Spreading water in evenings/ early mornings

mengele

Second cut is really struggling. Got little to no rain here in cork. Thinking of getting out the tanker and drawing water in early mornings and late evenings.

Anyone find it successful or just a waste of diesel?

Dakota Dan

mengele wrote: »

Second cut is really struggling. Got little to no rain here in cork. Thinking of getting out the tanker and drawing water in early mornings and late evenings.

Anyone find it successful or just a waste of diesel?

You need close to 28k gallons to cover an acre with an inch of water, that's a lot of water and loads. Have you a good supply of water?

mengele

Dakota Dan wrote: »

You need close to 28k gallons to cover an acre with an inch of water, that's a lot of water and loads. Have you a good supply of water?

Supply is near enough alright. I was thinking even I did the field that was reseeded last year it might help the situation. If it got 2500 gallons a day to the acre.

Panch18

Absolutely wasting your time and diesel

We had to clean out the vacuum tank last weekend to draw water for the cows so we spread a few loads, going at 0.5mph in the crawler gearbox, and by the time the load was emptied you couldn't tell that any water had been spread, totally disappeared

Opened the side fill to clean it and must have left 250 gallons off in 1 spot. Totally gone in an hour or so

Never mind the damage to the grass that is there that you will do with all that driving and tracking on it

mengele

Panch18 wrote: »

Absolutely wasting your time and diesel

We had to clean out the vacuum tank last weekend to draw water for the cows so we spread a few loads, going at 0.5mph in the crawler gearbox, and by the time the load was emptied you couldn't tell that any water had been spread, totally disappeared

Opened the side fill to clean it and must have left 250 gallons off in 1 spot. Totally gone in an hour or so

Never mind the damage to the grass that is there that you will do with all that driving and tracking on it

Yes ur right, think I will leave it in the shed.

alps

Dakota Dan wrote: »

You need close to 28k gallons to cover an acre with an inch of water, that's a lot of water and loads. Have you a good supply of water?

That 28k gallons to the inch has become the quoted figure since a teagasc official published recently...

It's not...

That's US gallons


The correct figure is nearer 22,500 imperial gallons..

That'll ease the workload for those of you spreading water.

6480

alps wrote: »

That 28k gallons to the inch has become the quoted figure since a teagasc official published recently...

It's not...

That's US gallons


The correct figure is nearer 22,500 imperial gallons..

That'll ease the workload for those of you spreading water.

I done one field and it was a waste of time .left it worse . Fields i didnt do are way ahead of it

Buford T. Justice XIX

A neighbour is doing it with the last few weeks. 2k gallons an acre every evening after 9.30 after the cows moved onto the next paddock. He's happy with the results, stocked at 2 cows/acre so needs to keep grass growing.

Dakota Dan

alps wrote: »

That 28k gallons to the inch has become the quoted figure since a teagasc official published recently...

It's not...

That's US gallons


The correct figure is nearer 22,500 imperial gallons..

That'll ease the workload for those of you spreading water.

Yes that is correct, what a blunder for teagasc to make and the comic published it without checking it out first.

Dakota Dan

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

A neighbour is doing it with the last few weeks. 2k gallons an acre every evening after 9.30 after the cows moved onto the next paddock. He's happy with the results, stocked at 2 cows/acre so needs to keep grass growing.

Is it wet or dry land?

whelan2

Dakota Dan wrote: »

Is it wet or dry land?

It would have been dry before he spread and wet after......

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

It would have been dry before he spread and wet after......

Get your coat missus

Dakota Dan

whelan2 wrote: »

It would have been dry before he spread and wet after......

Ha, at 2k an acre I'd say he'd be better off p1ssing on it.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Dakota Dan wrote: »

Is it wet or dry land?

Dakota Dan wrote: »

Ha, at 2k an acre I'd say he'd be better off p1ssing on it.

Mixture of both. Takes him about 45 minutes, he reckons it keeps the grass from being under too much pressure. Same man doesn't make many mistakes but he likes driving machinery so that helps too.

Say my name

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Read an article in the Independent by Robin Talbot. He said it was the warmest coldest wettest driest year ever. Just about sums it up.

It's a record breaker on every front.
Even if it's average now for the rest of the summer we're still breaking records.

Monday and Tuesday look promising for showers. There's broken weather fronts coming down across the country but with pressure low it should spark off showers.

Source Fax charts on theweatheroutlook.

The Rabbi

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

A neighbour is doing it with the last few weeks. 2k gallons an acre every evening after 9.30 after the cows moved onto the next paddock. He's happy with the results, stocked at 2 cows/acre so needs to keep grass growing.

If spreading late in the evening perhaps the cold river water changes the dew point?
Would it cause a heavier dew to fall there?