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We have had a good season here so far this year and the veggie patch is going "gang busters" [biggrin][bigrolf]
Some pic's
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Nice, Trout. I like the way you've dog legged the corro for boat parking![smilebigeye]
We've had a good run, too. I took some of our produce to our local rubbity cook, who was most appreciative.
only things growing well for me this year is the snowpeas and the fruit salad citrus tree
everything else seems very hesitant...
Everything this year is at least a month ahead from last year [thumbsupbig]
After cyclone Seroja came barreling through I was left with a heap of downed gumtree branches that I had to clean up and ended up burning off, I put all that wood ash from those fires onto the veggie patch and dug it all in.
We have also had a fairly mild winter so far and regular rainfall as well.
After 4 days of 50c heat here the outside veggie patches are now toast[bawl]
My 2x shade houses however are still thriving[thumbsupbig]
On another note the BIL's windmill has **** itself AGAIN so I have ordered a solar powered bore pump for him and I will set it up when it arrives as we are both sick and tired of forever pulling the mill up and fixing it.
3" Screw Deep Well Solar Pump Submersible Bore Pump MPPT Regulator +Solar Panel | eBay
I ordered this setup, Deinately made from "Chinesium" but at less that $700 for the full kit it is definately worth a punt.
We have plenty of new 1" blue line polly and stainless cable so all we really need now is 30m of 3 core submersible wire to complete the job and as there is only 20m of "Head" to deal with this little pump should do just fine[thumbsupbig]
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Originally Posted by trout1105
Hi Trouty, I'd be interested to see how that pump behaves after you have had it operating for a decent period. Currently have a Grundfoss SS 1 HP 3 phase which is fine for now, the problem we have is that AGL hit us with 2 x connection Service fees (Pump Shed + House) each quarter so if our current one ****s itself one day this may be the way to go for us. It just fills a Header tank so it could take it's time so long as it fills during daylight hours.
At a 20m head this little pump is specced to deliver 940 lph [thumbsupbig]Quote:
Originally Posted by 4bee
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Originally Posted by trout1105
Thanks, that is about my current head so should fit the bill & I'll be interested in the Installation of it in time.
Water quality here is excellent, PH slightly Alkaline & TDS has always been good, & Iron is slightly over the WHO limit for long term drinking water for children.
Locally it is called Spring Water & bottled by others & sold as such.
Some bores/wells around here are very Alkaline but not ours.[bighmmm]
The standard the water mob use is to compare it with Mount Bold Reservoir & ours is better.
The water at the BIL's place (7k's away) isn't too bad But I still wouldn't make a cup of tea with it.
The water in my well is bloody awful as it is fairly salty and heavilly mineralised So it is only good for stock and the lawn unfortunately.
I have a big submersible 240v pump down the well which works really well But it is pretty power hungry and the "head" from the well to my header tank is about 30m so I am also keen to see how the new solar pump setup performs.
The 2x 300w solar panels arrived last week and I have installed them on a heavy duty steel frame and are now good to go [thumbsupbig]
The pump arrived yesterday and due to the 40C+ temps here for the next few days it can stay in the shed until it cools down enough to set it up without getting heat stoke.
We have enough blue line polly and the fittings needed to set the pump up But I will still have to head into town to get the various cables to be able to connect the pump and level sensors to to mill and the tank via the pump controller.
I also have to get some stainless cable and fitting to secure the pump.
It is a work in progress and as the mill is still managing to pump a little bit of water at this time there is no rush at the moment to bust our guts pulling the mill and fitting the new pump is these high temps.
We can however during this hot spell sit in the shade drinking beer and plan our attack strategy which sounds like a bloody good plan to me[biggrin][bigrolf]
I will take some pics when the job is complete and give my opinion on how good/bad the system performs.
