Is the pond full enough to use for livestock water?
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Is the pond full enough to use for livestock water? With all the spring rains this year the pond was surprisingly full enough to use our tire tank that is hooked onto this pond. First time in two years that we have been able to use it because of our multi-year drought.
Got some fencing to do? Check out Powerflex Fence for your discount on all their fencing products.
You can get a 15% one-time discount from Powerflex Fence products by clicking on this link: powerflexfence...
A $300 trash pump from harbor freight can lift 91 feet high. At zero feet of lift it pump it can pump at 160 gal per minute. At 50 feet of lift, and 1000 feet of pipe you going to have 21.5 psi drop in pressure from height and probably another 20 psi drop from frictional losses. With those pressure losses the pump flow rate will reduce to probably 20 gal a minute. That’s 1200 gal per hour of water. If you can put 2 pumps in series. One at the source and another halfway up to the pond then you will greatly increase the flow rate. You might get 100gal a minute with the pumps linked in series. That’s 6000 gal an hour with a 2” line.
Remember, 1” of water over 1 acre is 26,000 gallons. That pond looks like 1/5 acre. Expect your pond to go up 1 inch every hour of pumping run 2 pumps for 24 hours and that pond will go up 2 feet.
You are right Monsieur Judy, as usual, pumping creek water to fill your pond sound the best option and I Hope you do! It would be also a good vidéo to watch but that's selfish of us your viewers. Thanks Again for all your inspiring free tuitons on proper management of the future and your Relay with the youth of your internes ! God keep on blessing you all of your estate and beyond, have a wet summer !
Greg look at a ram pump from your creek to automatically fill your pond
I think that's a great idea to pull water from the creek to the pond.
Higdon Warthog. 850 GPM. Self priming floating pump. It is 6” diameter and has 15 hours of run time. We use them to flood duck hunting holes.
Another option if there’s groundwater there would be to run a couple of lines of tile from that watershed into the pond. It would minimize the damage to the sod.
Solar pump setups are a godsend. One properly sized panel and a self-priming pump and you just set it up and let it go. I have a few "kits" (pump, panel, hose and a post) that I use to manage drainage on our small property.
This small DC pump should be a piston positive pressure pump that would pump as varying speeds depending on the amps produced from the panel.
Ram pump no electricity or motor
Ram pump as long as creek is moving
Look it up
Very interested in a video of what you do with it. Would love to see video of the pump idea. We use a trash pump but not that much incline. Thanks and that forage is impressive
Your best option is to have John take a dozer and make a swale diversion into the pond. I just built a small 1/20th acre pond and made 2 diversion wings from each direction to catch the run off from 3 acres, where before it was only catching what fell into it.
Instead of a terrace what about a perforated tile trenched in shallow on a diagonal from the high point to the pond ? You will need a trailer mounted trash pump and it would definitely something you need to do get that pond full just allow extra day so the water has a chance to soak into the banks since it has never been full before
Another thought to keep it full would be some type of 12v solar hydroelectric pump with a 3/4 pipe to the pond or solar converter to 110v with a sump pump
Ram pump from the creek
Hay Grerg. If you run your discharge hose down the the water level when you start pumping you will benefit from the syphen. That occurs from your highest point if lift down to the water level. Of course, as the water level rises the net lift will increase as the water level in the pond increases. I thing it is very doable. You will need to dig and/or build a small pool for the water to fill into that is somewhat deep for you to build out of. I used an commercial round taperbittomed plastic garbage can as the pump drafting site. I the built a small diversion penstock in my creeknthat I poured out of cement and used 2x6 boards that I slid into place to raise the water level and diverted the flow to my drafting cistern. I had another pipe as overflow that returned what water was not pumped back to the creek bed. Be sure to have a low water pressure shut off incase the pump looses pressure for any reason it will shut off the power source. Let us know what u decide to do. Save the garbage can lid to keep stuff out of your drafting pool.cover ends of inlet and over flow what not in use to keep.critters out.
