find a old boat trailer work nice for pump trailer

In my experience with irrigation on our family farm , I learned that once you get everything çonnected and primed be sure to remove your sprinkler head spray tips on the first initial water run! It allows any dirt or plumbing debris to be flushed out and not stopping up the tips!

Josh, three things come to mind right away. First you need to make sure you have enough sprinkler heads so that you keep enough water moving through the pump to keep it cool. The goal would be to have total sprinkler output match pump output. If that aluminum pump housing heats up you will be rebuilding it. Second I would suggest a check valve on your intake pipe to keep from back flowing into pond when you shut it off. Third, for your outflow on the pump I would put a cam lock fitting that then goes to a pvc elbow then another cam lock then to hose. This will keep the lay flat hose from pinching and allow you to change the direction your hose is running by simply opening cam lock and rotating 180 degrees.

I love the way you turn every single little task on your farm as almost a party. But mostly important: You go down to the beginners level and teach us all those details in a way that (my guess!) no one would miss a thing. Thank you for that! Greetings from Portugal.

I love when a kit comes with some tools needed.. looked fairly easy just a bit time consuming.. Have a wonderful evening🌻🌻🌻🌻

Nice set up! Good to see the Mrs giving you a helping hand.

Did you just say "the best way is to keep the cattle moooving?" 😂😂😂 Good video Josh. I learned a lot from this video👍

Great job this morning! It is always a joy to have things work the 1st time you hook them up. I always enjoy watching your vlog and it is nice to see Mrs. Stony Ridge at times too. Have a great day on the farm, take care and God-bless.

Those pumps set up on a trailer with an IBC make a great mobile fire fighting unit on farms and homestead properties.

Josh, Take the fitting loose on top of the pump and turn it 90 degrees to the right or left for the pump output to be at a right angle from the pump input. It will work so much mor efficiently

There you go😊 Nice to see that you making a dual purpose of it. For watering, filling a tank, firefighting equipment. To the missis: hope every thing goes well with the arm.

Another good idea would be to install a drain pipe in the top of the damn about a foot from the top so when the level reaches the pipe it will drain instead of running over the top. This way you can divert the excess water exactly where you want it to go instead of it sitting in a problematic area and it will be a better way to prevent a washout

Great to see another great NZ product being used I hope it serves you well, I can remember seeing a great mass of "K" line rolled up in one of the paddock's on one of my Brothers Farms it must have been 100's of metres long thankfully I was not on site the day it had to be reset out. Best wishes from NewZealand Graham

Great job enjoyed that, looks like y’all have fun with everything you do love it !!!!

Another benefit of this setup is an emergency fire fighting system in a pinch.

@MichaelVandeburg

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe if you have a couple hours notice. Most fires will be a mile down the road time you got it setup. Usually the wind is blowing like a bitch too. Best thing to fight a fire on a farm is a deep plow and a big tractor that will turn that dirt over. Then you go around and around whatever you are trying to save.

Good Luck on getting the grass growing at the pond! Praying for rain! we are dry over in the East Tennessee mountains as well!

Excellent video, I was just as excited as you were! Something tells me that Popcorn could be pulling this rig in the future! WOOOo!!!

We've been in a drought here in Maryland also for the past 6 weeks. Very little rain. Your setup looks good. Keep up the good work! 😉👍🏾

Now that's what I call an irrigation hose! Great idea !Your gonna have plenty of horses in no time also good pump

Josh, I'm glad to see Mrs. Stoney Ridge again. From what you've said, I presume her arm is healing well. Sure glad to hear that, to! My son and I were out of town for a couple of weeks visiting family in Arkansas and Oklahoma -- 2 days' driving each way, so no spare time to visit anyone else. We had a safe trip, although we did have encounters (but no collisions) with a few nut-job drivers -- a Harley nearly took off the left-front fender of our rental vehicle, and another SUV changing lanes, going too fast, no signal at all, well that would have been a bad one, so thank God, my son was able to avoid the other driver's carelessness! Glad to see things coming together on the farm.

Great system! Y'all looked so happy when it worked.

hope MRS.STONEY RIDGE gets better,, wish i was down in yer neck of the woods as its wet and coold up here in central u.p. of mich, thanks fer the video

@joankamp4513

4 жыл бұрын

I'm in the lp of Michigan. Wet, cold and windy today.

