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tagwex Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 5188 Location: Co. Wexford
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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Just what are you looking at? _________________ “It’s my field. It’s my child. I nursed it. I nourished it. I saw to its every want. I dug the rocks out of it with my bare hands and I made a living thing of it!”
This boy can really sing http://youtu.be/Dgv78D2duBE |
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Geranimojess Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 22 Jun 2010 Posts: 1403 Location: N/W Sligo
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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Not again...look Sonny...ask your Elders...  |
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tagwex Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 5188 Location: Co. Wexford
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe it was that masculine jawline of yours in the mirror. _________________ “It’s my field. It’s my child. I nursed it. I nourished it. I saw to its every want. I dug the rocks out of it with my bare hands and I made a living thing of it!”
This boy can really sing http://youtu.be/Dgv78D2duBE |
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Blowin Rank attained: Vegetable garden tender
Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 930 Location: Drimoleague, Co Cork
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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Beg pardon. The '...jess' confused a simple foreigner. _________________ A novice gardener on newly cultivated, stoney ground. |
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Geranimojess Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 22 Jun 2010 Posts: 1403 Location: N/W Sligo
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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Blowin wrote: | Beg pardon. The '...jess' confused a simple foreigner. |
Jessie James or Jessie Ownes wouldn't let you off as lightly...just as well you caught me on a good Night...  |
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tagwex Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 5188 Location: Co. Wexford
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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Someone told me that you are a big Jessy! _________________ “It’s my field. It’s my child. I nursed it. I nourished it. I saw to its every want. I dug the rocks out of it with my bare hands and I made a living thing of it!”
This boy can really sing http://youtu.be/Dgv78D2duBE |
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Good guy Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
Joined: 11 Feb 2013 Posts: 2593 Location: Donegal
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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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I'd be interested to hear about what kind of pump you buy. I'm getting tired of carrying watering cans up the steps from the water butt to the veg plot. Also, what dimensions are those ibc tanks? |
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tagwex Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 5188 Location: Co. Wexford
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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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They are approx. a 1000mm cube and they hold 1000 litres. Not getting out of bed to go measure mine in the dark!!! _________________ “It’s my field. It’s my child. I nursed it. I nourished it. I saw to its every want. I dug the rocks out of it with my bare hands and I made a living thing of it!”
This boy can really sing http://youtu.be/Dgv78D2duBE |
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Good guy Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
Joined: 11 Feb 2013 Posts: 2593 Location: Donegal
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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 11:01 pm Post subject: |
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The morning will do! |
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Blowin Rank attained: Vegetable garden tender
Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 930 Location: Drimoleague, Co Cork
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 5:53 am Post subject: |
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Just a thought, GG, but I was wondering how much higher your veg plot is from the building/shed that'll be catching the water. If, for example, it's only say 6ft you could mount your tank just below the gutter and use gravity plus a length of pipe to transfer the water to where you need it.
You can also buy pumps that are powered by an electric drill (or, I suppose, any other small electric motor that you might salvage from an old hoover etc.).
One word of caution - one cubic yard of water = one ton! _________________ A novice gardener on newly cultivated, stoney ground. |
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AJ Rank attained: Ash Tree

Joined: 30 Jan 2008 Posts: 218 Location: West Cork
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 7:42 am Post subject: |
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Good guy wrote: | I'd be interested to hear about what kind of pump you buy. I'm getting tired of carrying watering cans up the steps from the water butt to the veg plot. Also, what dimensions are those ibc tanks? |
Good question, Good guy, you beat me to the draw. I have 25ltr drums hook up to my downpipe, pain in the rear carrying them to the water butt and then getting them up on to it. 5 pallets high.
So here's my plan, stick a hose in to the drums at the house and stick the other end of the hose into the IBC tank.
Problem, what kind of pump do I need ?, what voltage ?, what wattage ?. Would a bilge pump for a boat be the job, lidl, aldi, what's the best move. _________________ vegandflowertime.blogspot.ie |
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AJ Rank attained: Ash Tree

Joined: 30 Jan 2008 Posts: 218 Location: West Cork
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 7:53 am Post subject: |
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Blowin wrote: | Just a thought, GG, but I was wondering how much higher your veg plot is from the building/shed that'll be catching the water. If, for example, it's only say 6ft you could mount your tank just below the gutter and use gravity plus a length of pipe to transfer the water to where you need it.
You can also buy pumps that are powered by an electric drill (or, I suppose, any other small electric motor that you might salvage from an old hoover etc.).
One word of caution - one cubic yard of water = one ton! |
Morning Blowin,
Salvage, now that's a word that gets me excited. . Besides making up a pedal powered water pump and pedaling like a buoyo every time I need to transfer water, , what every day or fairly common implement would be suitable for this purpose.
What about the pump from a washing machine, must be plenty of them lying around for free, any other ideas, _________________ vegandflowertime.blogspot.ie |
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Good guy Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
Joined: 11 Feb 2013 Posts: 2593 Location: Donegal
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 9:24 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the suggestion AJ, but the gutter is way too far below the plot. At a guess, I'll have to raise the water by at least 4 metres to get it into any kind of useful tank in the veg garden.
I wouldn't mind buying a small pump, if that's what it would take (pump, water, electricity, outside, shock, death......)
What does Ponddigger have to say on the subject? |
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Blowin Rank attained: Vegetable garden tender
Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 930 Location: Drimoleague, Co Cork
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 10:22 am Post subject: |
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I've actually got one of the pumps that are powered by an electric drill - never used it though - but, by implication, any power source, e.g. hoover, you could attach to the pump's spindle in lieu of the drill chuck would do the job. Even some sort of belt arrangement, rather than a feat of engineering, could suffice.
Alternatively, you've mentioned washing machines as having pumps and there's something that whirrs away in freezers which might be pumping something round. Flow rate needn't be huge although, even in a small pipe, distance equals weight and may govern the size of pump required.
Final thought is the old idea of a wind pump that folk used to employ to draw well water in the old days. No knowledge of the technology involved I'm afraid. _________________ A novice gardener on newly cultivated, stoney ground. |
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Keeks Rank attained: Silver Birch Tree

Joined: 14 Apr 2012 Posts: 168
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 11:07 am Post subject: |
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Doing a quick google for solar powered pumps found this
http://purchase.ie/solar-powered-water-butt-pump
Now there are plenty of options out there, so search about
It will be option like this that I will look into when I get my ibc setup to get water around my garden for a simple reason I plan to have more than one ibc and getting power to all locations will probably be just as expensive as getting solar powered pumps. |
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