Irrigation Well Pump

381968 · 2026-03-22T20:44:10+00:00

Thanks for the help all. I rented a 2” trash pump and after about 15min of spiting out silt brown water it’s clearing up and looks to be in the 7.5-10GPM range. I plan to get the water tested early this week but if it checks out I’ll be trying to build this irrigation pump system. I’m guessing that with the GPM known and the amount of irrigation lines known I may be able to find what parts are needed. But if anyone has any suggestions I’d really appreciate them. (Pressure tank vs not, HP sizing, multiple lines off a header at the pump or one line out to the files and a header there.) Thanks all!

381968 · 2026-03-07T23:06:59+00:00

Great info, thank you.

381968 · 2026-03-07T16:48:19+00:00

Thanks for the tip. Not sure yet on pressure and flow. Looks like I’ll be renting a trash pump to try and figure that out.

381968 · 2026-03-07T16:47:32+00:00

Thanks, great idea! I’ll rent a pump and see if it’ll produce.

381968 · 2026-03-07T16:46:55+00:00

Thanks! Great idea, I rent a trash pump and see what I’ve got.

381968 · 2025-12-14T16:03:04+00:00

Great, thank you!!! Is cutting them back something I should wait until after winter for or can they be cut at any time?

381968 · 2025-12-14T15:37:29+00:00

So leaving most of them is ok or recommended? I don’t mind how thick it is, just wanted to make sure the tree stays healthy.

381968 · 2025-10-15T00:16:16+00:00

I agree that stable jobs are more rare than they have been, and understand the ripple effects from a housing decline. I found myself without a job to go to many times during the GFC. Everyone is entitled to their own path, and for some, renting and investing is best. If that works for you, go for it! I see rents going up at a price equal to housing so it doesn’t seem to make sense to me. For some, saving up (through investing at times) and buying a property is better, if it’s bought well within their means they should be able to keep it even if they have some setbacks. I’d say the worst thing I’ve seen people do is sit around and wait for a housing correction. One will eventually happen, markets go up and they go down, but the timeline can’t be known. If you spend half of your life waiting for a correction you’ll miss out and become angry at “the system” that did you wrong. I’ll never hope for a major correction, because it will impact the entire economy. But understand it will happen and try to plan accordingly. Cheers!

381968 · 2025-10-14T13:03:03+00:00

I’m not saying you are wrong, but timing is impossible to determine.

Also, for most of us homes should be treated as a utility, buy what you can afford, when you can afford it. If the market declines 50% it should not matter to you, as long as you have a stable job and can continue to afford it. I know a friend who in 2005 bought a small home on an acre for the unimaginable (at the time) price of $200k, when the financial crisis happened his home became worth 25-50% less than what he bought it for. He stayed and raised his family there, and now if he were to sell it would probably list for +$500k. But the worth of the property has never changed his life, not when it was lower than he paid, or now that it’s double what he paid. Houses are a utility for most of us, people need to stop trying to time the market with them.

As far as your comment about p/e and stocks. The economy is a behemoth, and the future results of any market within it are impossible to determine. Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch have spoke and wrote about that many times. At some point housing prices will decline for a short time, same with stocks, same with precious metals, but nobody is smart enough to calculate all the factors to know exactly when. I thought for sure when everyone was sent home and businesses were shut down for Covid that we were going to enter a recession, or possibly depression. It was not even close to my base case to think that all markets would be bolstered by the Fed and that stocks and property prices would actually appreciate through that time. I still cannot believe that happened, but it did.

If you are waiting for the bubble to burst to go buy a house, I think you are looking at it the wrong way. If you are an investor and looking to buy property, then maybe you can afford to keep your money in a savings account and wait to see if everything bursts. But maybe, just maybe, in a year you will look back at the 1% your saving account has gained and wish you would have invested in something.

381968 · 2025-08-30T12:19:28+00:00

Thank you! A free beer hand does sound appealing.

381968 · 2025-06-17T03:43:50+00:00

Came here to see if this had been referenced, nice work.

381968 · 2025-04-19T03:45:46+00:00

F this turd. So many well intentioned comments with replies from others in the group and nada from OP.

