Creek pumping update
When we first started using
the large
well pump to supply water to the irrigation sprinklers I was timid
about how long it should be used at one time.
I was concerned that too much
continued pumping might damage the motor, but little by little we kept
using it for longer episodes. Now it's not uncommon to see them going
for hours at a time.
Every now and then a
sprinkler head will get clogged with some creek debris, but it only
takes a minute to unscrew the hose and remove any offending algae or
sand.
What's most challenging is
getting 220 volts from the trailer to the creek. More on that in part 2
of this creek pumping series.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Zimmy --- awesome! I hope ours will last that long (though who knows how old it was when we got it.)
Ikwig --- We built our whole irrigation system around the pump. All of the other sprinklers we tried did clog up with sediment, but these impulse sprinklers are real troopers. I suspect our plants get a bit of additional nutrition by being watered with creek water.