Water pump for a grazing platform

[Cookie]

We are in the process of installing a new water system for our grazing platform. We currently milk 250, I have installed 600m of 50mm mdpe with 2 1000m 32mm rings coming off this. Does anyone have any recommendations for pump size/spec/suppliers? I have had one quote from a local company for a double variable speed booster set which has come in at 6k, a lot more than I was expecting and I've a sneaking suspicion it's far too much pump for what we need. TIA

 

[onesiedale]

01543 415200 - pedrollo pumps at Lichfield Staffs
Speak to Mark .

He will be chuffed to hear what pipework you have in place already! Will make the pumping a lot easier.
Go for a big pressure set - less of pump turning on/off.

 

[bigw]

These are pretty handy pumps we replaced a multistage pump with one, we are mainly 32mm pipe and it keeps up with a similar number of cows no bother.

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[In the pit]

Where’s your water coming from bore hole ,well,tank

 

[Cookie]

Where’s your water coming from bore hole ,well,tank

Borehole into a 20,000l tank

 

[In the pit]

Variable speed constant pressure pump , when water flows pump speeds up and as flow slows pump slows to a stop .theee can be set at a certain pressue

 

[vantage]

Borehole into a 20,000l tank

Variable speed constant pressure pump , when water flows pump speeds up and as flow slows pump slows to a stop .theee can be set at a certain pressue

Exactly what we have here, courtesy of Allpump.
The pasture pump and wash down pump are back ups for each other if one goes down.

 

[In the pit]

Exactly what we have here, courtesy of Allpump.
The pasture pump and wash down pump are back ups for each other if one goes down.

Just gotta make sure the right valves are used in the trough

 

[Wesley]

Variable speed constant pressure pump , when water flows pump speeds up and as flow slows pump slows to a stop .theee can be set at a certain pressue

Pretty sure there’s a FETF grant for this as well. The variable speed controller part, not the pump.

 

[vantage]

Just gotta make sure the right valves are used in the trough

Yes, got diaphragm valves in them, but got new troughs in the sheds, valves in them are causing the pipe work to vibrate, will need to change them.

 

[Lazy Sod]

The expression "grazing platform" is a new one on me but then, I sold my dairy herd 40 years ago come October.

 

[Wesley]

The expression "grazing platform" is a new one on me but then, I sold my dairy herd 40 years ago come October.

Its why we had to shut our cows in…we’ve only got fields for grazing, not a platform so we had no choice really

 

[Homesy]

Go to allpumpsdirect.co.uk and put variable in the seach box.
£6k for 250 cows is ridiculous.

 

[jimmer]

Makes me very appreciative of my spring fed gravity system

If I had to start from scratch I'd pump from well/bore to storage tank at highest point on farm and let gravity do the rest

 

[O'Reilly]

Makes me very appreciative of my spring fed gravity system

If I had to start from scratch I'd pump from well/bore to storage tank at highest point on farm and let gravity do the rest

Our farm is nearly flat, perhaps we should put one of these in

 

[nonemouse]

The expression "grazing platform" is a new one on me but then, I sold my dairy herd 40 years ago come October.

Well you wouldn’t be able to keep up now, you need the lingo to make money. Having grazing fields near the farm is no good you need a grazing platform. You can’t just move the electric fence for the cows, you need cell grazing and mob stocking. You can’t just fold them on the kale and long grass, you need brassicas and deferred grazing.

 

[vantage]

Our farm is nearly flat, perhaps we should put one of these in

We had an old petrol road tanker at the top of our farm, fed from the borehole. It worked ok by gravity, but when a lot of stock started drinking we ran into problems, this was with 32mm, probably need much bigger pipes on a long run.

 

[jimmer]

50 mm pipe out of 18000L tank in woods which is fed by spring, yoyos up and down back to yard
Heights are in feet

 

[Kiss]

Our borehole pump also pumps straight to the field on variable speed

From memory was £3/4k for 350 cows and 300 acres

 

[Cookie]

I went with a DAB esybox max pump in the end. Very happy with it, it was simple to install and is a monster of a pump really, fills a trough in no time. I put a redundancy crossover valve in so if one pump fails the other can do the job. Thanks for the advice