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Getting water out of my tanks and butts.

gagsmediagagsmedia Posts: 54
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I’ve just finished a 14m x 4 m Pollytunnel. I have a 1000litre IBC and 8x 210litre butts located around various out buildings.

Currently due the dry spell I have been using my hose with spray gun attached to a tap. But the last week of rain means all my butts are full and the IBC tank too.

If I want to continue using my hose and spray gun but use this water from the IBC and Butts what the best solution?

I don’t want to be really waiting around filling  watering cans etc...I just want a way of getting the water out under pressure so I can use my spray gun and hose.

I’ve connected the hose directly to the IBC and butts but the pressure wasn’t enough for my spray gun...no water came out....

any ideas? I want to use my tap as least as possible....My car port filled 3 x 210litre butts in a week...

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited May 2021
    Connect them to a seep hose.  No pressure needed, just gravity.  I have found seep hoses far more efficient with water than a sprinkler or spray as it all goes in the soil with less lost to evaporation.  Healthier tomatoes too last year as no water on the leaves.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I think you'd need some kind of pump.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    The Hozelock jet pump or similar would be the type of thing to use if you've got electric near by.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • gagsmediagagsmedia Posts: 54
    edited May 2021
    wild edges said:
    The Hozelock jet pump or similar would be the type of thing to use if you've got electric near by.
    Thanks...wasn’t aware anything like this existed


    https://www.waterpump.co.uk/garden-water-pump
  • gagsmediagagsmedia Posts: 54
    Obelixx said:
    Connect them to a seep hose.  No pressure needed, just gravity.  I have found seep hoses far more efficient with water than a sprinkler or spray as it all goes in the soil with less lost to evaporation.  Healthier tomatoes too last year as no water on the leaves.
    Not everything needs water all the time...and I’m not sure how I would do it...I would need metres and metres of hose....would a standard butt have enough pressure?
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Seep hoses come in varying lengths and have a standard connector for attaching a non leaky hose.   Hitherto I've used them in the polytunnel for tomatoes and cucumbers with a long hose leading from the mains tap and with a timer and have kept butt water for pots and rhubarb in its own bed.  PITA doing all those by hand so I'm having fewer pots this year and have made a new rhubarb bed nearer the butts and will cut a short length of seep hose for that.  If it works, I can do the same for the soft fruit bed.


    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • gagsmediagagsmedia Posts: 54
    edited May 2021
    Obelixx said:
    Seep hoses come in varying lengths and have a standard connector for attaching a non leaky hose.   Hitherto I've used them in the polytunnel for tomatoes and cucumbers with a long hose leading from the mains tap and with a timer and have kept butt water for pots and rhubarb in its own bed.  PITA doing all those by hand so I'm having fewer pots this year and have made a new rhubarb bed nearer the butts and will cut a short length of seep hose for that.  If it works, I can do the same for the soft fruit bed.


    The amount of water I can collect I’m reluctant to use my tap if I can help it...maybe as a last resort during a dry spell when all the tanks and butts are empty...
  • gagsmediagagsmedia Posts: 54
    wild edges said:
    The Hozelock jet pump or similar would be the type of thing to use if you've got electric near by.
    I bought one of these today, cheaper than the hose lock and by the looks of it much sturdier. 

    https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B08J452B57/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  • gagsmediagagsmedia Posts: 54
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhUtLDbs89Y
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