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Originally Posted by hrpearce
Finally no more water carting  the pipe is in the ground from the cattle yards to my old pump house. I rebuilt an old tein diaphram pump that fits on the PTO of the tractor. It took 10 hours and 15 leters of diesel to pump 6000 galons of water across and fill both tanks. That shore beats carting 600 leters an hour on the ute.  |
I feel your pain, Robert. Until we bought our house 8 years ago we lived in a friend's farm house. When the rain water ran out we carted water from the nearest stand pipe 15 km away, two ton at a time...
I miss the farm, but not the summer weekend job of carting water!!!
