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[Deleted member 60]

Mine's a 30/50 but it can be adjusted..like all of em...to offer more or less pressure. Those numbers are just the factory settings from my understanding/from what my well guy told me. He adjusted ours up a bit ago and it made a nice difference in flow. My well has never had an expansion tank until now....and was never properly set up for over 40 years. No "tee" off the tank before....and it was basically just sitting off to the side...providing pressure...but it wasn't conventionally located in between the supply and the system itself like most systems. It worked for all those years....but the welll guy just shook his head when he saw it nad said "I see alot of things like this"....LOL. Ah.....Podunk.

300 ft/6 gpm is a good well. If you have a domestic right/permit...you are likely right about irrigation. There are some DEEP wells in this state though....for sure. A guy on the hill above me had to go 800 ft and only got 1 gal per minute.... he's trying to offload his lot as we speak. I can put a hurt on mine if I am heavy handed on the irrigation/etc. but avoid that kinda stuff whenever possible.

 

[Punisher84]

Damn. Deep wells. My last house was around 30 feet deep. Could pull it by hand lol.

It was a 4” well. Had it redone just before we sold it with a 6” well, and they put in a constant pressure pump. I think it was variable speed, it would constantly have 60psi. Way better than the 20/40 I had before. Wished I had done it 4 years prior after it was done.

This is the pressure reducing valve I’ve got. Works well.

 

[Punisher84]

Wife’s family owns a 11acre lake and the property around it. The houses all had lake wells, a pit by the lake full of gravel they drew water out of. Bunch of filters and shit inside to maintain.
They have municipal water now. Anytime you touch a water line in those houses you get a few hundred gallons of muddy water from all the sediment laying in the pipes from the lake.

We are so unfortunate to own property on the lake, always a load of family drama when something needs to be done to the lake. Easier to just pay for it all myself and not listen to the morons argue.

 

[Deleted member 60]

Mine are both 6" casings. The house well has been here 40 years. Pretty sure we're seeing the casing start to disintegrate cus I've been seeing iron "flakes" in my system. Such is why I had the plumber put a "spin down" sediment filter with a 100 micron screen on it just after the pressure tank/pre-system. Like us...everything wears out over time....

My pipes had a buncha gunk in em. plumber said the angle was too steep and as a result...the water didn't "swirl" down the pipe like it does with proper sloping. Make sense.......especially after living by this creek. In runoff...the top of the stream flows far faster than the bottom of the stream...and all sorts of bedload is deposited because of it. Same with pipes, it seems.

PRV on my old house w/city water looked like this. Not near as fancy as yours.....

 

[Punisher84]

Mine are both 6" casings. The house well has been here 40 years. Pretty sure we're seeing the casing start to disintegrate cus I've been seeing iron "flakes" in my system. Such is why I had the plumber put a "spin down" sediment filter with a 100 micron screen on it just after the pressure tank/pre-system. Like us...everything wears out over time....

My pipes had a buncha gunk in em. plumber said the angle was too steep and as a result...the water didn't "swirl" down the pipe like it does with proper sloping. Make sense.......especially after living by this creek. In runoff...the top of the stream flows far faster than the bottom of the stream...and all sorts of bedload is deposited because of it. Same with pipes, it seems.

PRV on my old house w/city water looked like this. Not near as fancy as yours.....

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My dad had trouble with that style of prv, he has a lot of pressure as well and it kept blowing past those style valves. Went thru 4-5 in a 10 year span.

 

[sandman83]

3 outta 6 dinoberry bites popped tails in under 24 hours, popping them into rapid rooters shortly and will give the other 3 another day or so to see if they want to pop out.

@thenotsoesoteric

 

[gwheels]

Wear gloves when you trim people...because hours later when you rub your eye holy fuck that hurts...and burns like crazy for a real long time....finger hash is powerful stuff.

Today I went to the Indoor Farmer in Waterloo Ontario. The best hydro shop i have ever been to and i am a regular customer. But i hate going because you go for 2 fans and 250 bucks later....

What i did realize is the future....I am going to design a system that is PVC piped in that uses something like floraflex. I can make one that can water bigger pots (5 to 7 gallon fabric pots)...Why.....well thats how i roll.

I will check it out and think about it. I like to make drawrings anyway.

What i did get was canna coco bricks so i can see the difference. I will take pics. The price breakdown is like this
coco in a sack all perfect and beauty and fluffy.........25 bucks CDN for 40 litres
coco in a botanicare brick....5 kg bricks (12 pounds) 20 dollars CDN for 65 to 70 litres (hard to cut)
coco in canna coco bricks....2 bricks in the bag...the bag is plastic so you can put water in the bag to hydrate it. Very easy to use and great coco. You can hydrate half easily. 20 bucks for 40 litres.

I am cheap....botanicare for the win. But I will give it a go.

I also got more 12 inch airstones...i have another 2 port air pump on the way. I will replace my 5 gallon bubble buckets with 10 and 15s. The next one will take 4 inch or 6 inch baskets for rockwool cubes.

