Mother of all Rock/Sand/Salt Orders

[fortheloveofcrabs]

I added a few (very few) pounds last night to the order.

[BlkWolfe]

hmmm...

could always come back through calgary...

make a stop there for the night and unload some rock. see if we could get that extra bit to put us over 450lbs

any calgarians reading this thread interested?

[EmilyB]

I could probably do some...check with AJ_77 he was looking. Maybe you should post in the Calgary forum. If we can make it worthwhile you coming thru here.

[Cap'n]

When would you be showing up in Calgary if you decide on this route?

[BlkWolfe]

i might be pushing back the trip by a week, just to allow some of our fry to grow out a bit more and move them to the big tanks before we disappear for a few days.

anybody have a problem with pickups in calgary the evening of the 30th and pickups in edmonton the afternoon of the 31st? or calgary on the 29th and edmonton on the 30th?

and a question for the more experienced reefers...how would the life on the live rock stand up to these colder temps in a truck bed? the order is getting big enough that we're lookin at taking the big truck and hauling the rock in the open bed.

PS...i need to clear up a couple things before we commit to the extra rock/detour through calgary. hopefully ill know by tomorrow

thanks everybody

[mr_alberta]

Cold temp + live rock = base rock....

[Skimmerking]

Ya , but dont foget about the rock when they fly it out from the lsalsnds in the winter it goes thur customs and all the wait and the flying time in canada
will be supper cool under the plane.

[BlkWolfe]

Ran this by Jeff we both thought this would be the way to go...

Ive got alot of insulation leftover from insulating tanks and racks, got measurements of the rock boxes, so i think im going to end up just making an insulated casing for all the rock boxes in the bed of the truck. That plus heat packs should give us a couple days of warmth

enough people have commited i dont want to cancel this because of the cold

Also, pickup has been moved to the morning of the 29th/30th. depending if friday night or saturday night is a better day for the folks in calgary to meet up with me somewhere and pickup the rock and anything else. We'll overnight in calgary then come into edmonton the afternoon the following day

With the date being moved back, cutoff for LR orders has been lifted. So we're free to keep adding rock orders for another week at least, until Jeff calls me and says no more.

off to the calgary forum

[EmilyB]

It can be -20 by Oct 30. A couple days and you'll have iceberg rock.

[BlkWolfe]

so we just want to call this all off then?