I'd try to pump out of the creek. But you'll need a really good flow in the creek to satisfy the intake on a three or four inch pump. I see the big diesel pumps on construction sites, and they move a ton of water fast. I'm sure there's a place to rent such stuff, Johnny will know. The real trick is getting the pump and lines in place when the time is right. Of course maybe the fall could be wet enough for it--but by then the pond maybe be in even better shape.
I'd closely monitor how much the cattle drop the pond level per day, so they don't run themselves out.
I wouldn't even think of an electric pump for a job that big--but then maybe it'd work better with the available flow of the creek.
Fill the pond while you can!
Fill it up from the creek. Good idea. Don’t tear up the soil.
Buying the 540’ of 2-4” pipe, and moving it around would be the biggest expense/chore but it would work ok. If it is something you would do frequently maybe have it ripped into the ground just to cover it, mark the end. You may need to deepen an area in the creek for your draw side of the pump. I am dealing with similar lengths to get water to an upper field to make grazing more effective, but it would directly fill a trough. I am only looking at about 340’.
Hello 👋 Greg, Al from Lumnah Acres got a trash pump from harbor freight that he uses for a hydro seeder that he built and also uses it for emergency off grid fire suppression system that’s portable and it seems to provide plenty of pressure for his purposes. I hope that this information helps you some. Have a wonderful day and may you be blessed with much more success in your journey. Bill and Cate, 40 Shades of Green Farm, Jackson Tennessee
Just happy to hear of another farming in TN who understands how grazing management can develop and improve the land!
Drill a well and put a solar pump from RPS. Ours works great.
Thanks for sharing! Understand, the hesitation to cut a terrace just to give a little more fill water to pond. Enjoyed seeing the grasses, you working to restore.
So with hindsight, are you saying that you would have tried to move more of the soil and mud that were in the old pond uphill to make a bigger gentle slope run off area around the uphill rim of the pond?
Greg, thank you for the daily videos freely sharing your knowledge for the benefit of others. You’re doing the lords work. God bless you and your family.
Smaller pipe, solar pump, and make a small pool in the stream. Bob
Thanks for the video! To bad insight that all the soil and muck you took out of the pond, you didn’t make a terrace out of that. Even if it was a little small one. Also, if you take a limb the same length of your arm from hand to shoulder, you put the base of the stick in your hand hold your arm straight out and Walk away from the tree or post in your case and once the stick is touching top and bottom while holding your arm straight out that is the height of the tree or post from where you are standing. It helps a lot so you know how far the tree will fall when sawing wood. I don’t know anything about those pumps. You could look up one of Russ Wilson’s videos on what he does for pumping water from creeks or small rivers.
Greg you're right it seems like every farm I see for sale on the web show pictures of their ranch with cattle or horses lounging in the ponds. So as a potential buyer you know you will have to have those ponds dug out and repaired in order to reuse them as a water source for your animals. It's terrible!
I have seen you talk about that tank (pond) before. In my opinion and you know this already, it doesn't have the watershed.
Yeah those COWPOTIMOOSES are all over southern Missouri 😅
Do the swale your like my kids instant gratification. Plant tree that you’ll never sit under its shade. Your grandkids won’t worry about having to get a pump from the creek because grandpa was too stuck in his ways.
Greg has had to rip out swales in the past. He might be hesitant because they don't always work as intended.
What a pemretty pond!
Ram pump is a good option or find someone with a older fire pump truck if the area is accessible
Hippo😂 is the Greek word for horse hippopotamus means water horse i wonder if you could find the Greek word for cow or cattle and make a new name for the black swimmers🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉
The google translation of " the Greek word for cow", kou. So, koupotamus?
@@user-fx7wg6iv3f thank you I asked Alexis she said it but would not spell it 🖖😇👍☘️💚🍀💕❤️💞🍀💚☘️🤷🏼♀️