Looks like a good system. I use a similar pump on my farm, but need to explore different sprinklers to distribute more water

@JM-yx1lm

4 жыл бұрын

I bought thise cheap sprinkler guns on ebay. The 1.5" is tge best for me..shoots a heavy stream about 100' does not take long to soak the ground.

The walking wounded....award that woman a purple heart!!!!!

Glad to see Mrs. Stoney Ridge is on the mend! Pretty cool setup for mobile watering!

That should work well for you. Its a good investment. Its always nice to see Mrs Stoney Ridge is healing up ok.

Good stuff Josh, to help keep track of your PVC cleaner and cement cans duct tape the two cans together side by side that way when you find one you have found the other. The challenging part is to avoid dropping either of the brushes in the dirt, don't ask how I know that ! :)

@joeh4295

4 жыл бұрын

Can't tell you how many times I've found either cement of primer but not the other, extremely frustrating!!

The union goes close to the pump. you can use a piece of plywood for extra sprinklers.

Hard to see happy person like you in this crazy world.God bless you!

I was never around it much was too young my granddad had about 20 acres of commercial strawberry 🍓 and sweet corn at that time he used Gorman Rupp pump 6 or 8 inch with an slant 6 chrysler engine for power and for lipt and pressure to irrigate the crops from A drainage ditch that held water year long at the time....

You're a lifesaver with this video I've been fighting find a good way to irrigate out of a pond for a couple years and definitely going to buy the same setup you got I do about 2 Acres so I think I'll get two systems and tee off turn one on let it work and then turn the other side on thank you so much Kearny farms and markets

Bro respect your work! For environment check zeolite! Hats off good wind my brother!

Very nice and simple set-up. Looks great!

Lov that farmer smile of accomplishment... it’s an exonerating feeling.. had the same feeling when I got my 2014 WR Long grapleator work off my third remote off my old ford tractor..

I have done numerous water systems here in Ontario and the past few years I have used quick couplers, real easy and no air leaks, also used aa honda pump that needs no foot valve, self priming

Great video, The instructions were very good. I like the results. Cheers

Great job brother!! A secondary filter on the outlet line is recommended. The sprinklers passages are small and can get clogged easily. (Need plastic surgery skill to take apart) This pump is made to empty flooded basements, an such.

Great job Josh. Your farm is going to be green quick. Love watching your videos.

Hey Great seeing u Mrs Stoney Ridge hope your arm feels better soon. Thank u guys for sharing.

Hi from Oamaru New Zealand. We deal with a 4200 acre dairy farm in dry country which uses a combination of center pivot and K-line. They have 2 Can-Am Defenders shifting these 16 hrs per day.

Good to see the missus out and about God bless you both

Hey Josh hey to mrs. Stoney Ridge thank you for the video I enjoyed it and misses Stoney Ridge this is for you just keep pushing on don't let life get you down you'll get better woo

Looking good! Get well soon Mrs. Stoney Ridge!

Hey Josh, just thought I would throw this at you, one thing we have always done is to pull a spike harrow ( which a chain harrow would probably work too) over our pastures after we rotate the cattle off one and move them to another one to help distribute the manure move evenly over the pasture to help with the fertilization process, seems to work really well, been doing it as long as I can remember and I'm 52 now and have never had to buy fertilize! Like I said, just thought I would mention this incase you might be interested in trying when you get cattle.

I toted enough irrigation pipe in my lifetime to know I never want to do it again. At one time I had over one mile of 6 and 8 inch 30 ft long aluminum pipe. We ran hard hose style "travelers" irrigating crops. Thank God for center pivot irrigation.......... Nothing beats rainfall but when it means the difference between surviving and not sometimes you have to tote pipe. Hard times and hard days. Best part was when we got through and the water was flowing you got to jump in the pond to cool off. Hope your wife mends quickly. Broken bones are a pain (no pun intended) . If you want to upgrade your irrigation watch the auctions for aluminum pipe a good pump and a "hard hose" style traveler.

That was cool. Now you have your irrigation system. Really enjoyed the video. Thanks 👍👍👍❤️

Now THAT looks like a fun project!

Put a rain shed and sun screen over the pump. You will thank me in a year. You can mount it to the pallet and using some fence hinges design the roof to move out of the way to allow you overhead access if you need it. On the water inlet and outlet you want 2feet of straight pipe before your hoses. This is based on pump best practices. This will help prolong the life of the pump internals.

That seems like a pretty good setup Josh, hope it serves you well! That pump will also provide emergency fire fighting capabilities!

