rain coming

hrpearce · #1 08-06-09, 01:14

the old house tank was past it's use by date so the boys and I started to dismantle it. We have the roof off and half the panes unbolted (50 bots per join ).I have to dig down another 600 mm so the new tank will fit under the pipe but the rain is a bit early to fill it.

hrpearce · #2 27-06-09, 00:22

Missed another 10mm but now we are ready to catch the lot. This tank is sealed so I wont find dead birds in it like I found in the bottom of the old one

I didn't tell Vicki about that find

cliff · #3 27-06-09, 03:14

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Originally Posted by hrpearce

Missed another 10mm but now we are ready to catch the lot. This tank is sealed so I wont find dead birds in it like I found in the bottom of the old one

I didn't tell Vicki about that find

Reminds me of the time just after I got married (26 years ago) and we were living in a rural area in New Zealand. We decided to clean out the house tank and found the swallows had been nesting in it so we found rotten eggs, dead chicks and a dead possum that was quite ripe in the bottom and yes we were drinking it for a few months before hand and never got sick!

aj.lec · #4 27-06-09, 06:36

We had a dead peacock in our hot water overhead feeder tank
only found out he was there when the water coming out of the taps started to smell

We have had 19mm in the last week

cliff · #5 27-06-09, 13:41

last night we got about an inch of rain but the forecast is for fine sunny days and cold nights for the next week or so. A return to Queenslands normal winter weather "Hooray"!!!! at long last as it has been an unusual wet time of late.

hrpearce · #6 29-08-09, 06:20

Finally no more water carting

the pipe is in the ground from the cattle yards to my old pump house. I rebuilt an old twin 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.

hrpearce · #7 29-08-09, 23:06

Just my luck, pump the tanks full then get 9mm of rain overnight and it's still raining.

Howard · #8 30-08-09, 10:49

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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!!!