some pics from around this place

[nenmrancher]

One of our deeper wells, this mill supplies a storage tank and three tanks.

This is the storage and it holds about 50,000 gallons.

Here are a couple of the drinking tanks that I am having to work on. Over the last 15 years they have gradually eroded around the base.

My shovel for this project.

My wheel barrow.

About half way done filling in the hole on one of the tanks.

I will have to take some more pictures and show the finished product. I have one done and one to go just need to get it done and remember to take the camera with me.

 

[Jassy]

Ya know I had never seen storage tanks till we were traveling through Arizona and then just last week when we were traveling through Wyoming I seen some...I'm sure they are a "must" in your country...I think they make lots of sense to use where water is such a shortage...Great Windmill picture, blue skies...ahhhhh...Thanks and good luck!

 

[IL Rancher]

WE have talked to a few people around here who have thought about putting them in to deal wth surges in use.. Sometimes the wells just can't keep up with the cattle if you have a 98 degree day with real high humidity in mid July.... But most folks around here don't have as large of tanks as those big ones you have, around here if you are sporting a 2000 gallon tank you have a big one... Sometimes I figure that spending the money to put a real big pump in the well to push 100 gallons or more a minute would be worth it.. Hmm, maybe one of those irrigators that push 1000 gallons a minute :lol: :lol:

 

[nenmrancher]

Most of our wells are limited by the case size and some just dont make enough water to move 100 gallons a minute. The well in that picture is around 300' and if I remember right pumps from about 250'. We use the storage and have placed the drinking tanks in areas where there is not any ponds, or holes that catch and hold water. The windmill in the picture is about a half mile from the storage with one tank a little over a quarter mile away and the third tank is a couple miles off. All of it is conected with 1 1/4" rigid pvc pipe that was trenched in at a depth of 4' to avoid freezing.

If the photo gallery will ever let me finish uploading the pictures I will post some of another of our windmills that just got worked over.

 

[IL Rancher]

I'm told that the Aquifer under our place is tied into the great lake, don't know if it is true but at about 100 feet you can get good water in some areas, others you can go a bit deeper like 200 feet (We are at edge of this aquifer... Then Ethanol plant went past 1000 feet under their property and all they hit was one pocker (Witha bout 15 drillings) and the water was jet black (Coal vein).. Had to trench 2 miles north to get into tis aquifer.

Mostly our water is onoly limited by how deep you want to go into the bed and how big of a casement and motor you want to go.. 100 gpm would be an easy well to drill allthough most are in the 12-14 gpm just because of piping..

 

[CattleArmy]

The way the wind has blown here this year the mills are pumping almost constantly no need for storage this year so far anyway. However, in summer pasts I recall a time or two hoping the wind would blow or the cattle were gonna be out of water. :x

 

[nenmrancher]

Know the feeling CattleArmy, that is why all of our windmills that are pumping into storage have submersible pumps on them and we have generators that we run to power the pumps.