Water assistance program kinda doesn’t make sense

[TSIPP]

The pipe is HDPE so it’s pretty ridge, I’ll be using compression fittings and maybe a few saddles where I’ll connect frost free hydrants.

I haven’t used an electric watering bowl for about 20 years, the water flows into a tire trough and whatever the cattle don’t drink flows into a nearby slough, my late fall early wintering site 2 1/2 miles away has an artesian well that flows 52 psi it’s 450 feet deep it only flows 20 gallons a minute but if I pulled the screen out it’ll flow about 300 gallons a minute, it dose flow into a large slough.

I’ve tried numerous times to post a couple pictures with my iPad and it won’t load, I have posted pictures before but I can’t seem to get it done.

[shtferbrains]

Need water to have a pasture. Sounds like you are well set up.

[TSIPP]

I’m fairly set up but after a 4 year drought the rules keep changing, an old fashioned winter with lots of snow would really help the water situation.

[TSIPP]

Some of my land was bought because of the water on it but one quarter with a spring fed dugout on it tested well over twelve thousand ppm of total dissolved solids, I’ve never heard of water that bad in this area, I guess I know why nothing left a muddy foot print near the water.

[the big wheel]

What the hell good is digging another dugout
If there is no water to put in it. If there is snow
The old ones will fill won’t need the new one.
Should have been some assistance for hauling
As well as piping. In our area no water
Close enough to pump. If you want to keep
An industry going do what’s needed immediately
Then loon further down rhe road.
Not one person received the so called feed assistance
Yet around here has anyone?

[15444]

What the hell good is digging another dugout
If there is no water to put in it. If there is snow
The old ones will fill won’t need the new one.
Should have been some assistance for hauling
As well as piping. In our area no water
Close enough to pump. If you want to keep
An industry going do what’s needed immediately
Then loon further down rhe road.
Not one person received the so called feed assistance
Yet around here has anyone?

Word I was told by AgriRecovery program worker is that no cheques are going out till program closes Nov 1.

[TSIPP]

Digging is a little slow, extremely dry and dusty hard clay, about a third of the trench is done. I dumped 5 inches out of the rain gage in August, I’m not sure where the moisture went.

[TSIPP]

I’ll try a picture.

[Sodbuster]

We trenched a half mile of pipe last month, was dry to 6’ and wet after that. We were averaging 180’ a hour using a 2’ bucket about 10’ deep.

[TSIPP]

We trenched a half mile of pipe last month, was dry to 6’ and wet after that. We were averaging 180’ a hour using a 2’ bucket about 10’ deep.

The best I can do is about 150 feet an hour and the tough going stuff is about half that, 32 inch bucket and 8 feet deep, probably not to bad for a 43 year old antique.