Thanks guys! Great bunch here. Wish I was building a bow. Maybe in the Fall.
Priority Mail tracking says the bow will arrive tomorrow. Wish I'd remembered a string
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Fred in case this info helps or gives you any ideas......my spring is located 300 feet from the house, and there's only a 3 foot drop. I ran a 1 inch poly line from it to a 200 gallon cistern under the house. The line was NOT buried, just ran over the ground. I rake some leaves over it in November, that's all. It runs continuously and never freezes, even in Vermont and 20 below zero. Actually, it's gradually burying itself.
It also runs over a creek about 6 feet wide. I made a little bridge for it out of styrofoam -- two pieces taped together like a sandwich, about 8" by 12", total cross section.
I dug NO trenches for this system, and it's been running 15 years. Two winters ago we didn't see above zero for a month. It never freezes. In fact it usually melts its a path in the snow. The little house cistern has an overflow to daylight and, as I said, runs continuously.
The little cistern has a small external $30 Harbor Freight shallow well pump nearby to pressurize the domestic system. I have an expansion tank and water heater nearby and we get 50 pounds of pressure. The pump usually lasts about 5 years, and I always have a spare. It's a very simple system. The only thing that stops it is a severe drought in summer. The new 3000 gallon cistern I'm building is located below the 200 gallon house cistern, so will receive the overflow, now wasted, by gravity feed. It will then overflow, too with a small waterfall to a wading basin. In a drought, we'll just pump back up -- approx. 60 days worth at 50 gal/day.
Hope that helps....
