"Last year I got rear ended and their insurance paid for a rental car....And YES, I GOT A BIG OLE TRUCK" hmmmmm...you might be a compost wacko! auntyara, a neighbor once loaded his 18' trailer with mulch for me; I forget what he charged, but it wasn't a whole bunch. I'd feel funny about asking someone to "trade" in a situation like this; gas & time & wear-&-tear on the vehicle, etc. I wouldn't want a neighbor or friend to feel like I was asking for more than I was offering. (anyone ever see this bumper sticker for pick-up trucks? "Yes, This Is My Truck. No, I Will Not Help You Move.") & even if you don't have a likely neighbor, I bet you could find a worker at at least one of those places who would deliver you a load of whatever for some small fee.

Or you could rent a pickup at say, U-Haul, and load it yourself, if budget is the issue. I just picked up 1/2 cu yard of compost from the place I get bark mulch from. I have four 25 gallon tubs I use to sort laundry, plus a metal trash can, plus another smaller tub. It took 2 loads in my station wagon and was a bit silly. But I got 1/2 cu yard of great compost for my potting project for $17. And some exercise...which isn't a bad thing. If you want a lot, I agree that you might want to look into commercial compost & have it delivered. I only get the town "compost" for small applications, to add some organic material. I don't count on it being as good as my own compost, or be as "alive."

dnt1 said" john g you have gotten yourself stuck on the wrong area with your business. You have to show people something besides good work and here it is. People dont care how much you know until they know how much you care. Customer service good listening skills and lots of empathy man, now get on it and get that business growing as it should." Well if it was really only that easy. I repaired a Jeep Cherokee that had bounced around between 5 shops/techs. The problem surfaced alledgedly right after a major transmission replacement. The symptom was a surging/high idle speed, missfire/cutout when driving. The AC was inoperative, the clutch would not engage. The customer had already tried adding refrigerant with sealer himself, without gages. Plus the 4WD display was blank. The soultion was the computer had failed, but before the computer could be replaced, every possible reason that something on the car could be causing the computers microprocessor to continually reset had to be explored, and proven to NOT exist. Plus I also had to be sure that something else on the data bus on the car was not causing the reset to occur. There are no training manuals anywhere, nor is there service information/repair manuals written at this level. Guys like me are totally on our own with this stuff, and we often spend two times as much time studying the system at home to make each diagnostic move faster, and in analyzing the results to make sure we haven't overlooked something which would result in a customer potentially buying a part they do not need. I had well over eight hours time in this car, and ultimately billed three. The result had everything working, and I did notice some belt squeal, it was a newer, and properly tightened (within tension specs) serpentine belt. Now do you think this guy appreciated what I did? I did not sell any unneeded parts or service and I even cut him a significant break on the real amount of time required to do that. For my trouble I can tell you that I have 80% of the fuel injection wiring diagram memorized for a 97 Jeep Grand Cherokee. That's how close I had to study this system to be positive I was making the correct call. He went out to the Jeep after paying his bill, five minutes later he came back in and wanted me to go outside and hear something. He was concerned about the belt "chirping" when the AC was turned on. He was complaining that it did not do it before, well of course it didn't, the AC had not worked in the month and a half they had been fighting this. I told him shut the engine off, and went inside and got my laptop, and my belt tension gage. I showed him the spec, then I measured the tension on the belt and showed him it was in spec. The I showed him how the belt that was on the Jeep was one of the discount aftermarket replacement ones, that does not actually fit the pulleys correctly. He still insisted that I do something, and at that point I said fine, I'll take it to the maximum tension allowed on the spec, for a fee. At that point he balked, and said it's not adjustable, it has a spring tensioner, which I really got a laugh out of, because I asked him to show it to me. Then I showed him how the belt adjusted with the idler that is just below and inside of the power steering pump. I then asked him, who put this belt on? He said it was another shop he had dealt with recently, and I asked him why not go back to them and have them deal with it? His reply? Because he didn't pay them for it. I didn't press him for details at this point, but one way or another he managed to coerce them into doing it for free, or flat out managed to rip them off somehow. In the end, he paid me to adjust the belt. I refused to touch the rest of the AC system at all, because the sealers that he added have the potential of damaging my AC recovery/recharge equipment, and I'm not ready to have to spend another $4,000 on a new one. I also told him to the best that I could be sure, the transmission shop had nothing to do with the failure of the computer. Three days later the transmission shop involved called me up. He had not seen this guy and was glad that I had straightened his Jeep out. He was having trouble with a Ford tranny he had rebuilt and needed me to help him figure out what was wrong. He had one dissapointing thing to say. No matter what the outcome was, this guy with the Jeep would bad mouth me about fixing his car. It's just the way the guy is..........

@dapooltec: I had contemplated going that route myself and just live with the slightly brittle and browned ring of the jet body you can see in the first image. However, I am worried that once I finish the tiling I won't be able to find a fitting nozzle (?) and eyeball fitting. @cascade: I forgot to measure the old jets again but will do so this afternoon. I spent all of Saturday and Sunday dragging coping and concrete around, building a form for a wall behind the pool and pouring the concrete for it. Luckily, I had help by my best friend (whom I let do most of the hard work ;) ). @renovxpt: The only straight body assembly I found in the Waterway catalog is part number 210-3840. The specs for it say 7.5" min length. While my jacuzzi wall is 10" deep (it's part of the pool shell), the existing jets just sit very shallow and I am not sure I can fit the air line without opening up even more of the gunite. As for posting images, see my other reply (basically, add <img src="url to your image at a free hosting site"> in your post to link to an image).