Pumpkin Harvest & Leaking Rain Water Tank
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Hey Folks. Started the week off on a downer with a leaking rainwater tank & finished it off with a very decent pumpkin harvest. I see many pumpkin & prawn red curry soups in our future. 🍲🦐
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Bummer with the water. Got pumpkins for months. Dont knock wallaby poo till you tried it.
🤣 We've got so much wallaby 💩 around the house I've been thinking about collecting it to compost.
Cheers Davey.
@@RobsAquaponics not a bad idea it there it’s free 👍
Now that those tanks are empty is there a better place to move them or new tanks to?
There's a few mobs offering end of financial year discounts at the moment Gayle. Thinking we might get 2 around the same size & set them up below the house towards the dams if we can work it into the budget. It will mean putting off the tractor for a bit longer though but such is.
Happy to assist with suitable swear words across the miles. Nothing quite like mindful swearing from an experienced practitioner to help overcome the most bothersome challenges. 😉 cheers Del 🍄🟫🍍🥦
🤣 You two should probably share notes.
B was aptly schooled in art by her rigger farther.
Have seen her literally crumble mountainous blokes acting the fool into piles of pebbles.
Hope all's well in your world Del. ☕ 🎂
So sorry to see you with a burst tank, same thing happened to me on one of my 20,000l tanks and it's heartbreaking. Especially here in WA where it barely rains.
Quick question that may have been answered in another video. Why are you doing a direct "aqueduct" style elevated connection from the roof to the tank? Why not bring it down, do a buried run to the tank then up and into the tank? World be way easier to maintain. Less chance of collapse too.
Hope you got some of the recent rain over there mate.
That's how the old owners had it set up. We're not happy with it but it will do for now until we set up some new tanks in a different position closer to the house.
The tanks are higher than the house so we would need to dig a rather deep trench + there are tree roots in the way. They told us on handover that the tree has already broken the line to the house twice while they had been here so that's another reason why we haven't considered it.
Hope the system is doing well Sebastian & thanks for the support mate.
As long as your gutters are higher than your tank inlet, you should be able to run your fill pipes underground. Far be it for me to tell an Australian how to collect rainwater, but as a Texan who uses rainwater as our only source for the last 20 years, I would also suggest 100 mm collection pipe as a minimum. Best of luck! I love your videos!
Facebook has got/had a load of tank sellers (Bundy way etc) with 2x5000G tanks for just under $6K free delivery as its tax time - June EOF year sales.
Cheers mate, that's who we're probably going with. We just need to work out where we want them now & how to prep their pads on a budget.
Have a top on RW.
Aluminium on stainless steel can corrode, for installing things with dissimilar metals a "duralac"(bcf job) coating is an industry standard for things expected to last 20years+
I know it's a particularly bad mix in the marine usages. 👍 These only have to last until we get some tanks set up closer to the house. The "aqueduct" will come down after that & the parts re purposed into something else most likely.
Cheers & have a top one.
Sorry to hear about the tank. That is not only colstly to replace but also to fill. But gives the need to redo some stuff. You have a fer ponds is there any way the water from that can be filtered and put jn the tank as a topup option in case of no rain ?
The smaller 5000L tanks have a line running to them from the dams down the front, we just need a pump to fill them. 👍 That water could also be filtered if we had the right set up. There is also a bore/well on the property but we need to get a pump & also the water tested as the old owners never set it up properly.
Cheers & have a top one.
Try to borrow a tank to pump remaining water into for the fix then pump it back? Empty tanks are better for working on.
The tanks were almost dry when we found them. Have water in the good tank now that we bought in from a local carrier. 👍
all the best we hope everything ends up ok.
BTW our dog who has passed love cat ..p......
Thanks Folks. We'll get it all sorted in the end.
Sorry to hear about your pup.
Stainless steel and aluminium should never be in mixed contact. They will chemically encourage electrolysis and corrode quite rapidly ask any sailor
I also grow pumpkins. I'm curious if you had advice on the ideal watering interval for them? Thanks. PS; Pumpkin french fries are great. Also for spoiled pumpkins you can cut them open and cut off the bad parts and then feed the good parts to the chickens; its suppose to also help them get rid of parasites also.
Hey Noah. When we grow them in beds it's generally wicking beds so they have access to all the water they want. For conventional soil growing I used to water ours every afternoon in summer as the house we were living in at the time had sandy soil & didn't hold moisture too well.
