Getting a date booked now is a lot better. 2020 - 2022 our processor was one year out. Now I am just in the habit of making a new date a year out when I drop pigs off for processing. 👍
What you have is what some refer to as a 'sticker' system.That is a good solid fiber tank and a reliable AIO style control head.Where and what do you source?
@@martyvanord984 I originally purchased the two filters and our well pressure tank from Aqua Science. I purchase parts from Softener Parts.com. The mazi valve I got from Drip Works. Is this what you were asking (source)?
@@martyvanord984From the well water goes to a cistern. Then the house has a water softener. The iron filters help a lot, they just require regular maintenance. There are other systems, like peroxide. The air filters have worked pretty good and air is free. 👍 Thanks for watching.
@@martyvanord984 Also when running a lot of water through filling stock tanks, water does not have enough contact time to remove all iron. It does get rid of the smell.
When this well is just sending water to the two ranch houses, it works good. The iron filters help out the water softeners. It is just too much iron for the softeners.
Thank you, thats exactly the tutorial I needed. I have couple questions if you don't mind. Once the stock tanks are filled, do you bring the pressure back down to domestic pressure? And do you need to keep having to bump up the pressure to activate the float ball at the stock tank to refill, or is the water now there, with less pressure? Hope that makes sense. Thank you in advance. Matt
@@Matt-bd5wc The pressure will be left at 90/110 all summer. We need it set there to push water up hill. When the cattle are moved back to winter pasture, which is mostly lower elevation than the well head, I will set pressure back down. There is enough elevation drop in the 5 miles of winter pasture pipeline run, that we need two pressure reducing valves. As for the floats, they work simply on water level. They are just larger versions of the old style floats used in toilets. Running high pressure is not ideal. It is hard on old pipes. It is just what we have to do in the summer because of were the well is and were summer pasture is.
It`s too hot in Louisiana to go without air conditioning after various common storms we can have at any time. While I had the money two years ago right before moving into my camper on a rural lot I got a large 300ah LiFeP04 battery, solar charge controller, cables, fuses, several solar panels and a 2000w ac inverter. Then I had to study a lot to figure out how to use it. I just ordered a 2nd better solar charger, more cables and extra panels and it will be enough to keep the battery charged and directly power my window ac. I bought portable solar power stations for everything else from my freezer to low wattage cookers, lights, fans etc. We were hit by two bad hurricanes that knocked out power for weeks even here in central Louisiana in 2020. I`m certainly prepping, building a garden, and covering the place with fruit trees...over 15 so far. And I keep an old large fridge built-in to the wall of the camper stuffed with various dry food staples to prevent insects and any mice that might sneak in. I`m about to buy a 300 dollar gas cannon for the neighbor who constantly disturbs the peace with his makeshift shooting range 200 feet through the woods behind me. The entire area is sick of it. If I don`t something worse will eventually happen when I snap. He messed up by doing it today in the HEAT...usually it`s "only" on nearly every pleasant day in spring, fall and winter...all day long. My cannon can shoot 17,000 times per bottle of propane and has an adjustable timer. 130d
If you know all the components you will need after an EMP, then buy extra spare ones, confirm they work, and configure them as the existing ones, then put them in a big faraday cage, unplugged, and maybe in the original packaging. Build a box to hold them all, and make it out of copper, or at least a thick copper mesh, that is earthed, and put it in the basement (I'd go full copper). Leave it closed for about 2 weeks after the last EMP, unless you have a way to measure any residual Solar Corpuscular Radiation. They should come out working and good to go. The 1859 event lasted about 8/9 days, remember that the Gamma radiation from a nuke can fry electronics, as well as the EMP (as well disintegrating, smashing, burning, baking, demagnifying, chemically denaturing them... so maybe bury that box under a few feet of soil too :).
It would be bad. It might also take a very long time to rebuild the electrical grid. If things turned to total chaos it might not get rebuilt. It would be a new world.
