tallyho8
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Gee, I need some rocks for the pond I'm building and I have to travel 500 miles to the Ozarks to get some. Looks like you don't have that problem.
10,000 gallon water tank delivered
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saltman said:
That is some seriously dry looking land, Saltman.
If your "soil" was anything like what I had when I lived in San Diego 21
y ago, you really needed that industrial hoe. It was harder than caliche
and I needed a star drill just to plant some shrubs in my front suburban
yard in North County.
Gravity flow is a great thing for your water supply.
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tallyho8,
If your driving 500 miles to get rocks from the Ozarks, that puts you about 10 miles north of my Dad's house, unless you pick a different road. He lives on Hwy 71 about 12 miles north of DeQueen, Arkansas.
He had me and my brother picking up rocks in our spare time, and that was so much fun! Later he paid to have the rest removed from his pasture so he could cut hay.
David from jax
If your driving 500 miles to get rocks from the Ozarks, that puts you about 10 miles north of my Dad's house, unless you pick a different road. He lives on Hwy 71 about 12 miles north of DeQueen, Arkansas.
He had me and my brother picking up rocks in our spare time, and that was so much fun! Later he paid to have the rest removed from his pasture so he could cut hay.
David from jax
Yes it's dry and hard the first foot or so is ok then you hit the hard pan, white stuff and then the granite. If you work the hoe right though you can dig through the decomposed granite. I had a really good operator I know do the work, he dug 1,057 feet averaging about 24 inches deep in about 14 hours. He also dug a small hole for my bathroom buildings septic and two lateral lines that were about 35 feet each.
Here are some photos I took today.
Here are some photos I took today.
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Great pictures saltman.
That is one serious trench he dug.
That is one serious trench he dug.
dieselfuelonly
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Wow, that is a lot of work he did, and man it looks so smooth and clean!
A good operator for sure
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A good operator for sure
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What's there to protect from fire in San Diego County?
Everything in the pictures looks like it's already burned out and barren compared to the Lush dense green woods trees forest grass and other heavy vegetation here in Ohio.
Everything in the pictures looks like it's already burned out and barren compared to the Lush dense green woods trees forest grass and other heavy vegetation here in Ohio.
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Probably his family and home and other non important stuff like that.LBrown59 said:What's there to protect from fire in San Diego County?
Everything in the pictures looks like it's already burned out and barren compared to the Lush dense green woods trees forest grass and other heavy vegetation here in Ohio.
Shees, what a question...Saltman, what part of SD are you in? The North part near Wild Animal Park?
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Wow! I'd love to have a 10,000 gallon tank about half way down my hill in back to collect ALL my rain water. I'd use aqueducts to run the downspout water down hill into the top of the tank. On This Old House hour they showed a house in San Antonia or Austin area with aqueducts running water to a big tank there.
If you don't have the radius, measure the distance around the tank (the circumference). The radius is then circumferenc/6.28.
I'd be inclined to use a 1 1/2" black poly pipe for your line to the tank instead of PVC. Poly is MUCH tougher. If you still go with PVC, I'd buy enough sand to cover over it before putting dirt back into the trench. For sure, use the heavy wall PVC for both sizes. Heavy wall poly is what is used on our well pump discharges to our houses all over Virginia. I laid about 1200' of it just along the ground and through the woods to get rain water from my 2 330 gallon tanks up here to my garden and orchard below. I've even hung it with tractor implements and not broken it.
What do they specify about keeping the water safe in the tank? You gotta really seal it off against insects. Think this may be one of the big things with cistern systems. Water down in the well stays safe because of movement in and out, and it stays at about 50-55 F. In an above-ground tank, the water could get pretty warm.
Ralph
If you don't have the radius, measure the distance around the tank (the circumference). The radius is then circumferenc/6.28.
I'd be inclined to use a 1 1/2" black poly pipe for your line to the tank instead of PVC. Poly is MUCH tougher. If you still go with PVC, I'd buy enough sand to cover over it before putting dirt back into the trench. For sure, use the heavy wall PVC for both sizes. Heavy wall poly is what is used on our well pump discharges to our houses all over Virginia. I laid about 1200' of it just along the ground and through the woods to get rain water from my 2 330 gallon tanks up here to my garden and orchard below. I've even hung it with tractor implements and not broken it.
What do they specify about keeping the water safe in the tank? You gotta really seal it off against insects. Think this may be one of the big things with cistern systems. Water down in the well stays safe because of movement in and out, and it stays at about 50-55 F. In an above-ground tank, the water could get pretty warm.
Ralph
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We have lots of homes here in OH too but nobody has a big water tank that looks like a silo in their back yard.3RRL said:Probably his family and home and other non important stuff like that.
CAl has some screwy ideas rules regulations & policies .