Has anyone found a good way to go about this? Thinking maybe a trash pump reduced down to water hose out to sprinklers. The 3” from harbor freight has good reviews. Moves a little over 17,000 GPH and an inch of rain is a little over 27k gallons per acre. If ran once or twice a month do y’all think that would carry a plot between rain showers?
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I would go with the 2" instead of the 3", just due to the availability of hoses and fittings. I would also build a manifold and run multiple water hoses. Standard 3/4" is only rated for 16GPM @40PSI. Water source would be an issue depending on location.
once established most crops need 1" per week so if a sprinkler has a 60' throw you would need 7000g per week per sprinkler and need to run for 7:30 hrs. But being able to run multiple sprinklers at a time would shorten that time.
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HF trash pumps are well worth the money. I have the 2 and 3". For an acre you could simply flood it, dump water from uphill side or move discharge around a few times. Those pumps put a ton of pressure out and little holes in the line will act as sprinklers.Comment
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I tried it for a couple years with fasline and a water cannon rotating sprinkler. The sprinkler would water about a 150’ circle. It was fairly easy to water clover because you could just drag the fasline around with a golf cart to set up for your next area to water. Trouble came when you tried to water things like peas when they got uo a foot high or so. You couldn’t just drag the water line over them. I was planning on burying my water lines and just having places to hook up my sprinkler but I sold the place before that came to fruition. I believe that would have worked well though.Comment
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What are you planting?
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Not sure yet have thrown seed in after soil samples lime and fertilizer and sometimes get a good stand and sometimes nothing. We have a high deer population but can’t do much there.I Am open to ideas on what to plant that can handle high pressure and sandy soil. Would really like something to help with the turkeys as well as deer.Originally posted by bowhuntertx View PostComment
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Fall or spring plot? What’s your location
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We used a two in out of our stock tank and ran 1 1/2 line to the sprinklers, we had one in line and one as the termination of the pipe. Would water a 100 ft circle each. We used to water 15 acres like this. Now we flood irrigate with 2 inch black poly and 1/4 inch holes every 10 ft.Comment
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[QUOTE=bowhuntertx;16200478]Fall or spring plot? What’s your location
In the process of getting the tank expanded and closer to the potential spot so won’t be till fall. And just south of Cuero.Comment
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I have been working on a solution to this problem for the last couple years, and the part that always stops me is the volume of water needed to really make a difference on a decent size food plot. My plots are 3+ acres in size and that is an awful lot of water if you are shooting for an inch of "rain". Interested to see how this goes and if you can solve my issue.Comment
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This an existing food plot or currently pasture? If not an existing plot I would do buckwheat. It's a great soil builder to start improving that sandy soil, deer will eat it but won't hammer it, and turkeys love it for the bugging and the seeds when it matures.Originally posted by Marsh-Rat View Post
It's also great in subpar soil and will outrun any weeds as long as it has a fighting chance. It will mature in 90 days from planting, and depending on weather / irrigation you could plant it again end of July and get another round out of it. It's a great cover crop too since it gets very stalky once mature, and running a drag over it will snap over the plant, makes it easy to plant your fall plot into, you can just broadcast, drag , and then water (or in my case do a rain dance).
Then next spring you will have your fall plot working for you to keep weeds at bay, and you can more easily plant a more deer favored plot (cowpeas, sunn hemp, etc).
For sandier soil, no till plotting can work wonders over timeComment
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2" trash pump, sat inside a bucket to keep it off the bottom of the pond. Used PVC to build an elbow off the pump then ran the flex hose for 50 or so feet. At the end of the flex hose I went into multiple splitters, reducing the PVC pipe until I got down to sprinkler system size. Then I put all kinds of different sprinklers on there. I learned the best ones were the ones you actually put on the end of the hose, the smaller pvc ones got clogged up too easy because the water was dirty.
This worked great. I powered the pump from a generator. I would go put gas in it, turn it on and let it run. When it ran out of gas it cut off obviously. I figure it put out a ton of water on there. I would go run it every weekend if I could, maybe every other weekend at least.Attached FilesComment
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Can anyone take pictures of their pump set up and close ups on sprinkler system? I am really tempted to try this. About how much money over all were you invested in to irrigate an acre of land?Comment
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