Crazy yet desperate irrigation ideas !

[Derrick Hughes]

what a completely pointless thread .
any body else but Clive starting such a stupid thread would have been laughed off. 130+ replies . there are a lot of sycophants on here .

I think the forum madness is driving Clive to drink
He now wants to meet up with all his old chums but cant remember their names
His post if you dont like it bog off was hilarious
Hes certainly livened the place up

 

[fieldfarmer]

what a completely pointless thread .
any body else but Clive starting such a stupid thread would have been laughed off. 130+ replies . there are a lot of sycophants on here .

Ha ha , I had to google what a sycophant is!

 

[glasshouse]

Around us in Bucks then , we had no proper rain since June 75 till Aug 28th. 1976.
having a large dairy herd at the time, we were desperate for anything a cow would eat, including pea straw, we pulled in from Lincolnshire. We were baling on farms several miles away, and some times alongside Welsh farmers, who must have driven 200 miles or more to get some straw. Thankfully the place was so dry , nobody dared burn anyway, so were pleased to shift it.

The days before the dreaded chopper

 

[renewablejohn]

So wiil all this dry weather alter your farm practice to use contour farming.

 

[Wombat]

So wiil all this dry weather alter your farm practice to use contour farming.

No but it will make me shell out on a sh!tload more drainage so we can try and get stuff planted in a wet autumn rather than have spring crops and dd what I can in the spring

Also if we got a wet year contours would turn into lakes so I will passing those

 

[Danllan]

I know this is nearly as unlikely as @Clive's original suggestion but... if you can get connections to a really, really large number of air conditioning / dehumidifier units, you would have a near unlimited source of licence-free water. Just saying...

 

[Steevo]

I know this is nearly as unlikely as @Clive's original suggestion but... if you can get connections to a really, really large number of air conditioning / dehumidifier units, you would have a near unlimited source of licence-free water. Just saying...

The green lobby will love that for sustainability!!

 

[Danllan]

The green lobby will love that for sustainability!!

They'll be fine by it, it can all be solar powered.

 

[Spencer]

Now that’s blue sky thinking ?

 

[Exfarmer]

They'll be fine by it, it can all be solar powered.

And I was just going to offer my services ?

 

[Steevo]

They'll be fine by it, it can all be solar powered.

Or better yet wind powered!!

Wind farms paid record £9.3m to switch off their turbines

The so-called 'constraint payments' have been declared a "national embarrassment" and a power management "disgrace" by campaigners

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[Danllan]

Or better yet wind powered!!

Wind farms paid record £9.3m to switch off their turbines

The so-called 'constraint payments' have been declared a "national embarrassment" and a power management "disgrace" by campaigners

www.telegraph.co.uk

Better still... hydro!

 

[Sheeponfire]

Will be using an umbilical next week to water all my spring crops and maize. I've got 2 million gallons of dirty water to get out of my lagoons

You should get some cows @Clive [emoji3]

Good post...

Made me laugh...

Yes @Clive cow's are the answer to all your probs...

 

[Farmer Roy]

Just for those who aren’t aware / haven’t thought about it much

1 mm of rain equals 10,000 litres per ha

So 25mm of rain ( 1 inch ) equals 250,000 litres per ha, or about 56,000 gallons per acre

 

[Clive]

what a completely pointless thread .
any body else but Clive starting such a stupid thread would have been laughed off. 130+ replies . there are a lot of sycophants on here .

it was supposed to be a stupid thread - i said as much in the first post

 

[Clive]

Good post...

Made me laugh...

Yes @Clive cow's are the answer to all your probs...

if we had cows they would be getting very hungry now - hardly any grass for the few horses we have here

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

if we had cows they would be getting very hungry now - hardly any grass for the few horses we have here

Well theres your problem right there.....Horses are the work of the devil..



It's not the 4 men of the apocalypse is it ?

 

[Will 1594]

if we had cows they would be getting very hungry now - hardly any grass for the few horses we have here

Clive what are your no till crops looking like , with all the work you have done ,with covers and om , and pressume you have kept moisture , you will have a decent look on ,

 

[Boomerang]

stupid = pointless

it was supposed to be a stupid thread - i said as much in the first post

 

[holywell farmer]

VERY silly idea (but that’s what forums are for) ..........


could you use a sprayer fed water by an umbilical system to irrigate crops ?

36m going as slow as possible (so extremely slow on cvt ) on auto steer so you could take the man out the cab with runs taking hours to complete just supervise (maybe not legal even ! ? )

umbilical system pumping water to the sprayer filling it as fast as it empties ?

utterly crazy idea and cost also probably crazy and unviable but could it work ?

Clive what about a potato irragtion system on your crops ?