hot water tanks

**newattitude** · 07-27-2012, 06:48 PM

I love finding hot water tanks!! The biggest I ever got into my truck was 156# and it had no feet to grab onto, no brass pieces left to grab onto and the aluminum box was also gone. Took me a half hour and a wakeup call to my dad to bring his movers dolly at 1am to strap it to and used that to pick it up into my truck. Lol, no friggin WAY was I gonna drive away from that thing and leave it for someone else. The boards I had kept sliding off the truck so I couldnt use them to slide it up. I can usually get anything into the truck myself (exception are large fridges I need help with those) but for some reason that 156 pounder felt and acted like 300!! At that point I didn't even care if I lost gas on the dang thing, I hate to lose and I wasn't going to let that thing win for someone else to pick up!!! ROF!!!

I look at it this way, its a good truck filler and some pretty decent weight and its at *least* $8.00 I wouldn't have if I didn't get it.

**Mechanic688** · 07-27-2012, 10:20 PM

Originally Posted by newattitude

I love finding hot water tanks!! The biggest I ever got into my truck was 156# and it had no feet to grab onto, no brass pieces left to grab onto and the aluminum box was also gone. Took me a half hour and a wakeup call to my dad to bring his movers dolly at 1am to strap it to and used that to pick it up into my truck. Lol, no friggin WAY was I gonna drive away from that thing and leave it for someone else. The boards I had kept sliding off the truck so I couldnt use them to slide it up. I can usually get anything into the truck myself (exception are large fridges I need help with those) but for some reason that 156 pounder felt and acted like 300!! At that point I didn't even care if I lost gas on the dang thing, I hate to lose and I wasn't going to let that thing win for someone else to pick up!!! ROF!!!

I look at it this way, its a good truck filler and some pretty decent weight and its at *least* $8.00 I wouldn't have if I didn't get it.

It might have been 300 # with all the rust they accumulate inside, I junked mine out of the house when it started leaking. A 40 gal and it was almost half full of rust, took two of us to get it outside.