back with me
as to price or do they still make them. Yes I have thought about 6 Plastic oil
55 gal. or chemical drums piped together but it gets too much of a nightmare to
try to put together in the area allowed.

Is there something in this world that would work in the place of a $250.00 sheet
metal tank made to order or am I going to have to bite the bullet and buy a tank
?

TURTLE