rain coming

[hrpearce]

Missed another 10mm but now we are ready to catch the lot. This tank is sealed so I wont find dead birds in it like I found in the bottom of the old one I didn't tell Vicki about that find

[cliff]

Originally Posted by hrpearce

Missed another 10mm but now we are ready to catch the lot. This tank is sealed so I wont find dead birds in it like I found in the bottom of the old one I didn't tell Vicki about that find

Reminds me of the time just after I got married (26 years ago) and we were living in a rural area in New Zealand. We decided to clean out the house tank and found the swallows had been nesting in it so we found rotten eggs, dead chicks and a dead possum that was quite ripe in the bottom and yes we were drinking it for a few months before hand and never got sick!

[aj.lec]

We had a dead peacock in our hot water overhead feeder tank
only found out he was there when the water coming out of the taps started to smell
We have had 19mm in the last week

[cliff]

last night we got about an inch of rain but the forecast is for fine sunny days and cold nights for the next week or so. A return to Queenslands normal winter weather "Hooray"!!!! at long last as it has been an unusual wet time of late.

[hrpearce]

Finally no more water carting the pipe is in the ground from the cattle yards to my old pump house. I rebuilt an old twin diaphram pump that fits on the PTO of the tractor. It took 10 hours and 15 leters of diesel to pump 6000 galons of water across and fill both tanks. That shore beats carting 600 leters an hour on the ute.

[hrpearce]

Just my luck, pump the tanks full then get 9mm of rain overnight and it's still raining.

[Howard]

Originally Posted by hrpearce

Finally no more water carting the pipe is in the ground from the cattle yards to my old pump house. I rebuilt an old tein diaphram pump that fits on the PTO of the tractor. It took 10 hours and 15 leters of diesel to pump 6000 galons of water across and fill both tanks. That shore beats carting 600 leters an hour on the ute.

I feel your pain, Robert. Until we bought our house 8 years ago we lived in a friend's farm house. When the rain water ran out we carted water from the nearest stand pipe 15 km away, two ton at a time...
I miss the farm, but not the summer weekend job of carting water!!!

[hrpearce]

We had 30mm of welcome rain the last two days but while we were in Wagga yesterday the wind had some fun with the machinery shed on Mum's side of the farm