MotorSeven
Elite Member
What's a tin horn?
I just completed a spring that a P/O had messed up. It was flowing out of some vertical limestone fissures so he built a block wall "tank" around it. All this did was cause it to blow out underneath. We dug it out with a backhoe and found where it was bubbling up vertically out of the rock. A local concrete place had some cull 4' in daimeter by 2' high concrete rings 4" thick. These things stack on each other, so we stacked 3 for a 6' tall tank, then backfilled around it with clay. The spring water came up inside about 2.5' before leaking thru the first joint. A overflow was drilled there to let the water flow on thru. I set a Harbor Freight $70 pump w/tank on a shelf inside the top ring, then built a insulated tin roof.
So far it is working fine, but anytime to attempt to "capture" a spring you need to only capture part of the flow. If you grab it all it usually finds a way around or under to escape. If you can clean it out and stick a 2-3" pipe with screen on the end into where the flow is exiting that usually lets enough escape around the pipe to let it continue to flow.
I did our own drinking water spring with a pipe jammed into a vertical fissure. I built a small dam around the pipe with hydraulic cement to back the flow up enough to flow down the pipe into a 55gal pickle barrel. Excess water will just flow over the low 4" dam & it has worked now for over 4 years. That flow is only a pencil width in size but always continuous. A tap at the bottom of the barrel with a short hose on it allows me to fill 5-6 5gal jugs at a time without running the barrel empty. A overflow pipe at the top of the barrel keeps water moving thru it so it does not stagnate.
I just completed a spring that a P/O had messed up. It was flowing out of some vertical limestone fissures so he built a block wall "tank" around it. All this did was cause it to blow out underneath. We dug it out with a backhoe and found where it was bubbling up vertically out of the rock. A local concrete place had some cull 4' in daimeter by 2' high concrete rings 4" thick. These things stack on each other, so we stacked 3 for a 6' tall tank, then backfilled around it with clay. The spring water came up inside about 2.5' before leaking thru the first joint. A overflow was drilled there to let the water flow on thru. I set a Harbor Freight $70 pump w/tank on a shelf inside the top ring, then built a insulated tin roof.
So far it is working fine, but anytime to attempt to "capture" a spring you need to only capture part of the flow. If you grab it all it usually finds a way around or under to escape. If you can clean it out and stick a 2-3" pipe with screen on the end into where the flow is exiting that usually lets enough escape around the pipe to let it continue to flow.
I did our own drinking water spring with a pipe jammed into a vertical fissure. I built a small dam around the pipe with hydraulic cement to back the flow up enough to flow down the pipe into a 55gal pickle barrel. Excess water will just flow over the low 4" dam & it has worked now for over 4 years. That flow is only a pencil width in size but always continuous. A tap at the bottom of the barrel with a short hose on it allows me to fill 5-6 5gal jugs at a time without running the barrel empty. A overflow pipe at the top of the barrel keeps water moving thru it so it does not stagnate.
