> > This is a first ever kind of a post here on AHTrimble.com ! !

I have been wanting to toy around with doing videos for quite awhile, just never could get enough time to learn an editor and everything that goes along with producing videos. Well, today is the day!!

For the better part of 2 weeks we were running out of water when irrigating the fruit trees, the gardens, and the newly planted grass. Let me clarify…we have a great well, 1-year old solar pump set-up, and well planned/installed plumbing system. The problem was we were using a lot of water to irrigate during the day, the storage tank not being full at the end of the day, and then the need to starting watering before the sun was too high in the sky with its associated heat (think ‘heat lamp’).

After much thought and exploring different ideas/solutions it became real clear that we didn’t have enough water ‘stored’ by the end of the day. We need about 600 – 800 gallons of water to start the day irrigating before the solar pump kicks on to pump water up to the storage tank. The only viable solution was a second water tank…and some minor adjustment to the float switch to turn on when there was still more water in the tank and fill the tank to its limit.

So here is the video…our first video on AHTrimble.com…hopefully not our last. I would appreciate hearing from you on what you think of the video and how we did installing the tank.

There is a cool story on how we got both the first and second water tanks…other stories for another time.

If you have any questions feel free to ask me.

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