Sprayer shed and store.

Steevo

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Location
Gloucestershire
Thanks. Sorry was just curious :) Does borehole fill it quite quick then?

Here have 2 x 4-5000l tanks running off mains but hard to get more than 11-12000l total output in a day. On the limit of what we need.
 

Fraserb

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Location
Scottish Borders
Thanks. Sorry was just curious :) Does borehole fill it quite quick then?

Here have 2 x 4-5000l tanks running off mains but hard to get more than 11-12000l total output in a day. On the limit of what we need.

One advantage of working on a dairy farm, have 100,000 litre of storage at main farm, 40,000 at 2nd farm and 30,000 at a 3rd block, all borehole filled, funnily enough running out of water doesnt work as an excuse for an early finish, sometimes even have neighbours nipping in for a fill
 

Daniel

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This is an ex-dairy farm so there's plenty of water, only time it can run short is when we're washing the poultry shed, prob using 30k litres a day across 3 washers then.

Haven't used this tank yet, tomorrow's T3's will be the first time. Before this I had 3 IBC's linked together and a 2500 litre sprayer and they were always full by the time I got back to the yard. The problem with them was you had to suck out of one IBC and the pipes linking the other two IBC's to it couldn't get the water back into the 'main' IBC quick enough. I'm very much looking forward to using my new setup!
 

chickens and wheat

Member
Mixed Farmer
Some would have a bigger storage to try and warm up the borehole water.

I have a borehole and a much larger tank, but the tank is old and nearly scrap so Im deciding what size to get a new tank.
also with a big tank you can set the ballcock on slow so as to not steal water pressure from the poultry/shed washers etc if spraying at a high demand time
 

Daniel

Member
Re the filler pipe, i am going to do something similar but think the tap will need to be a 3 way to suck air once the load is full to clear the line?

That's a good idea, at the moment it just drops the bit of clean water on the floor. I had all these bits in the shed so that's what I used but this joint needs improving as it rotates a bit each time you connect the sprayer and you can hear air hissing in:

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Maybe a straight up camlock fitting and let the camlock rotate or a longer flexi pipe so it can give. Was trying to avoid long pipes laying about though. I think I'll also make some kind of steel frame up to support the pipe where it comes out of the concrete.
 

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