Free car wash

Geo-TH,In · Aug 8, 2019

Things are so dry, farmers are running irrigation pumps. Some places farmers are spraying water on the road. Just stop on road and get a free car wash. My work truck only gets washed when it rains or farmers are irrigating. I need to come up with a way to push a button and spray soap on truck just before I get a free wash.

Looks like I'll be able to get many free car washes, no rain in forecast.

One farmer converted his pump to electric last year. I find it interesting the pumps were wired using rotors, 3 phase motors, to convert 220v to 3 phase. Others are still using diesel to power pumps.

How much does it cost to operate pumps? Electric vs diesel.

markct · Aug 8, 2019

Many of the three phase pumps are run on vid type drives so they only run as fast as needed for water volume necessary. It also allows them to run on single phase

Mike M · Aug 8, 2019

It is still so wet over here in Ohio the low lands behind the Mohicanville Dam still have a lot of water in them. Had some heavy rains again the last few days.

r.w.b. · Aug 8, 2019

Started raining yesterday here wasnt much till last nite still raining this mornin,slow gentle soaking rain.
At 8 pm i had 1 inch

showcrop · Aug 8, 2019

Wear your bathing suit and put soap bucket and brush in the back.

4520BW · Aug 8, 2019

electric is a heck of a lot less than diesel. I help my neighbor some that installs them and some place have 3 phase and some places we use rotary converters. I would guess there is close to 75 pivots around me and all are electric.

ss55 · Aug 8, 2019

Some farms don't keep the electricity to irrigation pumps hooked up year around. They only pay for the weeks they are irrigating, so there is something like a hook up fee each year. The hook up fee is less than the year around meter fees would be.

K Effective · Aug 8, 2019

I just checked with my buddy, who runs eleven pivots on his farms. They paid to run three phase electric to the home farm to power a well that supplies three different pivots. There is another electric pump that covers two more. The other six are powered by three diesel-driven pumps.

When originally installed, the electric was far less expensive, allowing for a short payback for the installation cost of the service (this was done 10-15 years ago). Since then, the electric utility has made a drastic change to the fees- they charge a huge up-front fee for the service annually whether you pump a gallon or a million. I forgot to validate it today, but I remember something like $1500 due in March per service. This, reportedly, was in response to the utility losing huge amounts of money to the Mike Stamp Farms conglomerate in unpaid electricity usage.

There are, of course, other costs that differentiate the two power sources, but factoring only fuel and oil changes his current cost estimate is $6 per inch of water per acre from the diesel wells and $9 per inch of water per acre for the electric.

Geo-TH,In · Aug 8, 2019

What about birthday suit? I take it with
me whenever I go.

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