Water totes

[1930]

How much consideration should I give placement/height of these 350 gallon totes around my property for gravity fed irrigation with a watering wand?
I understand I’ll need to get them elevated but is there a tremendous difference in volume/ pressure of water if they were 6 feet off the ground versus 4 feet?
Thanks, I wish I had given schooling more consideration

 

[Eagle1]

Feet Head of Water to PSI • One foot of water at 62°F = 0.433 PSI, to find the PSI for any feet head not given in the table, multiply the feet head by 0.433.
Ten feet of water would exert a pressure of 10 X . 433 4.33 pounds per square inch. The same relation of height to pressure holds true, no matter what the area of vertical liquid column.

 

[1930]

I’m wondering why I am seeing pornographic images within this page? The second I went to make a screenshot it disappeared?
There is no one that looks at garbage like this in my home

 

[WranglerX]

I’m wondering why I am seeing pornographic images within this page? The second I went to make a screenshot it disappeared?
There is no one that looks at garbage like this in my home

Try clearing your web browser.... Never seen porno on this site....

 

[workinonit]

Tractor Porno

 

[dodge man]

I tried using a garden house and nozzle to water a small area of grass seed using an IBC tote. I’d lift it as high as I could with my tractor with forks and then I was downhill a little also. I don’t know an exact amount of drop I had but in the six feet range. It didn’t work well, not enough pressure. Now if you just want the water to flow, it was plenty. I ended up just emptying into a sprinkling can.

 

[rScotty]

I don't know about the porno. But I do have a photo of me hugging my old JD....

Figure each foot of height gives you half a pound per square inch (psi) of pressure. For comparison, most houses run in the 50 psi range.

You measure from the top of the water in the tote down to where the water comes out of the hose. So if you hoist the tote up six feet in the loader that will give you 3 psi out the hose, and for 4 feet up you get only 2 psi to push water out the hose. That's not much pressure, and although it will empty the tote pretty quickly through an open hose, it isn't enough pressure to run a sprinkler. However, it will run a drip or soaker hose just fine.

If you want it to spray, you put a small 12 volt RV pressure pump in line with the hose. Amazon has them for $50.

In towns, most folks like to run at least 50 psi at the faucets and showers, so water towers need to be over 100 feet tall, plus some extra height to make up for all the losses and leaks in any municipal system.
rScotty

 

[sea2summit]

Get a small pump, unless you get it very high you won’t have enough pressure to over come friction loss in the hose and have anything coming out of a wand. I used a 12v/500 gph bilge pump from Walmart for years and the pump didn’t fail it broke one hose fittings. For $20 worth it.

 

[mrmikey]

My daughters got a 250 horizontal poly tank roughly 5' from low water level to the ground height of her greenhouse. It works well for watering manually, she tried a soaker hose and it was no go, not enough pressure, manual it is for her.

 

[1930]

Not to change the subject but this is the image I saw earlier
Again I DO Not visit any dirty sites, I have no interest in that