Well driller here today.

Little man helping his dad today with the well. So I took him down to the pond to run the backhoe for a moment. He got to pet horses, goats and hold a baby chick. Good kid.

What not to do with cement tile roof https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV1FXOjA7dU

Doing some calculations today....
My plan is to fill a 1200 gallon tank from a solar pump and allow it to overflow down to my pond.

First, we measured the elevation change from my future pond using this sight glass. It has a level superimposed over a reticle. My eyeball is 65" off the ground. From the pond to the tank is 569" and 780ft horizontal. This gives an expected flow is 168 gal / hr, 1600 gal a day in the summer as gravity feed with a 1" pipe.

Silly me, if i'd done the calulations first, I would have figured out that 1.5" I could get 546/hr... and 2" would give 1314/hr.


https://www.engineersupply.com/David-White-2X-Sight-Level-620-43-D620.aspx

https://www.copely.com/discover/tools/flow-rate-calculator/

Over the Counter Ivermectin by State: Is your State on this list? Why or why not?

• States with laws passed:
- Idaho
- Tennessee
- Arkansas

• States with legislation introduced:
- Maine
- New Hampshire
- Pennsylvania
- West Virginia
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- Georgia
- Kentucky
- Alabama
- Mississippi
- Louisiana
- Minnesota
- North Dakota

We were driving back from Georgia last evening and almost simultaneously I got a message from daughter's car that charging had stopped and my home assistant telling me the grid was down. A few seconds later, a text message from the power company telling me that the power was down. 5 minutes later on the nose, power was back on with the power company saying they had an equipment failure. I'm going to guess that they had a failure at a substation and were able to disconnect it remotely and patch us in to another substation. This is the "smart grid" and it's slick for sure.

FWIW, my house wasn't connected to the grid at that hour anyway, so it had no effect on us atall. Reminds me of one of the reasons we installed this off grid solar system. 8 years ago when we looked at solar, the grid was down here about 75 hours a year. in the past 3 weeks we've had the power off for 5 hours and some change.

In light of me playing footsie and "just the tip" with my chainsaw the other day, I present this video for your consideration.

For those following along in the chat... a Jet pump is a recirculating pump with a special foot valve. it works by pumping water back down the well into an ejector nozzle that helps push more well water up to the top. These were popular before submersible pumps were a thing.

So a suface pump can suck water about 20ft up.

A jet pump is on the surface but uses a venturi foot valve to suck / blow water up from deeper than 20ft.

A submersible pump is just a little smaller than the well bore and is lowered into the well below the water level. it's advantages are that it is self priming and cooled by the water it's pumping.

A schooling model that will feed the world!