The only plastic tank you should have should be the one in the attic.
Bought a few 120 gallon ones ( top right in your post of fast fill) Was in a local river scheme and grant matched price of them at the time. They are shallow in depth (low to ground unless you build it up under them) and fill very close to top, any tiny bit off level and they could overflow.
There is a 50 million euro, environmental improvement programme going at the moment. Europe are paying for it. You can apply for troughs and fencing, if you have cattle and rivers to protect. Ask an advisor
I think I’ll go with the concrete ones to **** so. Running a solar pump don’t want it running dry
yea im in it great job
Dows it have to be rivers or could it just be ordinary drains?
There are lots of elements to it, troughs, water pumps, keeping cattle off of black ground from mid Sept, tractor brushs,fencing, yard pollution, hedging ect. So there is bound to be something that fits you.
I think it takes a few months to get accepted. I'm no expert
Lads is this the Tams grant or is there another scheme
A map gas is ideal. Very handy.
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Any link to scheme??
I’m in Acres CP there’s money for troughs and solar pumps
is this the acres scheme or a different scheme. If it is can you sent a link to it please.
Doing Abit of reseeding in the next few weeks going to mole plough in some water pipes either 1/2 inch or 3/4 inch as its only for beef cattle and the water pressure is good. Should I put in the blue MDPE pipe or should I stick to the hydro black pipe?
https://farmingforwater.ie/
It may be more suited to dairy, but you can find out
https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-agriculture-food-and-the-marine/services/targeted-agricultural-modernisation-scheme-3-tams-3/
Anyone with a pasture pump or something similar? How do you find them? I have a couple of solar pump and don't want to sell out again!
Use blue. And don’t dream of using 1/2 inch.
The bigger your pipe the lower you can set your pump pressure. You should consider 32mm blue. Which is equivalent to 1” black.
I can’t understand why the blue is sold referring to the outside diameter and the black is internal like every other pipe you buy…. Maybe someone can enlighten me??
there’s loads of pipes like that, I found out the hard way years ago, ordered over £10k of 225mm pipe, seriously heavy stuff and a long lead time, anyway it was delivered and I discovered it was 225mm O/D and 200mm I/D, that company’s makes pipes in 25mm intervals and works on the assumption that you are ordering based on the outer diameter, absolutely stupid. There’s loads of things like that, a 12 foot gate might be 12 with one company and 11 8 with another to allow for hangers etc.
first time I’ve come across it. Ridiculous
Definitely 3/4 minimum and inch if you can stretch. Blue pipes we'll. Sending PM with contact for blue pipe he was cheaper for the pipe than local co-ops
send to me too bass please
Would blue pipe be more expensive that than the black pipe or much of a muchness? I only have a 35acre block there so 3/4 inch or 25mm blue pipe will do the Job the mains supply was pulled with a machine when installed and the first 50m or so is 1/2 hydro would you go back to the the meter and start from there or just join onto the half inch? are philamac fittings ok under ground I think @IFarmWeFarm7615 done a video before and he said he uses brass underground but tbh I have't used a brass fitting in years. The reason the imperial is the internal is because that's how it's done for everything always internal and metric is always external diameter that's for all industries. Bar water pipes and land drainage pipes I don't think I use imperial for anything
Fairly sure I asked the farm advisor and he said no water piping to troughs where included in tams @visatorro
The size of the pipe should be matched to ground conditions too. It’s fine to say put in inch pipe if it’s all level ground but if you’re pumping uphill from the pump you have to account for the head of water. 500 metres of 1 inch pipe is holding 250kgs (a quarter of a ton!) of water when full. Every time your pump kicks in it has to lift that weight up the hill. I’ve seen lads fit inch and a quarter pipe uphill and you wouldn’t wet your finger with what came out of it at the top of the hill. Swapped it for half inch pipe and no problem getting water.
What lads at that work all the time do is reduce the size of pipe for any steep climbs and increase it on the downhills in order to create pressure. The bigger size pipe going downhill creates suction in the smaller pipe climbing the hill before it and takes some of the load off the pump and maintains the pressure.
Also if your pumping up to high paddocks don't skimp on the size of the trough, if there is water pumping anywhere else it'll go up the hill last. A few cows wouldn't be long emptying a small trough
Where is the best place to place concrete drinkers in fields. Fields range from 2.5 acres down to 1.8acres 4 fields I am gonna set them up as grazing paddocks. was think its probably best to set it up the drinker in the middle and then the fields can be split in two. But these fields are all hills fields and some of it is steep.
you can see the layout in the picture. The blue is gone to the road and the green is the direction of the hill from top to bottom. I was thinking in 2 and 3 the drinker should be in the centre along the hedge running on the perimeter.
off topic but I’m looking for some help on a situation for a friend,
He has a half inch pipe coming from his pump house doing a water trough, he then installed two extra troughs,big concrete ones, the distance of these troughs required two rolls of piping, for some reason he decided to use inch pipe,so he has a half inch pipe feeding a inch pipe, the first trough is filling grand but he can’t get water to the second trough, it’s also going up a hill. His pump isn’t great but he sank a new pump beside it, which has inch piping, could he connect the inch piping from the new well to the old well which is half inch? Would this drive it? Any other suggestions how you could overcome this problem?
he should reverse the Order of his pipes to keep up the head pressure. Inch off the pump then down to half inch.
You see the problem is that the half inch is buried so this isn’t an option, would he have been better off going all half inch instead of inch? Could you get any fittings to regulate the pressure?
