You're becoming quite a star out there! I love the setup. Nice and simple, but well-thought out.
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Im thinking of using those tanks for my water supply using rain water off my 2400 SF metal roof. I have a 120 volt submersible pump to drop in one to feed my shop. I want a 1000 gallon fiberglass holding tank square or round but can’t seem to find one used.
JDMopar
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If you have a small submersible pump similar to the one I have, it may not put out enough pressure to do what you want. I built an emergency water supply in our basement after the hurricane destroyed our city water system. I have two 55 gallon food grade barrels in the basement, full of clean well water from a generous neighbor up the road. I closed the valve where the city water comes in and hooked a hose from the submersible pump in a barrel to a boiler drain spigot in the basement, via a hose to backfeed our plumbing so we would have water from the tap. It works barely well enough to take a shower....but it does work. Very low water pressure even after bleeding the air from the lines. Play around with your pump in a 5 gallon bucket of water to see how it does before you invest in a big tank. That way you can work the bugs out before spending a lot of money on a tank.
Thanks, what a plumber guy said, to fix use a well-trol tank (the one with the ballon in it). The one I have was hooked up to a house and had 60 psi pressure, till house was built then on community water (10 houses on the Potomac Creek). Only use will be for washing in slop sink and maybe a toilet hooked to one of those 55 g blue plastic tanks in ground, urinal just drains down the hill on ground. Way out in county.
Darn near need to start a build thread on this Road Watering Rig.
Another flow upgrade, this time went from 1 1/4" i.d. pipe to 2" pvc i.d. pipe to feed the 3" Boom.
Made all the difference.
It is dumping twice the water that it was before and able to run in 6th gear on the JD Tractor going down the road spreading water instead of just crawling along.
Watering 1/2 mile of gravel road out front here, that includes in front of 2 other next door neighbor's places, as the Sun was going down this evening.
Used 1000 gallons of water on the 1/2 mile stretch of road.
☆☆☆☆☆
P.S.
Oh Yeah...
No Dust as people are driving by.
☆☆☆☆☆
Another flow upgrade, this time went from 1 1/4" i.d. pipe to 2" pvc i.d. pipe to feed the 3" Boom.
Made all the difference.
It is dumping twice the water that it was before and able to run in 6th gear on the JD Tractor going down the road spreading water instead of just crawling along.
Watering 1/2 mile of gravel road out front here, that includes in front of 2 other next door neighbor's places, as the Sun was going down this evening.
Used 1000 gallons of water on the 1/2 mile stretch of road.
☆☆☆☆☆
P.S.
Oh Yeah...
No Dust as people are driving by.
☆☆☆☆☆
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We had the dirt road with chloride, ate all our cars up with rust. They paved it later thankfully
Minercar
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You might want to try to source some Lignin sulfonate, (a byproduct of the lumber industry). I've used it to pelletize gypsum and lime and to use as a dust suppressant on roads. It doesn't cancer metal, crusts over well, not a noxious smell and is water soluble. After a rain it can be reworked and packed in but a gully washer can wash it away.
pishta
I know I'm right....
Static tire balancer, make some mandrel for hub size and center cap of your rim and buy a bullseye level. Center the golf cleat and set into cup of pushrod. Stack pennies on edge to balance. Weigh the stacks and apply the stick/clamp on weights and check for bubble up. Worked better than a static balancer on the back wheels! $5 in parts and a 3D printer for the mandrels.
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