Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

Looks like only around a quarter million pictures and videos, but that was just a rough check at a couple directories. Here's one of dad 100 yrs ago. My brother scanned some of these pictures years ago, and we haven't found the originals since.

 

[Looking4new]

Drew, how old is your pressure tank?

I've got 2. A 100 and a 150. Back when I had the Cobra DX 200 it was 30 watts on AM and 100 watts on SSB, right out of the box. I wanted the guy that tuned it up for me to bridge the two sets of finals. He wouldn't do it.
I could talk from Manitoulin Island,ON to Lake Station, IN and sounded like I was right outside his shack. He was giving radio checks to local truckers and guys just passing through, so I hollered for a radio check on AM. I didn't need a 'boot' then and left it at home.
I ran a single 'oil coil' antenna and at the end of the season the oil in it had a brown tint, it started life clear. That antenna could handle 1,000 watts so they said on the packaging and 1 full wave length.

 

[ArlyA]

Good morning TBN crew. Rained on/off all day yesterday and overnight. Still is lightly falling at 40 degree's this am and today's high is 42. I built a mini-pintle hitch for a our atv trailer yesterday. I am packing and organizing to get to camp when dearest gets off on Friday. The below photo is a mini-pintle hitch setup.View attachment 4300599

We seen 1.5 inches of rain in about 36 hours.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

40 Yrs ago... From one of my oldest VHS videos.

 

[LouNY]

RS,, if you go with two 300 gallon tanks, don't forget to plumb them both together at the bottom with at least 1.5" pipe and vent them both at the top. I wouldn't keep them outside unless they were in a well insulated building and the tanks themselves were well insulated. Every time I have been to Ohio in the winter time I froze my tail off.

Or a buried 1000 gallon if the room is available. It could even be by the well with a small pit for the booster pump or suspend a small submersible.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Tractor Afternoon,

Scott I run the KPA500 Daily Great AMP. The KPA500 does all I need. Nice not have to tune all the time.

Steve that Kenwood doesn’t need an Amp
Good to know, hopefully by early next year I don’t have 220 on my second floor, they say you can get 600 watts out , that should be plenty with my location

 

[rswyan]

Any chance that you could put your tank outside?

Chances are slim to none ... at least without burying it at some depth. Something I wouldn't be inclined to do for a whole variety of reasons.

Frost line here is around 36" or more.

Part of the reason why I was looking to sink the fence posts as deep as I could.

Your well will be adding 54F water, and you keep drawing water from it, so with a little insulation it might be ok.

Very doubtful.

Average low temps towards the end of January are in the high teens for about a week or so.

And average lows are below freezing starting sometime in November and typically stay there until late March.

While it isn't necessarily a frequent occurrence, we can have low temps below zero for several days at a time.

I don't know how close you are to Lake Erie and the storms.

We're at the very southern end of the Lake Erie snowbelt, typically get 40" to 50" of snow per year on average.

Alberta Clippers are a regular feature here in winter ...

FWIW: This is the style float switch I have been using. Going on 11 years or so.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0064BHEVM

Interesting. Will need to look into that style further.

This one below is similar to the one that I was considering:

Liquid Level Switch w/ Rod & Float, Open On Rise, NEMA 1, Right Float Position (575V)

The last one I bought was made in Argentina of all places.

Former neighbor "Juan" was Argentinian ... hard worker, very handy guy, worked in a machine shop ...

 

[rswyan]

RS,, if you go with two 300 gallon tanks, don't forget to plumb them both together at the bottom with at least 1.5" pipe

Plumbing together at the bottom was the plan, although I was initially considering using 1" PVC .

Though looking at the suction/inlet side of the booster pump I see it is 1 1/4" ... so 1 1/4" (or better) would probably be the way to go ...

Don't want the pump starving for supply.

and vent them both at the top.

The the lids on the 16" manways are vented ...

I wouldn't keep them outside unless they were in a well insulated building and the tanks themselves were well insulated. Every time I have been to Ohio in the winter time I froze my tail off.

Yeah ... it can get kinda chilly here ...

I still remember running a load one night heading out of NW Ohio into IN. Outside temperature hit -24F ... heater in the van couldn't keep up. Was painful.

 

[sodamo]

69°F and .56 inches rain.

Another 4+ hours of mowing progress yesterday. A good long day today and I could finish this round. This will not only depend on the wx but 3 sloped areas that I will need trial and error to address as they are usually avoided but part of my rationale for this mower. Plus 2 other special attention perimeter areas, 1 a continuation of tree/old fence line and 2 edge of property that is a high stream bank. Actually got a wheel over the edge years ago and had to get Sophie pull be back with the truck. Hmmm, might not really finish today . Better to be slower and safe.

Otherwise no plans. H&F cancelled as John came back from family reunion with a cold.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great tractor day

 

[rswyan]

Good Tractor Morning RS,

Good Morning to you !

Interesting read on your well issues. I went through all of this back in early to mid 90’s. I originally had our well pounded back in 1982 when we built our house. Around 94 or so my wife Kathleen is complaining that by mid morning we are running out of water. With 2 pre teens and showers and wash I had to do something. The original well was pounded through bedrock to a depth of 125 ft. I called in Connecticut Well and they brought in a rotary drill. We went down to 450 ft and still not getting much in the way of results.We were only getting about 1 1/2 gals per minute. They brought in their fracking equipment and we managed to increase that to 3 GPM. But our static level was at about 40 ft. We hung the new pump at 400 ft so 50 ft from the bottom. That gave us over 350 ft of reserve water so 350 x 1.5 gals per ft or over 525 gals of water before we run dry. We have never run dry since redrilling the well.

Interesting story.

Found out the other day that our new neighbor's well was done by our driller ... who subbed the job out to another local driller (who we have also used in the past) who has a rotary drill rig.

Our driller only has a percussion rig, said the guy with the rotary did in one day what it would have taken him 3 days to do.

9" borehole with 72' of 5" casing, total depth 160', static level @ 70', produces 12 gpm.

Depths are fairly typical for this area.

As I understand it from our driller, he doesn't like to go much deeper as you run the risk of running into bad water. That's from memory from a conversation we had quite a few years ago.

Yes you are correct on rock in New England, everything is rock out here .
The just of my story is that the fracking did clean the veins in the well to a point where a noticeable increase in in flow occurred.

Good to know of your successful results with fracking ...

So best of luck my friend

Thanks.