Thank you for sharing! I love seeing how things are going for you all up there. I think it so fantastic that you have the water coming from your creek and I’m so impressed with your rye field!! My husband and I were led to move to the country over 5 years ago. I’ve learned to garden and preserve our fruits and vegetables. We also have a dairy cow!! All praise the The Father for calling us out of the cities and giving us a heart to get back to ways of old. Blessings to all!
Two mods I would do. In the air vent cap, I would drill a 1/4" vent hole in the threads about half way down. This would enable just partially unscrewing the vent cap only until the new vent hole is exposed. As soon as water begins to emerge it can (much) easily be tightened to seal things up without dealing with icy geysers of water under pressure. Second I would put a 3 or 4 foot long silt trap between the river and the pump. The pump will last longer if there is no river mud to deal with. You may have to empty the silt trap every few months, but that is a lot easier and cheaper than replacing the pump or clearing a clogged hose. A company called RPS (they have a website) makes a decent solar powered fire pump for situations like this one. Sunlight is much cheaper than gasoline and a few batteries can provide back up power for cloudy days.
Add a foot valve or even a simple swing check valve in front of the filter head that is sitting in the river. Then you won't have to run the pump sucking air before each irrigation. The suction hose will remain full of water when the pump is shut off. Running the pump dry or with no significant prime causes excessive wear.
Sir..You didn't mention the pumps model name, the distance you are pumping and the head height !! Please give us the info.....your information will be of great help!! Thanks!
We actually bought it for fire protection, and it does give us a firehouse amount of pressure. Thankfully we have been spared from the many fires in our province this year.
I have a 3inch water pump and it only takes about 30 seconds to get going once I primed it. I dontnooen the top priming cap to let sir out and it gets going really fast.
How long is your discharge hose to the garden? I am trying to install similar system on my 2 Acre field with sprinklers, but not sure how far I can push the water without losing significant pressure.
Great question. I bet you wont get an answer. Most videos that have fake high views. Dont answer the best question. What is total head, how many sprinklers are too many, how many horsepower is better???
I do not believe this will work on a deep well situation. This is a surface pump and cannot lift water from depths greater than 20 feet or so. A deep well pump sits at the bottom of a well and pushes water up.
That would probably depend on the size of your pump. I haven't measured exactly how far we water in this particular spot, but it is at least 150 meters, if not farther. We have enough pressure to use a splitter to have two hoses running at once, with good pressure.
I think it is worth mentioning that if you live in a state, roughly speaking, west of the Mississippi you cannot just pump water out of any body of water even if it flows through or near your property. You must have a water right that says when where how and what the water may be used for.
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If there is a lot of bottom sediment in the river, you can pump it out with a motor pump as fertilizer. At the same time, you will clean the river.
Thank you for sharing! I love seeing how things are going for you all up there. I think it so fantastic that you have the water coming from your creek and I’m so impressed with your rye field!! My husband and I were led to move to the country over 5 years ago. I’ve learned to garden and preserve our fruits and vegetables. We also have a dairy cow!! All praise the The Father for calling us out of the cities and giving us a heart to get back to ways of old. Blessings to all!
Great point! We do have irrigation rights.
Two mods I would do. In the air vent cap, I would drill a 1/4" vent hole in the threads about half way down. This would enable just partially unscrewing the vent cap only until the new vent hole is exposed. As soon as water begins to emerge it can (much) easily be tightened to seal things up without dealing with icy geysers of water under pressure. Second I would put a 3 or 4 foot long silt trap between the river and the pump. The pump will last longer if there is no river mud to deal with. You may have to empty the silt trap every few months, but that is a lot easier and cheaper than replacing the pump or clearing a clogged hose. A company called RPS (they have a website) makes a decent solar powered fire pump for situations like this one. Sunlight is much cheaper than gasoline and a few batteries can provide back up power for cloudy days.
We have been watering from our creek for a couple years now. Fun to watch you doing it, Tom.
I never worry about releasing air bubbles.They just pass instantly through the discharge hose.
Thanks for the video
Our pleasure!
Add a foot valve or even a simple swing check valve in front of the filter head that is sitting in the river. Then you won't have to run the pump sucking air before each irrigation. The suction hose will remain full of water when the pump is shut off. Running the pump dry or with no significant prime causes excessive wear.
How much KW or hp is your Honda pump? And many meter the water from the river to?
Sir..You didn't mention the pumps model name, the distance you are pumping and the head height !!
Please give us the info.....your information will be of great help!! Thanks!
Is that the pressure you get from that pump? That's like a trickle, you should be getting a firehose amount of pressure.
We actually bought it for fire protection, and it does give us a firehouse amount of pressure. Thankfully we have been spared from the many fires in our province this year.
@@TomStapleton Yeah I figured you get more pressure with that pump. Glad you guys haven't had to deal with fires this year! What a crazy year
You fired up such a powerful honda pump just to water a couple of sprouting plants?😁
I have a 3inch water pump and it only takes about 30 seconds to get going once I primed it. I dontnooen the top priming cap to let sir out and it gets going really fast.
How long is your discharge hose to the garden? I am trying to install similar system on my 2 Acre field with sprinklers, but not sure how far I can push the water without losing significant pressure.
Great question. I bet you wont get an answer. Most videos that have fake high views. Dont answer the best question. What is total head, how many sprinklers are too many, how many horsepower is better???
Can you make a supply list or where I can find these products to diy?
God bless you bro :)
can this type of pump pump water from a deep well with rigid pipes, or does it only work with those flexible pipes?
I do not believe this will work on a deep well situation. This is a surface pump and cannot lift water from depths greater than 20 feet or so. A deep well pump sits at the bottom of a well and pushes water up.
@@TomStapleton so its power is more in its output, seeing that you pumped so far uphill. My well is only 7 meters deep.
Its work for 4 to 5 acre feild
Why dont u use a ram pump instead
Can the water push to over 250 meter ?
That would probably depend on the size of your pump. I haven't measured exactly how far we water in this particular spot, but it is at least 150 meters, if not farther. We have enough pressure to use a splitter to have two hoses running at once, with good pressure.
@@TomStapleton could you give us the specs of the pump? HP? Engine size?
I think it is worth mentioning that if you live in a state, roughly speaking, west of the Mississippi you cannot just pump water out of any body of water even if it flows through or near your property. You must have a water right that says when where how and what the water may be used for.
Good point. We also have to pay for water rights here. Thank you for mentioning that.
You need to rebuild your pump, it's in bad shape