Our Farm Water System

            On our farm we are totally reliant on rainwater and we have 3 5,000 gallon collection tanks and a 2,000 gallon header tank. We have 1 big tank on the house, 1 on the shearing shed and at present 1 at my shed.The plan for the shed tank is to move it below the shed and put a second 5,000 gallon tank in as the collection area on the shed is around 240 square meters and quite often in a huge downpour the shed tank will overflow.

           In the 5 years we've been on the farm we've only needed to buy water in once last summer as the area was in drought conditions.

        One of my future projects is to make some wireless tank sensors so we can know how much water is in each tank particularly the header tank so when someone is taking a shower we suddenly findout the header tank is empty.

Pictures of Our Rainwater System

The House Tank which we use as the main water source for the pump to pump water to the header tank

The Shearing Shed Tank

 

The Shed Tank

 

 

The Header Tank, the small pipe is for filling the 2 1,000 litre plastic tanks for the front garden water

 

 

The Water Pumps, the First one is the original Honda water pump that had the sparkplug cross threaded so that will need a helicoil jobbie to fix. The second water pump is my backup B&S fire fighting pump and the outlet pipe that ballooned shows the power this old pump has

 

 

This picture is the excavation i'm doing for the shed tanks, the cutting of the hill is the easy part building the 2 metre rock wall will be the back breaking part