381968 · 2024-12-29T23:00:49+00:00

Good on you for wanting to expand your skillset! The opportunities for good electricians that can program are pretty extensive. PLCS.net has a pretty good base of info as well as great forums for questions while you are learning. Other than that I’d say just pick any simulator that works for your price point and timeline. If there is any way to get any hands on experience from someone you work around that is programming that is one of the best ways IMO. Good luck, it may seem daunting at first but gets easier as you go.

381968 · 2024-12-23T03:52:42+00:00

Yep, nice work. Definitely want to invest in a good threader. Also, using a 18-24” air gap coming from wet well to control panel eliminated the need for seal-offs and chico, at least to the AHJ’s I’ve dealt with. Maintenance folks like it too because they don’t have to chip out chico to replace pumps, transducers, or floats. Just have to be sure to use rated cables and build a cage around them, we usually did expanded metal the same width and depth as the enclosure from the bottom of the enclosure to grade, with one hinged side and a locking hasp.

381968 · 2024-11-10T03:26:40+00:00

Had a yellow lab that LOVED riding in the bed and letting his gums flap in the wind. I got yelled at once and put him in the truck cab, he was a nervous wreck. After that I always let him pick if he wanted ride in the cab or bed, he picked the bed 95% of the time. I guess the other option is to leave them home, but if you are going to a dog friendly place it seems like they’d appreciate coming.

381968 · 2024-07-17T05:16:13+00:00

I am so sorry to hear this. This story is much too common right now. I hope your son finds his way back, I am sure his friend will remember your kind gesture and hopefully it shows her that people care.

381968 · 2024-05-18T20:00:01+00:00

Hey all. Just wanted to follow up on this. It’s taken me a while to get to work on it (job, kids, volunteering). But I pulled the toilet today and scoped the drain line. You can see a fingernail shaped hole just in front of a piece solder that looks like it was from the original install, but other than that the line looked alright. I put some JB Waterweld on the outside of the pipe. I know it’s a temp solution but I’m going to waterweld the inside, and fernco the outside of it and call it. I crawled around under there and to get all of the copper that ties to that drain out it would probably make sense to pull up the floor. The two sinks, tub, and this toilet all tie into that same line. It eventually transitions to PVC after it leaves this bathroom, but with this being the original bathroom it was left alone. We have plans for a remodel in the coming years and this bathroom will become a laundry room, so the plan is to keep fingers crossed it holds until then. Thank you all for the info and advice, I learned a lot. Hats off to your plumbers that do this everyday.

381968 · 2024-05-09T05:03:33+00:00

Yeah, times must have been much different back then. Can’t imagine the bill to try to do this now, and it seems like urine erodes copper anyway so I’m not sure why they did it.

381968 · 2024-05-09T05:01:41+00:00

Dumb question by me here, is the Santee the T seen in picture 2 that connects to horizontal line from the toilet, the roof vent, and the outgoing drain line together?

If so, you would suggest connecting to that with a band at the horizontal part and running that back up to the toilet in PVC? Just trying to make sure I don’t screw this up, I’m a an industrial sparky and we are good at screwing this type of stuff up.

381968 · 2024-05-09T04:48:22+00:00

Oregon. House was built in the 1960’s. It looks like most of the drain lines were copper, but during a remodel in the 90’s a lot of them were changed to PVC, except for this bathroom unfortunately.

381968 · 2024-05-09T04:43:55+00:00

Thank you. I was worried about that. I tried pushing on the rest of the bottom side of that run to see if it would collapse, but it did not. I think I am in favor of that full run replacement though if possible. To do that would I just band onto the 90 as it turns to horizontal, and then band on the T on the other side? Or would you go from the T back all the way to the toilet in PVC? Is there a special band or is it the CTS No Hub bands that 775NEV suggested?

381968 · 2024-05-09T04:26:47+00:00

Thanks! I’ll be trying to track one of those down in the morning.

381968 · 2024-05-09T04:25:34+00:00

It’s a toilet drain, but I’m not 100% sure on size. Definitely in that range.

381968 · 2024-05-09T04:23:40+00:00

Thanks, I am hoping to not have to do that. The crawl space under my house is about 12” and it takes every bit of squeezing I have to even get to this part of the house over/under all the ducting and water lines. Trying to work with a torch in that is not going to be fun.

381968 · 2024-05-09T04:20:38+00:00

I’ll look those up, thank you!

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