Recruiting Forum Football Talk III

[volfanCLT]

Boys, let’s pivot for a second. I’ve had gas grills my entire adult life. We moved and sold the cheap one we had. My default plan was to get a Weber now and maybe a Kamado Joe in 1-2 years. But then my buddy bought a pellet grill and loves it. What’s the consensus here?

Cook everything on my Pit Boss pellet grill. Best flavor around. Hot dogs, burgers, steaks, chicken, pork shoulder, ribs, etc.

Takes about 5 minutes to get up to temp and you’re ready to rock and roll.

 

[Smyrna ATL Vol]

Build a pool or no? Getting quotes now… Anyone have one that they built?

 

[scienceteaching_vol]

Anyone watched this? And if so is it worth watching?

 

[OrangeBlood4life]

Build a pool or no? Getting quotes now… Anyone have one that they built?

How old are your kids? Trust me. This matters

 

[jave36]

Cook everything on my Pit Boss pellet grill. Best flavor around. Hot dogs, burgers, steaks, chicken, pork shoulder, ribs, etc.

Takes about 5 minutes to get up to temp and you’re ready to rock and roll.

That's probably my next purchase, but I'm keeping my gas grill. Every time I have grilled items from a traeger or pot boss it's noticeably not as good as a grill.

 

[jave36]

Build a pool or no? Getting quotes now… Anyone have one that they built?

Everyone I know who's owned a pool has regretted it. Small sample size admittedly, but they're a huge hassle and take a ton of money.

 

[rdavis007]

Boys, let’s pivot for a second. I’ve had gas grills my entire adult life. We moved and sold the cheap one we had. My default plan was to get a Weber now and maybe a Kamado Joe in 1-2 years. But then my buddy bought a pellet grill and loves it. What’s the consensus here?

Big Green Egg, Cooks/Smokes anything you can fit in it!

 

[Smyrna ATL Vol]

How old are your kids? Trust me. This matters

4 and 1.5… 4 year old is a fish.

 

[triadvolfan]

Everyone I know who's owned a pool has regretted it. Small sample size admittedly, but they're a huge hassle and take a ton of money.

Pools make Tyler Durden's words come to life. The things you own end up owning you.

 

[Jackcrevol]

Build a pool or no? Getting quotes now… Anyone have one that they built?

One of my mates bought a house. He has 5 kids. He was stoked about his pool. A very rich in law told me once, 'best day I ever had was seeing the dump truck back in and fill that mother ****er up.'

My buddy is selling his house. To get a home with no pool.

Unless you have the free capital to hire full time pool person, they are energy, power, and time vampires.

My wife and I discussed. I want a piece of lake property (see the @bignewt school of winning at real estate investments), or to do a Country Club type summer thing.

It came down to this logic for me. Same as buying a boat. 4 months a year, 120 days. $40-50,000.00 investment if not more. That's about $417 every time I jump in that effing thing. Plus chemicals, keeping stuff out. Triple the power bill. Also, not necessarily being able to recoup your money when selling....

I'm out. We bought kayaks. next will be truck, then camper. Then, I'm taking pics of my mandals and sending to @nicksjuzunk, as a token of appreciation.

 

[rdavis007]

Build a pool or no? Getting quotes now… Anyone have one that they built?

Go with a Salt Water pool, much easier to maintain.

 

[BigSteve09]

Webber . Never can go wrong with a Webber. I have had the same Webber for 10 years. Still going like a champ.

22" does everything that you would ever need a grill to do. Anything above that is just having a good time or spoiling ones self.

 

[Vols2DaWall]

4 and 1.5… 4 year old is a fish.

We are basically the same. Think we’ll go for a pool when kids are like 8-9

 

[Cosmo Kramer]

 

[Vols2DaWall]

22" does everything that you would ever need a grill to do. Anything above that is just having a good time or spoiling ones self.

If I got a Weber, I’d go for the Genesis S-435 vs S-335. We will semi-routinely grill for 7-10 adults

 

[Brillovol]

Yeah, I'm old. Graduated in '91.

Nice. I was ‘99 but if you had Spanish or English you might’ve had my dad as a teacher. Heck, I was there after school every day so I technically was there at the time.

 

[hooperj75]

Go with a Salt Water pool, much easier to maintain.

Also check into your city requirements. Some require specific types of fencing around a pool (height, gate, etc). Concur on the salt water pool. It’s more expensive up front but is much cheaper in the long run. I hated maintaining my pool (cost and time) but my kids spent all their summer there so it was worth it.

 

[BigSteve09]

If I got a Weber, I’d go for the Genesis S-435 vs S-335. We will semi-routinely grill for 7-10 adults

I have a Big Green Egg and it is my everything.

 

[Brillovol]

Boys, let’s pivot for a second. I’ve had gas grills my entire adult life. We moved and sold the cheap one we had. My default plan was to get a Weber now and maybe a Kamado Joe in 1-2 years. But then my buddy bought a pellet grill and loves it. What’s the consensus here?

Pellet affords the ease of gas with the quality of wood smoking. Unless you’re competition smoking, you don’t need anything else. I have a nice Weber that I haven’t used in well over a year but grill all the time.

Gonna smoke a 17 pound brisket tonight. Be on the lookout for #BrilloMeatPics (TWSS).

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Build a pool or no? Getting quotes now… Anyone have one that they built?

Pools are overrated, imo. I used mine a lot the first summer and a little less each following summer. Now it's just something I spend way too much time and money maintaining. Use it maybe 3-4 times a summer and usually after I've drank myself into oblivion and jump in after a Vols game. Even then it's only used for 5-10 minutes.

If you have kids under 16, it will be used more, but they too will quickly lose interest in it. Good for birthday parties and get togethers.

We're currently converting ours into a "swim pond", an option you may want to research before you make a final decision.

 

[OrangeBlood4life]

4 and 1.5… 4 year old is a fish.

Then you have a good 10 years of use out of the pool. Roughly 30k . Plus higher utilities, work to keep it up. Just ask yourself, is it worth it? The normal answer is.... yes- while your kids are young and are playing and swimming.. but the teenage years.. people regret it because nobody swims and it's alot of work

 

[GoBigOrange86]

Pools are overrated, imo. I used mine a lot the first summer and a little less each following summer. Now it's just something I spend way too much time and money maintaining. Use it maybe 3-4 times a summer and usually after I've drank myself into oblivion and jump in after a Vols game. Even then it's only used for 5-10 minutes.

If you have kids under 16, it will be used more, but they too will quickly lose interest in it. Good for birthday parties and get togethers.

We're currently converting ours into a "swim pond", an option you may want to research before you make a final decision.

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Is that yours or is that a demo? That's gorgeous.

 

[Catbone]

Pools are overrated, imo. I used mine a lot the first summer and a little less each following summer. Now it's just something I spend way too much time and money maintaining. Use it maybe 3-4 times a summer and usually after I've drank myself into oblivion and jump in after a Vols game. Even then it's only used for 5-10 minutes.

If you have kids under 16, it will be used more, but they too will quickly lose interest in it. Good for birthday parties and get togethers.

We're currently converting ours into a "swim pond", an option you may want to research before you make a final decision.

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FLEXING

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Is that yours or is that a demo? That's gorgeous.

That's a demo. Ours will be about 3/4 that size.

 

[engineerVOL]

W in T actual F

Why do I not comprehend this yet understand all the words?