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  • From: Robert Farr - The Chile Man <rbfarr AT erols.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Self Cleaning Irrigation Water Filters
  • Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 08:28:50 -0500

There's a fellow farmer in Loudoun County, VA, where I live, who uses a filter made for painting.  He filters water from Catoctin Creek, and says this filter works great -

TxBeeFarmer wrote:
Hello Allan and All,

I was looking at those "spin filters" too.  There was a big one you could
put on where you pump out of the pond, and there were some small ones that
go at the beginning of each drip line.  Glad I found out they don't work for
silt.  So the sand filter didn't work either?  Or did it just need to be
bigger?  Anyone have success with another type of filter?  How about disc
filters?  I was thinking of using one tank as a settling tank.  does your
silt settle out very well?

Thanks
(West Texas) Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "Allan Balliett" <igg AT igg.com>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Self Cleaning Irrigation Water Filters


  
Mark -

Last year we used those 'spin' filters that are supposed to be
self-cleaning and self-flushing. We had lots of SILT in our water. I
was fairly dissatisfied with the filtering and, frankly, they often
clogged, which is just no good. I wound up going with a pool sand
filter from Rain-flo. This, sad to say, only solved the problem of
total clogging. I feel that this season I'll be adding the spin
filters to the drip headers to keep the water 'more clear.' This
means cleaning them before each irrigation session. (I'm thinking of
getting a 2nd sand filter, which, I hope and pray, would totally
solve my silt problem.)
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