Hi, if you collect them silica packages you can use them for all kinds if things, from keeping seeds dry to keeping/getting front windows of your cars dry.. Joe from Germany

Nice to see Mrs Stoney Ridge Again.

We were lucky enough to get some of that cool weather down here also

Great video, we are digging a pool this fall, I will need to do the exact same thing. Great video.

Good job Josh! Nice to see Mrs Stoney Ridge too...

Enjoyed this video Josh. Very interesting, informative, and entertaining as always. Hopefully we will get a little rain this weekend. We certainly need it in northern Durham County. Hope your grass starts growing around the pond.

I am getting rain in my part of NC almost everyday for the next few days to help my rye grass I seeded and food plots

Hi Josh you should use a flexible pipe on the inlet with your filter so you can just throw it in the pond I have the same exact pair but I throw mine into the canal

THEY WERE MADE IN WAIMATE south Canterbury New Zealand by the KIRK family . they tow them with the 4x4 motor bikes .mainly on dairy farms were the centre pivots don't reach .

Here's what works for me, because I have so many things I want to do when I get to the hardware store I see something for a different project and always forget at least 1 thing for the project at hand, just take photos of what you have or maybe that area where the part is missing...just remember to look at your photos while shopping!!!,many gallery app's allow you to create albums, I have shopping list, do list, want list, it's not hard to edit, select and then move the photos to the proper album JUST DO IT!!!

Glad to see you are using PVC primer, too many rely on the glue alone, I've seen the consequences. Also as a kiwi I glad to see K-line being used in the States

Very very nice way of watering back where it require......so cool Josh....

Handy stuff to have. You may want to think about a floating pickup when you switch to the non-collapsible suction hose.

“It never hurts to have a little real world activity going on”. The stand-out line of the video. LOL

save the desiccant packages and put them in your tool boxes.

@reeblesnarfle5443

4 жыл бұрын

Or beans storage... or rice... but I guess most preppers use oxygenators to remove air...😳?

Wooo! Love you guys and the new irrigation system!

Okay Josh...you got me! I'm in the process of doing the exact same thing on 80 acres in Alabama.

What a good feeling . Your just beaming.🤠

Excellent video Josh! I don't recall hearing it in your vid..., but it's very important to point out that the INLET (suction) side of any water pump is plumbed with solid/rigid pipe and not flexible. Also, You gave that PVC about an hour and 45 minutes WAY too much time to cure. PVC joints need maybe 15 minutes or so to cure before you put the pressure to them. Definitely don't need 2 hours. Hope Mrs. D's wrist is healing nicely... :-)

Living vicariously through your videos here in Orlando. Fitting was a 45 degree coupling. Use Teflon paste, so much easier. Float the screen on a jug, very easy. Get a set of ratcheting PVC cutters. Your pots are way too far apart to allow for significant overlap. You’re going to have green circles. Loving your videos so much. Keep up the good work. 👍

To prime the pump. I put a “Tee” with a riser/ upwards piece of pipe with a threaded cap about halfway between the pump and the water supply. . I unscrew the cap and use a bucket to fill the pipe . Thread the cap back On Abd your good

Hey man! Thank you for the awesome videos ! I’m a Brazilian farm that became your fan ! Good ideas buddy.

mooo! rocking.. you can bury a few 6in pipes just under the surface of the top of the dam. the when the rains come, water will exit through those overflow ducts. usually rain maxes out around 3-4 inches per hour. so you can add tunes as needed. the flow per tube can be measured different ways. or calculated from a standard manual. they should be sloped downward about 10 to one to keep flow high. but that includes water height above the pipes hich adds preasure. your milage may vary. surly the cows know. but they never let on.

Great video! ! Always enjoy watching your channel. Great you are so down to earth. Can't remember the depth of pond but if your pulling water from a couple of feet off bottom, if you stock pond you could pull some of the trash water off bottom to provide fertilizer for grass to. Just a thought. Keep making great video's like this.

Great video, nice setup.. I have same pump and I made my own sprinklers out of 20 foot one inch PVC. Drilled two 1/16th holes every 6 inches in a V pattern, flexible tubing in between each 20 foot section I have 8 sections of 20 foot PVC.. I can add more.. I added a T fitting and pressure gauge and full throttle I have 90 psi water pressure. And as of now I'm pumping water 200+ feet to my 8 homemade sprinkler.

Make sure when freezing temps hit to take that lower black plug out on the pump housing so it does not freeze and crack.

