Just checking your thread for progress & had a few more thoughts so I figured I'd share them with you. I don't know enough about the grain bins strength & stability to be able to say one way or the other whether you need any additional support structure for it. Based on the pics someone linked, they look very very strong! Way tougher than your average poop wall. When I started shopping for a pool I was only able to get to a few places with displays (I live in the sticks lol) and I was really surprised at how weak some of the walls I felt seemed. An installer was setting up a display and I was asking about his opinions since he's been doing them for 25 years. He took his foot and tapped rather gently on the pool he was filling and it flopped in like Bologna lol so I was like ekkk! When I felt of it, it was so thin I thought how's that gonna hold water? So when I ordered my pool the main reason I got the one I did is buz of the corrugation of the wall. It feels much sturdier than the others I saw with little to no corrugation. Does that mean mine won't flap like a flag when I go to put it up? Nope, but I hope it doesn't lol
Anyway, all that is to say those grain bins look very capable but I had some thoughts on how you could provide a bit of structure with little effort & expense. If you were inclined to do so.
First find you some inexpensive replacement parts, I'd suggest the bottom rail/track with the vertical support plates (i think that's what they're called) to put your wall in. And the top stabilizer rails at the very least. Then you could use pressure treated 4x4/fence posts/whatever else that would perform the same kinda job to do uprights & the top rail. I know I'm suggesting wood & wood and water don't play nicely together so be sure to seal the heck outta any that you use. And probably still plan on replacing them once in awhile. That way you'd have all the basic support elements. That like I said, I'm not sure if you need when using grain bins lol I just think having a few uprights would be a good idea to stave off any catastrophic wall failure that could potentially happen if the wall couldn't support that much water weight, yikes that's alot of weight lol
Other than that, I think another posters suggestion of using cable to wrap it sounds like an excellent idea. Though I'd still want the bottom track & stabilizer rails just so you set your wall correctly.
I'm going to have to figure out the whole electrical thing to, so we're in the same boat there. I really don't want to hire an electrician I think there's only 2 in the whole county and they charge very high prices for the simplest of tasks so I'd prefer to do it myself lol
K I'll stop rambling now, best of luck. I hope the weather clears soon for you so you can continue. I've got the same problem here, the ground is almost a swamp from all the rain so I can't start digging yet. Bummer!
Anyway, all that is to say those grain bins look very capable but I had some thoughts on how you could provide a bit of structure with little effort & expense. If you were inclined to do so.
First find you some inexpensive replacement parts, I'd suggest the bottom rail/track with the vertical support plates (i think that's what they're called) to put your wall in. And the top stabilizer rails at the very least. Then you could use pressure treated 4x4/fence posts/whatever else that would perform the same kinda job to do uprights & the top rail. I know I'm suggesting wood & wood and water don't play nicely together so be sure to seal the heck outta any that you use. And probably still plan on replacing them once in awhile. That way you'd have all the basic support elements. That like I said, I'm not sure if you need when using grain bins lol I just think having a few uprights would be a good idea to stave off any catastrophic wall failure that could potentially happen if the wall couldn't support that much water weight, yikes that's alot of weight lol
Other than that, I think another posters suggestion of using cable to wrap it sounds like an excellent idea. Though I'd still want the bottom track & stabilizer rails just so you set your wall correctly.
I'm going to have to figure out the whole electrical thing to, so we're in the same boat there. I really don't want to hire an electrician I think there's only 2 in the whole county and they charge very high prices for the simplest of tasks so I'd prefer to do it myself lol
K I'll stop rambling now, best of luck. I hope the weather clears soon for you so you can continue. I've got the same problem here, the ground is almost a swamp from all the rain so I can't start digging yet. Bummer!