These ones have only had rain as their water source so far.
Cheers & happy growing. 🎃🎃
@@RobsAquaponics Thanks for the reply!
Rob, I just put in a new 110,000 L tank. Steel tank and liner was $12,800 with a gutter kit so it catches its own water as well as the house roof. Don't waste too much money on old, dirty and unknown age water tanks and pipes , clean water is too important and you want peace of mind.
Matilda Tanks though think NSW/VIC have had some sales was thinking about one too but I also have 6 5000G tanks and they are always isolated and only opened up to distribute the load (just in case a tank or line leaks - had 2 go that way one from a horse and another just rusty old tank finally gave way).
There's a few local retailers offering end of financial year discounts at the moment. Saw one for 2 x 24K tanks with a pump delivered for just under $6K. We don't need the pump but it would come in handy elsewhere I think.
That's about all we can afford right now & will also be coming out of our tractor fund but would eventually like about 100K all up eventually.
Cheers CB.
@@rw-xf4cb We'll be isolating all the tanks (when we get some more) as well. 👍 H from the Naughty Goat Farm has all his set up that way & it looks like a much better way to go. Hope to be picking his brains on our set up soon.
Why dont you run the pipe underground
He's said in a few past videos they will eventually, but if they do it now it may get damaged with future planned work or possibly require digging up and relocating, so it's easier to just keep it where it is until the future plans are finalised.
@@Berkeloid0 Arh yes. getting old times brain Farts
We'd also like to have the tanks closer to the house as well so we could have the lines from the gutters feed right into them.
Just pricing some tanks today.
@@RobsAquaponics Excellent, aquaponics right at the back door. love it... lol
Impressive pumpkin patch guys and I’m not sure of the slope of the land but I hope that water leaking inadvertently waters the pumpkins. Also, good luck with getting a cost effective reliable water solution.
Pumpkins are a bit far away but the weeds got a great feed from it Chris. 🤣
Valve swapped & water brought in yesterday so we're all good for the short term.
Looking at getting some tanks from a local mob running a show/EOFY sale. Looing at a couple of 24K tanks with a bonus pump for just under $6K.
Need to work out if we can set up decent base pads on the cheap before we buy.
Hope you're having a top week.
Know that frustration of water loss.
My first crack at rain collection was a 900-gallon system of 16 55-gallon barrels. My first winter, one of the cross-over lines ruptured. I hadn't put shutoff valves between each tank. Sooo... roughly 300 gallons leaked out and started to freeze in my backyard.
All this took place at night and 20 degrees f.
Ouch Eric. I could imagine it being rather slippery out there the next day.
We plan to have all the tanks on separate lines once we get the new ones set up. The remaining good tank will just collect water from the shed & we'll have two new ones closer to the house I think.
Cheers mate & have a great one.
8lt bucket with hot water and a jug works for a shower, did it for years lol Every place i have bought (mostly property) always had plumbing problems.Tank leaks,septic leaks, septic blockages etc the delights of living on land.
We tad a small tub we bought as a pool for Jack that we used as a bath. Only used it twice as we got the valve swapped over & water in the tank yesterday. 👍 Probably should rig up a camping style shower anyway as a just in case measure.
Cheers Kerry.
Use a couple of camping solar showers until you get everything back to Normal...
We had water brought in yesterday but were making do with fast baths in Jacks "pool" tub Les. 😅 I am thinking we should rig up a camping style shower anyway in case we need it again. Visitors can use it when they go camping down the back as well.
Hope you're having a great week Les.
Hoping there is a budget friendly, quick, and easy fix for the leaky tanks. As dogs do lick themselves in places we wouldn't, even if we could, perhaps wallaby poo helps get rid of the taste of his privates? 😂😂😂 Have a good one you two!
🤣🤣 That may be the case CR. 🤣🤣
I have swapped over the dud valve & we got water delivered yesterday so we're OK for now.
We're looking at buying a few new tanks & getting them set up closer to the house. Just need to see what we can afford budget wise first.
Hope you're having a top week.
That is definitely a hight level of swear words project 😅. Hope you can figure out a patch in the meantime!
New valve is on & we have water now Jennifer. I think you may have already seen the post on the supporters page by now. 😉
I think there will be loads more swear words when it comes to removing the old tank & setting up the new ones. 😅
Hope you're having a fantastic week.
