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
Water pump for a grazing platform
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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.
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.
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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- Pembrokeshire
Where’s your water coming from bore hole ,well,tank
Borehole into a 20,000l tank
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- Pembrokeshire
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.
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- Pembrokeshire
Just gotta make sure the right valves are used in the trough
Pretty sure there’s a FETF grant for this as well. The variable speed controller part, not the pump.
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
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- Warminster Wiltshire
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
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- North West Devon
Go to allpumpsdirect.co.uk and put variable in the seach box.
£6k for 250 cows is ridiculous.
£6k for 250 cows is ridiculous.
jimmer
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- Location
- East Devon
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
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
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- North yorks
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.
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
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- Location
- East Devon
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
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- North west
Our borehole pump also pumps straight to the field on variable speed
From memory was £3/4k for 350 cows and 300 acres
From memory was £3/4k for 350 cows and 300 acres