By Annie Brock
To describe the recent installations completed at Thursday Pools, you can modify the saying “it took airplanes, trains and automobiles” into “it took cranes, barges and trucks”.
Jonathan Hendrick, from Hendrick Pool and Lawn Service, McCordsville in Indiana, used a barge recently to deliver five fibreglass swimming pools to backyards along a large lake. The pools were installed in a neighbourhood in Fishers, Indiana. All the houses were located on the edge of Geist Reservoir.
Hendrick says that, after examining the approach, it was much better to bring the boats in from the water than to try to lift them over the large homes, which are located far away from the road.
Deaton’s Waterfront Services is a local barge service that he contacted to find a way to transport these pools into their backyards.
How to use a barge with an excavator
It can be difficult to deliver a pool in some neighbourhoods. This is especially true if you have to close a road or obtain permits. It can be difficult to bring a pool from a backyard that is far away through the front yard and then get it over or around the house.
By using a barge for the delivery of the pools, we only had to use an excavator to lift the pools off the barge into the backyard. Hendrick says that we actually barged the excavation equipment to the site first. It was great to see the pools arrive by boat at these homes. “There were a lot of spectators.”
It was cheaper and prevented any damage to the client’s property.
Other pools have been pulled from rivers and delivered to backyards.
“Fibreglass swimming pools are watertight, and they’re built like sailboats. We also considered pulling them behind a speedboat,”
says Hendrick.
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