Reply #61: yes to the tee [View All]

yes the submersible would run "all the time" (manually turned on and off at the power box)

previously (from 15 years up until 10 days ago) it WAS in a series and it worked fine

additional ranch-rigged engineering for your amusement - the tee that goes to the storage goes up to top and then down inside to bottom as we never cut another opening down low - so discharge from that tank is with siphon (there is another tee and a valve off of that to fill a drinker (that had a float valve on it) but we hardly ever use it so the valve is shut and normally buried under 2 feet of sand (because the guy that originally started this project was working on the cheap too)

we are planning to add some timers and a float switch after we get a handle on the bill for this latest work (translation: been planning that for years and likely it still won't happen)

prior to the early 90's when this got started, the whole place survived off of stock ponds and 2 6-foot x 25-feet deep, concrete-cased, hand-dug wells (one, really) that used an old greasy pump jack run with an electric motor (REAL leather leathers in that cylinder LOL)

we would love to put in another shallow dug well but nobody seems willing or has a clue how to do it anymore and I sure as hell don't like handling shovels:scared: although I used to be the one that had climb down to fish out the drowned snakes and squirrels that occasionally found their way in.