50 cents a bag at walmart for pool salt. Its fineer than rock salt obviously. Would this do the trick? I know it may be too fine for the spreader but hard to beat 50 cent a bag
Pool salt any good as ice melt?
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I'd buy it all and use it for walks.
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Are you suggesting that my spreader has had issues in the past?
I'm trying something new this year when my spreader quits working ..... Jose
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Gonna need to buy a big stove too so he can boil it...
And an oar to stir it
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It is much more course than table salt.
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I will agree with you, these are probably too small, they aren't like table salt though, they are the typical size of the ice melt pellets labelled "fast acting", so yes I will expect to use more if required.
I will say it's funny to look at salt pricing based on nothing but a label. Here's some right here, check out the description, calls for melting snow and ice.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/40-lb-Pool-Salt-Bag-PS40/205955801
When i go to the stores and see salt it's 3 things, softener, ice melt, and pool salt. From there the granules and the packaging are the only differnce. This pool salt is 7 a bag during pool season, so it's not like i'm buying "cheap" sodium chloride. I'm just buying something that isn't marketed to snow removal or ice melt, but it's the same thing.
I'll let you guys know, i went back and bought 20 more bags, i've got 1600lbs of it and it cost me 20 bucks.
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Cheap as in you are paying little for it, but in the long run it won't be cheap because you will need more product to produce the same results as you would with larger granules.
It most certainly will work. It's sodium chloride. Chemicals are inanimate objects, they work the same way every time. The problem comes in when the user expects different results when applying under different conditions. I am not referring to you, just stating a generality.
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yeah, if i get some hangups i'll just be prepared for that. I am definitely going to give this a go, worse comes to worse i can use it in the push spreader for smaller areas, but will be putting a few hundred lbs in the spreader to see how it goes. I can't imagine needing 5x's the product to be equivelant, i'm hoping that the fast acting can work to my advantage but will see.
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I googled swimming pool salt, and found this imagine. I just can't see this working very well. Any moisture at all, and I would think it would gum up in the spreader.
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yup, that's exactly what mine looks like.
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totally worth what i spent on it. even if i have to poke my hopper to keep it clean, the price point is absurd. Hell I'd consider buying a salt filter now, at this price it's much cheaper than cholorine.
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Yeah it isn't, table salt on the left and pool salt on the right... I'm sure your WallyWorld stuff is different as everything is there...
It's meant to dissolve quickly once poured into your pool water.
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not sure what you're trying to argue but i'll post a picture when i get home of this vs table salt. It is much more course. Sorry if that hurts your butt. move on.
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Just letting you know you were wrong is all...
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wrong that it's much more course than table salt? Actually michael, this guy is arguing semantics and there was no name calling. I'm not asking anybody for their opinion on which grain is more course, table salt, or this pool salt. I know the answer. It's show in his picture as well although my product is much more course than table salt.
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