"enigma" wrote
"brooklyn1" wrote:

Don't really need fiberglass septic tanks for collecting rain
water for irrigation.

of course not, but a damaged fiberglass septic tank is a hell of a
lot cheaper than a poly tank!

Punctured tires are a hell of a lot cheaper too. But service stations sell
hardly used repaired tires regularly for nearly the price of new. My
neighbor got a flat last week on a trip back from Montreal and decided to
buy a repaired hardly used tire on a rim to replace the stupid donut....
still paid $70 for a repaired tire and rim when it would have cost $70 for a
new tire with no rim. She now has two repaired tires and no stupid donut...
and she got lucky that the service station in the middle of the Adirondacks
had a rim with repaired tire to fit. She did the smart thing, I wouldn't
drive a car with a donut for a spare.

I doubt there is a ready supply of cracked fiberglass tanks for free. Just
because someone claims to have acquired a couple in no way means everyone
can. And actually fiberglass vessels are produced by layering fiberglasss
cloth and resin over a form ... so anyone dealing in that market would
repair a cracked tank better than new and sell it as new, because unless it
were used to contain some sort of contaminants that couldn't be removed in
fact it would be new, better than new. Brand new fiberglass hulled water
craft accidently fracture in transport all the time, they are easily
repaired and sold as new, a fiberglass patch, like a weld, is stronger than
new. Corvette automobile bodies are very often damaged in transit, they are
easily repaired and the patch is stronger than new. I have a very difficult
time believing that a seller of fiberglass septic tanks would give them away
rather than repair the cracks. Just because someone happened to be in the
right place at the right time and got lucky doesn't mean everyone can rely
on glomming onto cracked fiberglass tanks.

And I don't know why anyone would need more than 100 gallon tank to collect
rain water for watering some plants around ones abode, and that's more of a
head trip than a real money saver. Anyone who lives where they can keep say
a 1000 gallon tank filled with rain water doesn't really need to be
collecting rain water if it rains that much. This entire concept of
collecting rain water in huge tanks where it hardly rains is really pretty
silly... the point of diminishing returns is reached at about 100 gallons,
probably more like a 55 gallon drum... begins to cost more to transfer and
haul than to turn on the hose bib. When there's a need for large quantities
of water for commercial purposes in arid climes they drill a well. No one
is going to maintain a lawn in say Las Vegas with collected rain water no
matter a 5,000 gallon tank, a lawn will drink up water in the desert faster
than it rains.