Yeah I' can almost safely say that I have recovered . However you never completely get over these things. unless they cut out the bad and replace but then you have to take those pharma concoctions for the rest of your life. I have to take a couple of pills once a day for at least a full year some docs have said 6 months, but will do the year to appease the cardio folks. Why my arteries were 95% blocked was and so far as I know is still a mystery to them since there was no plaque or hardening or fatty deposits No determinable proof that life style has contributed. They don't like that my heart rate never elevates above 60 no matter how strenuous they try to do a stress test but my BP always remains in the 130 over 55 range Which doesn't mean beans to me because I've never monitored it.
I do have 1 more minor artery with a 45% reduction, not enough to be concerned with he said.
In constructing a water tower the most important thing to remember is 8.345 lbs per gallon
the way I have braced my tower and the footing it stands on will easily support a much larger storage tank than I would ever want to place on top of it.
Our water tower we had when I was a kid was made out of redwood & Cyprus it was an 8 ft diameter 10 ft tall tank resting on top of a tower made of 6 15 ft long 6x6 timbers braced with rods and turnbuckles built in 1906 still holds water today or it did the last time I saw it about 4 years ago.
My well is also around 60 feet It is sanded in really bad so I need to either pump about a 1000 gallons of water down it at a high rate of flow by dropping a 2" poly pipe to the bottom and pumping the water down with a 2 or 3 inch gasoline powered pump or blow it with 300 CFM air pressure. I have both the pump and the air compressor so could do either of both. Which according to the well driller who says he has done it to this well many years ago when it got to the point of only producing 1GPM. He told me that I should be able to expect it to produce 20 GPM for about 10 years again. This will probably be this winter's project. then I plan on not having a pressure tank on it but constructing another tower at the well. The well is 450 feet from my current tower.the ground level is also about 15 feet lower than the ground level where my tower now sits.
I haven't decided which way I want to go with this.
Do I want to build a 35 ft tall tower and place a 100 gallon tank on top of it. install a pump at the well to fill the tank on solar & batteries or run it on the already available 220 line currently there. or leave the 80 gallon pressure tank in the pump house with a bottom hole pressure pump. There was a huge pile of burned out pumps on the property so the previous owners had to replace their pump several times over the years due to the sand.
I would like to limit the well to around 40 gallons per hour with an on time of not more than 10 minutes at a time By doing this and having a 100 gallon storage at the well I can run the water slowly through the 300 lb filters may even put 1 at the well for the water to pass through before it goes into the storage tank. but if I did that then the pump would have to be capable of the higher restriction of passing through the filter.
Doable since the added restriction would be similar to that of a 250 or 300 ft deep well whether it is to a pressure tank or to a tower above if to a tower then I could actually gravity feed to the house tower.
BY the way this is what I insulated the tower with.