by Brian White
Dripper irrigation. A no pump method to drip water.
8:23 pm in Being a good member of this community, Education, energy consumption, Help the project by testing this, How-Tos, Materials and Resources, Outside Farms, posts with pitcures!, Projects in Process, R&D-I-Y, Uncategorized, Water flow by Brian White
I have only done this outside but it probably works good inside too. The advantages are, no pump, can use dirty water, very low tech, can work for a long time unattended.
Best vid for understanding it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3yQOVUR1TpQ
Playlist is at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkzXlmAwZTZdjGtjJpCYm2gSGVGwA033M&feature=view_all
Brian
HI. Which of your videos shows the actual setup? I started watching one but got motion sickness
It looks interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yQOVUR1TpQ The project started about September first. (I always have this misguided hope that people will join in)
I have some good pictures of a no pump method at http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8321/8036246665_9ddca6c012_z.jpg I call it TCMtech dripper irrigation. It works great with rain water. I had a barrel in October and it was going so slowly that the rain falling into the barrel was keeping the level up for over a month. It is very adjustable. I could just as easily set up the 50 gallon barrel to empty in about an hour.
hey Brian thanks for all the advice you put on here. I ran across your tutorials and videos on youtube. I’m currently engineering my WF, I see all the trial and error. But my god, is this so exciting or what? I can’t wait til the day when more people join in so we can finally shut down GMO’s and Monsanto. I’m still in the drawing phase but I already went out and purchased a few supplies to get me started. I’m also trying to make it as cheap as possible by reusing old grocery bags that I will fuse to create sturdy support. So far everything is going cherry. How is your system going?