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Pool Cover Woodpile Tarp

RedMF40

RedMF40

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A local swimming pool company gives away the old pool covers when they're replaced. I snagged one since my woodpile is expanding beyond anything I'd anticipated. Probably soon be able to see it from space.

Anyway, the material is VERY heavy-duty, this one weighed in at about 100 lbs. Cuts easily with a good utility blade. After cutting, I got three 12X17 tarps and one smaller remnant, about 6X17. The smaller tarps are easier to handle but of course you can always leave it one big tarp the way it came off the pool. A few small holes here and there but they don't replace pool covers because they're in perfect condition.

Always looking to repurpose stuff and if you live in an area where people have swimming pools this might be a good way to go.

See attached photos. As usual the cats were interested in what I was up to.

Gerrit
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Nice find! I enjoy repurposing stuff too, for tarps I check at the local truck shops. This time of year the grain trailer tarps get pretty beat up and I get the used take-offs for free. Make good landscaping weed barrier under decorative rock as well.
 
(quoted from post at 07:20:45 11/10/22) Nice find! I enjoy repurposing stuff too, for tarps I check at the local truck shops. This time of year the grain trailer tarps get pretty beat up and I get the used take-offs for free. Make good landscaping weed barrier under decorative rock as well.
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How thick are the truck tarps? Better than standard hardware store tarps? I didn't want to spend $$ on those and have them shredded after a short time out in the weather. Gerrit
 
Pretty thick, heavier than any tarp I can buy locally. I've sewn pieces together with a bag sticher with mixed results, but enough to know it takes a powerful needle to get thru two layers. Send me your address and I'll mail you a piece.
 
(quoted from post at 10:20:52 11/10/22) Pretty thick, heavier than any tarp I can buy locally. I've sewn pieces together with a bag sticher with mixed results, but enough to know it takes a powerful needle to get thru two layers. Send me your address and I'll mail you a piece.
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Thanks, but I wasn't looking to buy one of the grain truck tarps. Just wondered about the thickness. I was saying I wouldn't buy a regular hardware store tarp because they are trashed after a season or two. They don't hold up. If you're wondering about the pool cover material, I'll send you a piece. I think it's about as thick as vinyl covering on car seats. Maybe thicker, and it appears to be a mesh. Not too stiff to cover firewood or anything else, though. Thanks again for the offer. Gerrit
 
Most truck tarps be it grain or for machinery hauling are figured by the OZ per square yard. Like 18 or 22 oz per yard. Old trampoline material if goo for under layment for augers and covers for things is rubber or something like that with mesh in it.
 
I have a friend at church who's in the outdoor advertising business and he's gotten me a few out of date flexible billboard ads. Usually about 14'x45' which I cut down to fit over my tractors and mowers. Flexible and thick material that far outlasts the blue or camo tarps you buy at the store. Blue tarps lasted me only several months before the UV rays break them up. The billboard tarps last 4-5 times as long. You can buy the billboard tarps on line if you google that term.
 
Got a couple of those hanging on a doorway to shed. been there for several years now. Best part is they have a loop on each side. If I had one that was 14x45 I would put up a frame then use the loops on the long sides and tie it down over the frame and have a cheap shed. Probably would use a close to 12 12 pitch so water and snow would slide or run off.
 

Are you talking vinyl billboards having loops?

All I have seen, the perimeter edge is folded back and heat welded to for a sleeve for an 1-1/4 inch tube or pipe to slide into.
Have not seen them with loops or grommets.

Don't buy billboard vinyls. they will give them to you for free.
As many as you can haul away. They do not recycle them and have to pay to landfill them.
At least here in central Florida.
 
(quoted from post at 19:42:07 11/10/22) Gerrit,

Looks like it's a cat magnet. GRIN

Very nice nab! The tarps you cut will
come in handy.
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Probably thinking, Oh, so we're getting a pool? They're expensive, you know--gonna have enough left over for cat food?

Typical cats, always have to be front and center when anything new shows up!

Gerrit
 
(quoted from post at 18:45:50 11/10/22)
Are those the safety covers for pools?
They get stretched and anchored so that they can support a small child from getting in the pool?
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I think these are the covers they use to close the pool for the season. Not sure how they're attached, since there are no eyelets or any obvious way to tie it down. Good thing I'm not in the pool business. Gerrit
 
(quoted from post at 15:50:22 11/10/22) I have a friend at church who's in the outdoor advertising business and he's gotten me a few out of date flexible billboard ads. Usually about 14'x45' which I cut down to fit over my tractors and mowers. Flexible and thick material that far outlasts the blue or camo tarps you buy at the store. Blue tarps lasted me only several months before the UV rays break them up. The billboard tarps last 4-5 times as long. You can buy the billboard tarps on line if you google that term.
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I've seen them show up locally a few times as give-aways. Never followed up. If you drive the interstates in Maryland you won't see any billboards. It's one of the states that doesn't allow. Plenty on the other roads, though. Gerrit
 
Agreed. Those used to be called Maco or Loop Lock covers. Attached with springs and could be walked on. Make good dump bed covers, but useless foe wood piles unless you want wet wood.
 

Been raining steadily all day here. Had to go out and look. I lifted the tarp and the wood is bone dry so I'm glad. There's even water puddling on the tarp.

I got concerned because some of the recent comments had me thinking I'd done something stupid with this pool cover tarp idea.
I thought, "Gerrit you corndog you've been bragging all over the internet about your pool cover tarp and it isn't even the right kind!"

So far so good.

Gerrit
 
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