Great idea-I love it!

Very cool setup. A great way of using your resources. Hope your grass takes root

Mrs Stoney Ridge is the best. Great team work. Get better soon. :)

“Semi trash water pump” well at least their honest

I run my “small engines” on propane, easy conversion. Runs extremely clean. Even my string trimmer and lawn mower (push type) on a 1 pound bottle.

@larsandersson4126

4 жыл бұрын

Have you a video on that?

@JM-yx1lm

4 жыл бұрын

Yep and you can easily refill the small 1lb bottles.

@michaeldubya

4 жыл бұрын

Tobbe Andersson There are multiple videos on this platform. I use a el cheapo torch for the valve. Modified it to accept a pvc hose, run through the fuel fitting on the carburetor.

That is a nice system you have purchased and it should make it easy to transfer water from one pond to the next and do it easily. Your wife should know how to operate the system so if something happens to you where you can't move the water around she can do much of that work herself. I like the way you have the lines setup to water the grass and you definitely need the unit setup on a trailer so you all can move it around easily.

I stayed with ya for over 6 minutes. That’s all I got. Maybe later I’ll try again.

As usual another entertaining video, love Y’all and Your channel!

Nice rig, its should do you well. I also have two items for you. One, have you seen that Northern have a cart frame and you add the top. I believe the top size is around 4 X 10. Two, before I retired we used ponds to water the grass at are buildings we took care of. The feed side of the pump we use flex line. To keep the feed end of the pipe off the bottom we would tie one or two one gallon bottles (lids on and empty) with rope. The length of rope would determine how deep the feed end is under the water. This did two things for us. One, it keep the end off the bottom. Two because the system was in for the season and did not move it keep the end in water as the level of the pond went up or down.

That was very informative! Thank you.

I bought one from amazon came with a heavy duty flexible inlet pipe I bought another longer one and joined them ya can get at an industrial hardware store or hose shop , I added a better metal filter and an old bucket I drilled holes in so it doesn’t clog up as quickly works great that lil filter will clog quickly mine did anyways you will like it crazy how much water those trash pumps move . I use to have one of those lil electric jobs what a joke compared to these happy grass growing !

Thanks for the great video. I’m going to die the basic design you have here, but I’m also going to put a foot valve on the pvc pipe in the pond right at the screener.

Had an uncle that approx 10mtr (33') of poly that had a float on the inlet end with a small weight anchor to stop from moving. Use to move it from damn to damn like you mentioned. He said it was to reduce sediment pickup if the damn was ever low.

You might want to note that the firehose must have no kinks, otherwise it will burst. Glad to see Mrs. Stoney Ridge's arm is healing well.

Putting aeriated water back into the pond is a good thing ... Fish love it ... Also if you put the sprinkler pattern to the edge of the pond you will have blank spots on the pond dam because the pattern is round ... Check with local fire department ... Might have a section of old suction hose ... You can also sometimes get old fire hose when they get new ... Also maybe tie suction end to a float or put on a box to keep off the pond bottom ... Silt sucks ... Put a small tool box with primer, glue and tape in every vehicle ... Lol

Looks like you put in a 12” culvert for overflow. You could always increase it to 24” and that would handle gully washers. As others have suggested, use a flexible intake with a float so you don’t have to worry about picking up trash on the bottom. Also, maybe install a checkvalve on the pump outlet so the line doesn’t drain back if the pump shuts off.

Basket on a float with a connection for flexablable hose. It could teathered to land and be anchored at the deepest point of pond.Hose can be spooled and anchored at edge of pond mabye in dedicated pump house/hunting blind. "WHOOO" Rick Flair.

i love this guys enthusiasm

Do not forget to drain the entire system in winter, including the pump body chamber, to prevent damage from freezing.

Great idea for irrigation!

To get even coverage with your sprinkler pods, they should be 23 ft apart so that each pod’s spray hits its neighboring pod. If you were to measure the amount of water hitting the ground, you would find that the sprinklers drop more water closer to the spray head that then diminishes as you approach the 23 foot radius of the spray. By having them with a 100% overlap, you will get a more thorough soaking with only having to add an additional irrigation pod or two. The k-line pod system is great. Keep up with the great videos.

Nice kind of irrigation. Cool.

Excellent Instructor 😀

Might need a check valve just before the pump to prevent loosing prime each time the pump is shut down.

Love the Stoney Ridge Farm...