[TheForge] OT: Spring tile question

[Bob Smolen]

On this subject, I live in a hilly limestone region of Wi. There is a spring 
in the valley on my neighbors place that runs a few hundred yards and goes 
back in the ground about 50 feet from our fence line. My land slopes down at 
least 30 to 50 ft from this point. The spring is in a "dry run" which drains 
a few hundred acres of surrounding land. About a half mile further down on 
land purchased by the DNR for trout rearing, there is a very high production 
spring off this same dry run. I would love to create a spring/ water source 
on my place. (My house is on the ridge about 300 ft above and has a deep 
well. )Any techniques to do so? There is vegetation around the dry run on my 
land that is water loving (I dont know the name but reeds that are used to 
polish wood by wood turners per Roy Underhill). The dry run has boulders, 
silty sand, gravel from erosion, etc. During spring run off, the dry run is 
like a small river but otherwise dry.
I saw a film years ago where a guy was using a tripod to raise and lower a 
drill bit. The power to operate came from a small gas motor and a shaft onto 
which the guy would loop a rope around and pull the slack out to raise and 
let it run off the shaft and then repeat the process. Anyone know anything 
about this process?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Ruebush" <lrt at winco.net>
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Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 7:38 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT: Spring tile question


> Andy
> For plastic tanks, check out farm supply stores or fertilizer dealers. We
> use all sizes of tanks and usually farm stores get truck loads at a time.
>
> Larry Ruebush
> west central IL
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Andrew Vida" <osan at netlabs.net>
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> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 7:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT: Spring tile question
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>
>> Kim, Larry,
>>
>> Thanks for the help.  This is for a friend and neighbor for those days
>> we lose power here, which is actually pretty often in this part of the
>> state.  I am thinking of doing the same at our place.  We have a 24x7
>> spring coming out the mountain that is flowing as low as perhaps 1 gpm
>> and as high as 5-10 I estimate.  I am thinking maybe a 2000 gallon
>> concrete tank if they can actually get it down there... pretty steep
>> slope that part of the farm.  Can always use a plastic tank, but they
>> are a bit pricey these days.  Cheapest I found was about $600 for 1500
>> gallon, plus about $400 for shipping from plasticmart.com.
>>
>> Thanks again.
>
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