In the states we have what we call Squash Bugs. They look like Lady Bugs, but are generally larger, and orange instead of red. They eat leaves on squash plants leaving a sort of wispy lace behind from leaving some of the thicker parts I suppose. They lay eggs in bunches of about ten on the underside the leaves that are red. If you don't catch them the grubs will go to town on the leaves. The colors I describe may be slightly different as I have trouble with red and green, not to mention regional variation.
Our biggest fruit pest here is the Queensland Fruit Fly. They will blow (lay eggs) in blueberries up to pumpkins in size. Haven't seen any of the squash style bugs friends in the States have to deal with thankfully.
Cheers mate & have a top one.
sorry to hear about the leaking tank and that fix you did with those wires on the piping look like your a skilled bridge builder :) fantastic job
Thanks AA. Hopefully we will be able to remove the pipework soon as we're planning to put another tank closer to the house soon.
Cheers & have a top one.
Have you considered replacing your water tanks with an underground cistern? Then it would be out of the sun at least
I would love an underground concrete one Kimberley but cost is a bit prohibitive at the moment.
Sorry to hear about the leaking tank. Seems like a nasty crack at a nasty place. But not strange after 30 years of flexing and being exposed to the elements. Hopefully it can be fixed, and for a reasonable price. 👍
Thanks mate. I think we'll be getting a few new ones as we're not sure how long the remaining one will last now. There's a few end of financial year sales going on at the moment so we may be able to get a few new ones fairly cheap.
Cheers & have a top one.
I thought you would throw the seed from the best pumpkin?
All the fruit on a given plant come from the same genes, so it doesn't matter the quality of the individual pieces of fruit (assuming decent pollination) as both the good and bad fruit share the same genes. The *next* generation that grows from the seeds will vary based on how the seeds were pollinated, but you don't know if they are any good until you've grown the plant and seen what kind of fruit it produces. So it's fine to plant seeds from fruit that isn't great, as long as that same plant also produced a lot of good fruit too. But if the plant produced mostly undesirable fruit, it's better to just get rid of the whole plant and forget any seeds it produced (from good or bad fruit) as you don't want those detrimental genes passed along.
We have always had the best results from plants that are volunteers Lee. I've saved loads of pumpkin seeds but it's always the freaks that pop up from castings or compost that take over the patch.
Have you got much on the grow this winter?
Rob. the pumpkins look great 😀. A shame about losing all that water. Hopefully, the tank will fill up quickly. Take care.
Bought in some water & is half filled now Garry.
I think B is going to try & sell a few of the pumpkins through her work as there's more than we can eat & give away to family. 😅
Have a top one mate.
@@RobsAquaponics 👍 Pumpkins are a good seller here as well, hopefully, you will sell the excess pumpkins. good luck.
I hope the broken tank turns into a fish tank... 😂😅🤔
Imagine the size of the grow bed you could make with one of those cut in half 🤣
@@Berkeloid0 It would be large enough and great for a bio filter for grey water though. I would cut it and partially dig it into the ground and line it with an EPDM pond liner, and in that case not even try to fix the leak. With a liner it could even still serve perfectly fine as a fish tank if it is partially buried in order to prevent the tank from splitting apart. All that matters is that it keeps the shape.
The split is on the base unfortunately I have thought about turning it into a shed of sorts though.... 🤔🤔
@@Berkeloid0 🤣🤣 Could run quite a few bed's I'd think.
@@insAneTunA B Liked the idea of using it as the structure for a grey water system. We think we'll be replacing the existing one down the line.
When are we going to see actual work being done??? Bit tired of update videos and no progress. No aquaponics being setup, no mention of it starting, nothing about the dams? I thought this farm was going to be expanding your content. You should have kept your channels separate.
That's the problem with buying a place like this. You have all these plans but you keep getting side tracked by fixing up all the problems left behind by the previous owners before you can even start your own stuff. The channel is nothing if not realistic for anyone else wanting to follow a similar path.
🤔 🤣 There would still be no Aqua content on this cannel if they were separate. $$ & time are being eaten up by fixing the house & equipment & dealing with council orders.
No way we can afford to fix the dams now so that's why there's been no video showing the work.
BTW, This started off as a wicking bed, compost & compost worm backyard farming channel. Imagine how they felt when I went almost 100% aqua.
Cheers & have a top one.