hose91
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With 5 tanks now in the garage (and a 6th show tank in the house) and with the water shortage we're facing, I'm searching for a better solution to water changes than siphoning into multiple 5 gallon buckets and then carrying them to the yard to water the plants. I'm visualizing a brute garbage container on wheels that I can siphon all of my tanks into in sequence, then wheel it out on my driveway where I can drop a pump attached to a garden hose and spray the plants. I'm looking for input on
- container (Brute seems good, other options?)
- Wheeled Dolly. Is there one that will hold up to 30 or 40 gallons of water in the can and still roll (concrete in the garage, hard packed gravel in the drive way).
- Pump and garden hose. I don't have a sense for how long it takes to empty a 40 gallon can in practice. A 200 gph pump should do that in 12 minutes, but that's ideal. Anyone do this already? Does it hurt a pump to have a spray nozzle on the end of the hose like you do from a normal house spigot?
I refill from a garage utility sink via python, so I'm cool there. Just looking for a way to optimize the draining and reuse of the water more than the five gallon bucket brigade I'm using now. I have a 29, 20, and 3 10G's in the garage now, and will soon be adding another 80G tank and am currently using 3 5G buckets.
Any and all input and ideas are welcomed, thanks for the time!
- container (Brute seems good, other options?)
- Wheeled Dolly. Is there one that will hold up to 30 or 40 gallons of water in the can and still roll (concrete in the garage, hard packed gravel in the drive way).
- Pump and garden hose. I don't have a sense for how long it takes to empty a 40 gallon can in practice. A 200 gph pump should do that in 12 minutes, but that's ideal. Anyone do this already? Does it hurt a pump to have a spray nozzle on the end of the hose like you do from a normal house spigot?
I refill from a garage utility sink via python, so I'm cool there. Just looking for a way to optimize the draining and reuse of the water more than the five gallon bucket brigade I'm using now. I have a 29, 20, and 3 10G's in the garage now, and will soon be adding another 80G tank and am currently using 3 5G buckets.
Any and all input and ideas are welcomed, thanks for the time!