Rain at Last

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Have been getting some much need steady rain all afternoon. Just what the garden needed :D
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Phil,

Sounds like you're in for more than steady in the next few days.
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Jon we can handle a few days of decent rain here in Newcastle. Our tanks have been empty for weeks, the grass is dead and our gardens...well what gardens?
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Yep we got some too 30mil in the guage yesty arvo .

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I wish I could send you all this rain up here in Cairns. I am so over it. The MH roof is going moldy. 130ml the other night.
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Our summer has been a wet warm one, lovely weather. Although the touros may not think so, but it's much better than fire storms and the gardens love it. Will be putting a bore in this year, there's a huge amount of water below us and have already divined where the best spot to get it from is. Luckily, the best reaction I get, is from the highest point on our property, just hope the borers agree with me when they come. There is of course lots of water down in th valley, but pumping it up from below ground and then to the top of the ridge we live on, is fraught with difficulties and unreliable.
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native pepper wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2018 12:42 pm Our summer has been a wet warm one, lovely weather. Although the touros may not think so, but it's much better than fire storms and the gardens love it. Will be putting a bore in this year, there's a huge amount of water below us and have already divined where the best spot to get it from is. Luckily, the best reaction I get, is from the highest point on our property, just hope the borers agree with me when they come. There is of course lots of water down in th valley, but pumping it up from below ground and then to the top of the ridge we live on, is fraught with difficulties and unreliable.
Going through the pumping dramas at the moment. There was a pump system from the river that was abandoned in the big drought and mains water was run past the property on the other side of the road (rivers edge). They used the original suction hose by cutting in and connecting up the mains water and it dribble feeds to a storage tank up the back. The water charges are mind boggling and certainly couldn't imgine trying to keep the lawn and fruit trees watered with it, so decided to go back to the pump idea.
After many attempts I'm no closer, I now think there must be a hole in the suction pipe under the road because after a min or so the pump suffers cavitation and the whole show stops while I prime the suction pipe.
It is roughly 100 mtrs across the road to the rivers edge, might be a stretch to run a power cable and still have enough at the other end so I can run the pump at the rivers edge and pressure feed the water up.
Maybe a solar fed set up could be the go, have you thought of that for your water supply NP?

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Most of Tassie had good much needed rain over the weekend.
In the North West we had 27mm so I can take a few days off watering.

We used to pump from the creek but it's a long 300 metre trip down to the pump to kick the snakes out of the way and add fuel.
10 years ago I put a bore down. 1000 L/hour from 40 meters down. The best thing I ever did.
It ended up close to the shed so I can run the power lead easily.
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Terry,

Does it have a decent check valve at the end of the suction hose? Might be draining out during priming and not getting a full volute of water.

Is the pump seal in good condition? - Might be letting air in.

I had problems last week end with the pump at Taggerty. Had to back flow a back down into the pump and hold the suction hose about the pump to get everything full and remove the air.

When I did that, she primed and pumped.

What sort of pump is it? I have some spare impellers and seals of the Chinese fire pumps.

I do have a 9 hp diesel electric start fire pump (new in box) for sale if you're interested.

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T1 Terry wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2018 1:22 pm
native pepper wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2018 12:42 pm Maybe a solar fed set up could be the go, have you thought of that for your water supply NP?

T1 Terry
Already have 2 x 24v solar pumps on my dams, one pumps from the lower dam to the upper dam. Then water is lifted 80m to the garden tanks, but it's just a trickle really and doesn't keep up with our garden requirements. They are supposed to run directly from the panels, but don't really believe what sellers say. So have them attached to the panels via an adjustable motor controller, which provides a constant 25v when the is sun on the panels.

When the bore goes in, the pump will be solar powered, unless we get a lot of pressure from it. When I divined it, the wires crossed all the way. So there should be good pressure under us, but won't know until the drillers come and do their divining.

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