In article <ioaa14drjkgg82qogiink7ql1roq2udue2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Charlie wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:24:28 -0700, Billy <wildbilly@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>
> >Either you have one freakin' big tank (27,137.88 gal./acre and just how
> >tall are you eves?) or your planing on scaling this back some. What you
> >using drip? I mean, what are you using, drip? Farml said somethin'
about
> >low pressure drip but I got lost in the conversation about sagging
> >hindsides and such, sorry, old habits and all that;-) (Did I mention
> >that I have been confirmas as having Donelop's disease? My gut done
> >loped over my belt;-) [There must be a 12 step program for smiley face
> >absers.] Any who, you must know that for drip, you have to have a
larger
> >feeder line, because laminar flow will reduce the pressure at the
> >extremities of the spaghetti drip emmiters. I use the 1/4 inch that has
> >1/2 gal/hr emmiters every 12" but that only works up to 20'.
>
> Scaled back just a bit. 1 350 gal tank and two 55 gal barrels, with
> two more in the works when I get the trade worked out with the present
> owner, who happens to be my mother.....*should* be easy, but you know
> how mothers can be1 ;-)
>
> Crimeny, what's all this low pressure drip and tubing and all
> that.......this is sounding scientific and expensive in amount of time
> to setup and buy and figure, oh balls....what I will do is simply hook
> the garden hose to the 350gal/hr pond pump, given the grid stays up,
> and water with a wand......kind of a meditational thing.
>
> THe bottom of the tank is only about four *inches* above the level of
> the garden, so pressure, particularly when at a low level is minimal
> and I'm not inclined to figure volume and distance and reductions and
> all that. Now, If I were clinging to the side of a mountain, like you
> are, it might be adifferent story! :-)
>
> I haven't measured the square footage of the ****tion of the roof that
> supplies the tank, but it is not large, and it filled this weekend on
> one rain. Don't know how much it rained, cuz the rain gauge froze and
> broke. The barrels both ran way over.
> >
> >Who was the "Psycho Ceramic"? Haven't seen him around here before. He
> >sure jumped in and out fast.
>
> Elifino....elifino what the poster meant either.
>
> Hey! Is one of the symptoms of Donelop's a fallen arse that somehow
> creeps out the top of one's shorts? Elifino, but I got's both goin'
> on.
> CHarlie
O.K., O.K., just wanted to make sure that this was a standard snafu;-)
bonne nuit mon brave
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Billy
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