Manmade Rain

  • James Holst
    Keymaster
    SE Minnesota
    Posts: 18926
    January 21, 2008 at 6:34 pm #645926

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    All I want is a little time to use my handheld GPS during the shoot.

    dd

    I see possibilities here! Do you cook too?

    super_do
    St Michael, MN
    Posts: 1091
    August 24, 2009 at 2:46 pm #205933

    I know it’s a little late….but this is what we came up with for watering our food plots. (before it decided to start raining). It only took one time a week ago Saturday to do this and we’ve gotten over 3 inches of the natural stuff since.
    This set up cost less than $40 to make and will dump about 200 gallons of water in about 10 minutes on our plots. Because of where our land is, we used a 4hp honda pump with 170 feet of hose to fill the tank from a pond. We can fill the tank in less than 3 minutes. I wish we would have done this a while ago.

    Brad Juaire
    Maple Grove, MN
    Posts: 6101
    August 24, 2009 at 2:57 pm #56143

    Great engineering super do! Thanks for sharing!

    lick
    Posts: 6443
    August 24, 2009 at 3:06 pm #56144

    good work super do

    i also have “ways” to water my plots

    robstenger
    Northern Twin Cities, MN
    Posts: 11374
    August 24, 2009 at 3:16 pm #56146

    Awesome!~

    Jami Ritter
    Hastings, MN
    Posts: 3067
    August 24, 2009 at 5:21 pm #56153

    Thats damn nice!! I like that a lot better than what I came up with..

    Jami

    corey_waller
    hastings mn
    Posts: 1525
    August 24, 2009 at 11:37 pm #56181

    you wanna really make it nice?
    after you use the pump to fill the tank, use the pump to run a sprinkler head.
    it takes us 5 min to fill the tank on a trailer then we pull it out to the plot turn on the pump and in and hour its empty. then we fill it up again move the trailer down the plot 70 yards and start over.
    we have found that we get a better “soak” when we started using the sprinkler
    try it

    lick
    Posts: 6443
    August 25, 2009 at 12:53 am #56186

    the secret weapon

    robstenger
    Northern Twin Cities, MN
    Posts: 11374
    August 25, 2009 at 11:23 am #56208

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    the secret weapon

    Cheater

    corey_waller
    hastings mn
    Posts: 1525
    August 25, 2009 at 1:29 pm #56227

    NICE!!! that is kinda cheating but I like it

    mpearson
    Chippewa Falls, WI
    Posts: 4338
    August 25, 2009 at 2:54 pm #56237

    That is really cool!

    Jami Ritter
    Hastings, MN
    Posts: 3067
    August 25, 2009 at 3:38 pm #56248

    Quote:

    you wanna really make it nice?
    after you use the pump to fill the tank, use the pump to run a sprinkler head.
    it takes us 5 min to fill the tank on a trailer then we pull it out to the plot turn on the pump and in and hour its empty. then we fill it up again move the trailer down the plot 70 yards and start over.
    we have found that we get a better “soak” when we started using the sprinkler
    try it

    Thats the setup I got corey, haven’t really had to use it yet, just played with it a bit… looking for more hoses as they go on sale this fall…

    Jami

    lick
    Posts: 6443
    August 25, 2009 at 4:37 pm #56255

    we built a water wagon also runs 2 sprinklers love it but never had to use it rained like crazy ever since we built it

    robstenger
    Northern Twin Cities, MN
    Posts: 11374
    August 25, 2009 at 5:54 pm #56266

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    it rained like crazy ever since we built it

    Should have built it earlier!

    suzuki
    Woodbury, Mn
    Posts: 18772
    August 25, 2009 at 8:15 pm #56301

    I heard Jami likes to utilize the golden shower technique but usually misses most of the plants trying to write his name..

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