Rit
5 year old buck +
I admit I know very little about the principles of irrigation, water transport, and honestly if this will even work at all. I am at the infancy stage of just kicking rocks to see if this is an option. We have had rain exactly twice since June. It has been a rough summer and no relief in site. Even the Derecho that blew into the Midwest abruptly disappeared as it crossed into NW Ohio and dropped no rain. I have not yet determined parts, pumps, GPM, PSI requirements or anything else relevant to making this a valid plan.
I don’t want to spend a fortune to irrigate a field but my entire property is set up and predicated on deer feeding in a specific location every evening and the bedding is sorted in relation to the food. All stand locations are based on the movement from bedding to food for evenings and behind bedding in the mornings. I planted fall plots back in early August and it is ugly. I’ll have grains at some point but I wanted more attraction.
The basics that I have uncovered are as follows. I have two wells on the property. One well is used to source the house and the other is underneath a windmill and back in the day was probably installed for use as a water source for the barn. In the process of trying to irrigate the field I’d like to get water into the barn at the same time. I’d like to use the abandoned well as my water source. I am not sure of the depth of the second well as it’s not on the original plans that I received when I purchased the property. Those plans since lost seemed to have the first well at 275’. I know when they put in my geothermal I watched them drill and we had water at 20’. The second well is cased but has no pump. The windmill was used as the pump. I have power at the windmill and could get 220 there. One issue is the 2nd well sits in the middle of my home site so the first few hundred feet of transport will need to be temporary like fire house or some other easy to move and set up hose. The rest of the run can be whatever 3” PVC would be fine but buried line is not an option. The well is roughly 800’ from the field edge. I am only interested in irrigating 1 acre of the 9 acre field. The first 300’ of the run is almost flat but then it drops down about 2’ over 100 yards then relatively flat again. Ideally at the supply line in the field I would break this out into 2 or 3 branches and install a semi permanent irrigation system that I would remove for spring and fall plantings. This is where I am thinking 1” irrigation black plastic lines into some form of sprinklers. I figure I may need a few pumps trash pumps maybe and probably some sort of holding tank closer to the field not knowing what my well could support as far as irrigation. I could get power within say 100 yards of the field edge. Any thoughts or input? Or maybe it’s just a bad ideal all together.
I don’t want to spend a fortune to irrigate a field but my entire property is set up and predicated on deer feeding in a specific location every evening and the bedding is sorted in relation to the food. All stand locations are based on the movement from bedding to food for evenings and behind bedding in the mornings. I planted fall plots back in early August and it is ugly. I’ll have grains at some point but I wanted more attraction.
The basics that I have uncovered are as follows. I have two wells on the property. One well is used to source the house and the other is underneath a windmill and back in the day was probably installed for use as a water source for the barn. In the process of trying to irrigate the field I’d like to get water into the barn at the same time. I’d like to use the abandoned well as my water source. I am not sure of the depth of the second well as it’s not on the original plans that I received when I purchased the property. Those plans since lost seemed to have the first well at 275’. I know when they put in my geothermal I watched them drill and we had water at 20’. The second well is cased but has no pump. The windmill was used as the pump. I have power at the windmill and could get 220 there. One issue is the 2nd well sits in the middle of my home site so the first few hundred feet of transport will need to be temporary like fire house or some other easy to move and set up hose. The rest of the run can be whatever 3” PVC would be fine but buried line is not an option. The well is roughly 800’ from the field edge. I am only interested in irrigating 1 acre of the 9 acre field. The first 300’ of the run is almost flat but then it drops down about 2’ over 100 yards then relatively flat again. Ideally at the supply line in the field I would break this out into 2 or 3 branches and install a semi permanent irrigation system that I would remove for spring and fall plantings. This is where I am thinking 1” irrigation black plastic lines into some form of sprinklers. I figure I may need a few pumps trash pumps maybe and probably some sort of holding tank closer to the field not knowing what my well could support as far as irrigation. I could get power within say 100 yards of the field edge. Any thoughts or input? Or maybe it’s just a bad ideal all together.