FOR CATTLE

Posted on June 19, 2014 by | 5 Comments

P6100002

 

Trading a quart of gasoline
for six thousand gallons
of water.

 

 

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5 responses to “FOR CATTLE”

  1. Angeline Suze's avatar Angeline M | June 19, 2014 at 7:50 am | Reply

    I hope the trade is always available.

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    • John's avatar John | June 19, 2014 at 2:28 pm | Reply

      Me too, Angeline. This is a particularly good well that pumps 50-60 gpm drilled 18 years ago due to impacts from an upstream rock and gravel outfit to our old well. Since the rock and gravel outfit went belly-up 15 years ago, the old well has recovered enough to install a solar pump to fill the tank, hopefully next month. The old well is 26′ deep and worked efficiently with a gas driven centrifugal pump. The new well is 220′ deep with a 2hp submersible pump and will be used for backup.

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  2. Uncle Spike's avatar Uncle Spike | June 19, 2014 at 11:25 am | Reply

    What size bore hole does that pump, about 30mm (1 1/4″)?

    Ours is 50mm (2″) to a depth of 121m (390′) with an inline electric bore pump at 76m (245′). It delivers 10 metric tonnes (2,640 US Gallons) per hour of cold pure mountain water.

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    • John's avatar John | June 19, 2014 at 2:36 pm | Reply

      The discharge pipe is 1 1/4″, 2 hp submersible, 50-60 gpm. 6″ casing, 220′ deep through hard rock, then 20′ layer of cobbles, then back into hard rock. The old set up with a contractors’ centrifugal pump worked best. If the trough was half full, you put in a half-tank of gas filling the trough as it ran out of fuel. Water, water, water – more valuable than oil. Thanks for asking Spike 🙂

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  3. Uncle Spike's avatar Uncle Spike | June 19, 2014 at 9:44 pm | Reply

    Sounds pretty similar to ours then. And yes, if it dried up we’d be in trouble for sure…

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