Oh yeah and 2 fans to replace the burnt out fuckers.

Then i got home and the edibles hit...i vaped 2 fat bowls of all the grinder stuff and life is good again.

It is amazing to me....CRAMPS........smoke a blunt of something just right....ahhhh..

I really think i might not have to go back a while but....I only have 50 gallons of coco...so we shall see.

Oh i also went for rapid rooters...and then i got a sleeve of fat rockwool cubes, and a bag of starters.

50 plugs used to last longer...i think the bag is smaller.

 

[Saboo the Shaman]

^^^If I had a dollar for every time I've touched my eyes while trimming I could buy some nice new fishing gear. You are right, it hurts like hell and eye drops don't help. I'm usually good at learning from mistakes, but this lesson is taking a while to sink in.

I've only ever bought compressed coco and never had a problem. Much easier to buy a few bricks and store them until you need them. I rehydrate with nutrient solution, dump powdered mosquito dunks and perlite into the bin and work it all by hand while watching a video.

 

[Deleted member 60]

@Jesselikes2Grow .....my tile guy said "whoever built this for you not only built it well...they set everything up right with nailers and made it so that it all lines up very nicely"....

pics after it gets cleaned up and I (hopefully) can get in there and play Plumber/mount the trim kit/etc.

Crazy nice.......

 

[gwheels]

^^^If I had a dollar for every time I've touched my eyes while trimming I could buy some nice new fishing gear. You are right, it hurts like hell and eye drops don't help. I'm usually good at learning from mistakes, but this lesson is taking a while to sink in.

I've only ever bought compressed coco and never had a problem. Much easier to buy a few bricks and store them until you need them. I rehydrate with nutrient solution, dump powdered mosquito dunks and perlite into the bin and work it all by hand while watching a video.

Mosquito dunks right at the beginning....genius. gnats be gone 100% of the time every time

 

[gwheels]

Lol they don’t have any elephants in Canada. Unless you hunt at the zoo!
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A friend of mine uses a 375 H&H for moose. Now that rifle kicks...but it does weigh more to help offset the inertia. He was smart enough to have a comp installed at the end (old dudes with big guns need to soften the blow).
Thats what she said !
My first 22 i got in my 20s...a ruger 10-22 and man those are great guns. Fill up 5 clips and go partridge hunting. Shoot the crap out of targets...its just too bad you cant reload em.

The 416 rigby..which is a proper elephant gun is a monster. I thought you knecked up 375 brass but its unique and from the cordite powder days of African Safari!

I just want to fire one...a side by side BOOM BOOM...i bet it would blow a tree down with a bear claw slug !

I used to make 35 Whelan out of 30-06 Military brass because it was so cheap to get them. And i had a 5 pound can of the right powder from a different rifle

 

[Deleted member 60]

Outta my league there @gwheels . I inherited a 1906 Izzara 32mm semi-auto pistol from my gramps that he found hidden in in a barn in France in WW2 (along with another pistol my sister-in-law has).....but other than that...we don't have any guns around here. I gave all my guns away in the early 90's when I started growing commercially/for profit in my basement......and have never asked for em back/looked back/missed 'em. My shotgun I got from my gramps (A Remington Model 12 that would have easily been 100 years old now) was stolen with all of my dad's guns in a burglary of our house in 1971 while we were on vacation. That's the only one I miss/wish i had back. Got insurance $$$$ for it and pissed the entire family off when I bought a stereo instead of another gun. LOL.

 

[Saboo the Shaman]

Mosquito dunks right at the beginning....genius. gnats be gone 100% of the time every time

For the first few years, fungus gnats were always around. I tried so many things that didn't work. Since I started doing this a year or so ago, they have been gone. I keep a little shaker jar with powdered dunks to apply a little top-dress if any show up, but it is almost never needed if I pre-treat all the coco.

 

[gwheels]

just look at the 308....aka 7.62 NATO vs the Rigby I believe after 30-06 it was the american standard caliber until 5.56 (223) took over.

It is like a mini cannon shell.

I would love to see a genius make a handgun for it...and then watch the you tube video of giving it a shot.

416 rigby sends a 400 grain bullet at 2400 FPS....that is ridiculous. almost 5200 foot pounds of smack in .416 diameter. Like being hit by a very tiny buick. BOOM

A 308 can fire a 180 grain at 2500 to 2600.

375 H&H which was the standard minimum African safari rifle for a really long time shoots a 300 grain at 2500 FPS. These rifles start to get a bit heavier to help with inertia but i cry bullshit. a 300 grain slug fired from a 375 sucks. Kicks like a prick and you better have your face on it right or get ready for a bust in the chops.

416....Yeah i would give that a go. Even if i get 2 black eyes its worth it.

a 22... shots a 30 grain bullet at around 1500 fps.

It is the FORCE that i was drawn to. And the math. I think its why i handloaded. That was way before cannabis became my hobby of choice. It used to be lots and lots of guns.

funny enough my favorite gun surprise of all time was a little bolt action 17 Mach 4. Holy shit does that bullet scream out of the gun...hardly any kick.