@@thewindmillgarden I completely agree. Not only would all the stuff like Transformers (the big things on Electricity poles) - essential for Domestic and Commercial Electricity, but the parts that run the machinery to make them, not to mention the machinery to get the NUke/Coal/Solar generators going again. Reliable Analog wind up watches might become essential agian, probably horses (look at the building of the Bismark, it used Donkeys - it was only 90 years ago.. ALso letters and mail may make a recovery - its a hell of a thing :)
@@thewindmillgarden Transformers (so I am told) are very difficult to build (especially at scale), they require uncommon ingredients, take a loong time to build (by skilled people), and if you rush it, they are liable to explode the week you get them online. It is actually the power providers duty to provide redundancy, I wonder if anyone is building a bunch They better be... Also Considering what happened at Fukushima, which was ultimately caused by water pipe connectors were incompatible with the Fire Truck connectors, imagine the mayhem that will be caused when most transistors or Electric Control Modules will be dead, are all the Nuclear facilities up to scratch, and is someone on that right now (it being "name every system at the (Nuclear Power) plant which could cease, become unpredictable or cause some kind of danger if small processors or even Transistors in the system failed".
You don't necessarily need to take air out of the tank. A bladder tank needs to be 2lbs under cut in.. for example if your pump comes on at 30psi and shuts off at 50psi, you would want 28psi on the bladder in the tank. If you're running a 40/60 you want 38psi in the bladder
Thats right. Today I dropped out well pressure from 80/100 to 40/60. Dropped tank from 78 psi to 38 psi. Just can’t get all details in on a 60 second short video. 👍
Not kidding! The doomsday situation you’re concerned of might it sound far fetched to some but I completely support. The only question I wonder is if everyone does this.. then what would the world be like
I think if we all make small preps. Do what we can with what we have. We will all be stronger, and our society will get through an EMP or CME much better. Remember community and help neighbors out.
I’ve only ever seen one pod. When I was 6 I found one while out with my older cousin, he told me it was the molt of an alien creature. He had gullible me running back home, and fearful of this rogue monster for days! Anyway they’re very cool looking, and I had no idea you could eat them. Solid Video!
Yea. I am a big windmill fan. Simple mechanical motors. Nothing can stop them. They just work. Solar has come a long way. I don’t think it will take an EMP or Solar Storm though.
I have a well in show low az that was drilled in 1980 and set up for a windmill that never got installed. I built an A Frame to hold a old dual belt pump jack that is 6ft over top of well head sucker rod stuffing box I use a 240v generator to run the 240v electric motor with 2.5" dual pulley that runs belts up to 10.5" pulley on pumpjack I get 3.5 to 4 gpm out of this set up Well is 300ft deep 145ft static level Windmill pump set at 250ft Well makes around 25-30 gpm I use it to water my cabin 200ft away and my pond 1500ft away down hill Would love to get your advice if i should put in rps solar well pump as well as any reccomendations
Wow. I like your style. It’s not everyone who knows what a pump jack is, let alone uses one. We have windmills on the ranch and an old antique pump jack the old timers used when there was no wind. I myself have never used it. I do not know solar, but a lot of ranchers here have installed solar pumps and are very happy with them. You should check out RU-vid channel Engineer 775. That guy knows solar and well pumps. Thanks for watching. I am working on a windmill/drip irrigation video right now. Come back and check it out in a few days.
I do believe in controlling weeds by not allowing them to go to seed. If they so get to that stage I make sure the entire plant gets put directly in the trash.
what happens when your tank pressure is the same as the well pump pressure 50psi each? Will the tank fight the well pump and lower the overall pressure? I'm trying to understand what the well pressure tank is for. I've never had a well and cistern before sorry if this is a dumb question.
The pressure tank supplies constant water pressure. Also the tank prevents the well pump from short cycling (On/Off). It is better for a pump to just run. The start and stop is hard on the pump motor and will wear it out faster. Another help from the tank is to reduce water hammer. If the tank bladder fails and the tank becomes water logged (No Air) the pump will start turning on and off constantly, every time a little water is called for. The 2-3 PSI below cut-in is to provide water while the pump is starting - without it, pressure will drop to zero (or very nearly) every time when water runs out but the pump is still spinning.
