I tried to post this an hour ago but me and cattle today did not like each other at the time.
I'll have to explain the pic of how our fields are set up. Most of our pastures are about 200 acres. There stair stepped up the side of a horse shoe shaped hill so the pastures fairly level but not square like the pic I'm going to post. There is a main road that runs up the middle that's used for moving the cattle form field to field and is our drive way to our house.
Down the main road there is a 6" hard plastic light green pipe (I can't think of the name for them). It branches off there is a man hole with 3" lines to go out into the pastures. The 3" lines run near the center of the fields next to the fence with a man hole about every 1,500'. In these man holes there is a T with a valve and have a 3" cam fitting for fast hose movement. I tap the line with a 3" cam fitting reduce down to 2" and have a shut off for easy movement from manhole to manhole that happens about ever 6 days or longer depending on stocking rates. The outside and inside fences are 6 strand smooth electric wire.
When I bought this land it was an over run crop land. It had sat for years and my plan was to raise some cattle and to grow irrigated hay and alfalfa. The land was already set up in stair step fashion with trees growing between fields with fairly steep hills.
I added the irrigation system in 80 and 81 with help of an engineer that helped me with the design (he is now my father in-law) and one of my two employees (this is if I can get him to work). My other employee is my oldest daughter and she works a lot harder and I pay her a lot less.
The water is pumped out of a stream on the other side of the hill. It is set up for 3 Ram pumps but currently use 2 for watering my cows. There is a shed with a holding tank for a basement that the pumps pump into and the water flows out by the 6" lines. It has an overflow to send the water down the hill into ditches. The upper pastures have about 80' of head and the lower pastures have around 160' of head. This system worked well for years being able to water about 10 acres at a time but the part of moving all the piping every day sucked; I did this for about 15 years till it cost to much to maintain the irrigation system and I was building a nice heard and could afford to support my family with less hay cutting.
I will add the information on how I have my water / mineral trailers set up sometime tomorrow.
I'll have to explain the pic of how our fields are set up. Most of our pastures are about 200 acres. There stair stepped up the side of a horse shoe shaped hill so the pastures fairly level but not square like the pic I'm going to post. There is a main road that runs up the middle that's used for moving the cattle form field to field and is our drive way to our house.
Down the main road there is a 6" hard plastic light green pipe (I can't think of the name for them). It branches off there is a man hole with 3" lines to go out into the pastures. The 3" lines run near the center of the fields next to the fence with a man hole about every 1,500'. In these man holes there is a T with a valve and have a 3" cam fitting for fast hose movement. I tap the line with a 3" cam fitting reduce down to 2" and have a shut off for easy movement from manhole to manhole that happens about ever 6 days or longer depending on stocking rates. The outside and inside fences are 6 strand smooth electric wire.
When I bought this land it was an over run crop land. It had sat for years and my plan was to raise some cattle and to grow irrigated hay and alfalfa. The land was already set up in stair step fashion with trees growing between fields with fairly steep hills.
I added the irrigation system in 80 and 81 with help of an engineer that helped me with the design (he is now my father in-law) and one of my two employees (this is if I can get him to work). My other employee is my oldest daughter and she works a lot harder and I pay her a lot less.
The water is pumped out of a stream on the other side of the hill. It is set up for 3 Ram pumps but currently use 2 for watering my cows. There is a shed with a holding tank for a basement that the pumps pump into and the water flows out by the 6" lines. It has an overflow to send the water down the hill into ditches. The upper pastures have about 80' of head and the lower pastures have around 160' of head. This system worked well for years being able to water about 10 acres at a time but the part of moving all the piping every day sucked; I did this for about 15 years till it cost to much to maintain the irrigation system and I was building a nice heard and could afford to support my family with less hay cutting.
I will add the information on how I have my water / mineral trailers set up sometime tomorrow.