Better than a 22-250 for varmint but its rough on barrels. It used to be the highest muzzle velocity of any rifle.

A friend of mine was nuts like me but he went with easier to shoot stuff...and you can handload a lot of 17s for the cost of a few big bullets.

 

[gwheels]

I sold them all. I lost interest. It was my first wife's Dad I hunted with and after we broke up...im not falling for that antler hat bud...

Fast forward 30 years and we have a great relationship. I spend the weekend with them every couple of months to play cards.

Life is funny.

And my 1st wife was a complete and absolute trainwreck...she still is...but i wouldnt change a thing.

She taught me that i was worth MORE
She taught me that I would never settle for a bitch again.
And I got 2 great kids and 3 grandkids and counting out of it.

She is still bark raving mad and I am grandpa of the year...and I dont even want to gloat. I am just happy to be in their lives and have a chance to be a grandpa of reckoning.



And they call me G....i love it

 

[Baron]

just look at the 308....aka 7.62 NATO vs the Rigby I believe after 30-06 it was the american standard caliber until 5.56 (223) took over.

It is like a mini cannon shell.

I would love to see a genius make a handgun for it...and then watch the you tube video of giving it a shot.

416 rigby sends a 400 grain bullet at 2400 FPS....that is ridiculous. almost 5200 foot pounds of smack in .416 diameter. Like being hit by a very tiny buick. BOOM

A 308 can fire a 180 grain at 2500 to 2600.

375 H&H which was the standard minimum African safari rifle for a really long time shoots a 300 grain at 2500 FPS. These rifles start to get a bit heavier to help with inertia but i cry bullshit. a 300 grain slug fired from a 375 sucks. Kicks like a prick and you better have your face on it right or get ready for a bust in the chops.

416....Yeah i would give that a go. Even if i get 2 black eyes its worth it.

a 22... shots a 30 grain bullet at around 1500 fps.

It is the FORCE that i was drawn to. And the math. I think its why i handloaded. That was way before cannabis became my hobby of choice. It used to be lots and lots of guns.

funny enough my favorite gun surprise of all time was a little bolt action 17 Mach 4. Holy shit does that bullet scream out of the gun...hardly any kick.

Better than a 22-250 for varmint but its rough on barrels. It used to be the highest muzzle velocity of any rifle.

A friend of mine was nuts like me but he went with easier to shoot stuff...and you can handload a lot of 17s for the cost of a few big bullets.

You are correct, after ww2 the standard issue weapon was the m14-7.62 nato, fyi there are a couple companies making single shot hunting hand guns in 308 and 30-06

 

[Turpman]

I have a sharps replica in 45-70.
Only black powder I shoot but what a hoot. I cast a 530Gr bullet for it. Slow but rings the gong like no tomorrow.
Fist time loading black is a little scary.
Basically the charge fills the whole case then you compress till you get to where your bullet sits. Then push the bullet till it sits on the powder. No gap.
The powder crunches a little when your compressing it. Feels odd but that’s how black works.
And if you have a head wind you need to wait for the smoke to clear before inhaling. Shits harsh LOL

 

[gwheels]

That marlin 45-70 lever action is great!...KA BOOM...KA BOOM

there is no replacement for displacement.

Another funny story.....when i was a kid i got into science books (8 to 10 or so)....I read up on how to make black powder...then i went to the drug store and bought sulfur and saltpeter..what are you using it for...i dont know my dad needs it.

then i ground charcoal briquettes on bricks in the garage and made a giant coffee can of blackpowder....

Did it work....you better believe it....My Dad was real nice when he talked to me about it but we had to take up something other than science books.

I bought a bunch of military surplus rifles in the old days...there was a website in Canada...buy a lee enfield 303 and get a mauser for 1 buck. No shit..It was like seed sales but GUNS.

when i hit 18 i thought wow this is a problem...because i need a bigger gun safe.

I had the 7.62 x 54 R and the 6.5 x 55 swedish...the latter is a great rifle the russian was very mass produced crap.

 

[Baron]

I have a sharps replica in 45-70.
Only black powder I shoot but what a hoot. I cast a 530Gr bullet for it. Slow but rings the gong like no tomorrow.
Fist time loading black is a little scary.
Basically the charge fills the whole case then you compress till you get to where your bullet sits. Then push the bullet till it sits on the powder. No gap.
The powder crunches a little when your compressing it. Feels odd but that’s how black works.
And if you have a head wind you need to wait for the smoke to clear before inhaling. Shits harsh LOL

Love the smell of black powder, I have hunted with a 50 cal muzzle loader fo about 3 decades.

 

[Deleted member 60]

My older brother (RIP) had a Miltary Collector's license and......I'm guessing that all of that shit is still in his basement. I only went down there once...for a second....and had to tell him "and you think >>>>I<<< am crazy because I grow weed?" Fuck me. He could have started a War with that shit. IMO...all of it should have been confiscated because when he died....his license to own them died as well. Not sure how...or if...any of that is followed up on but it should be....