My pond/Food Forest

[JohnDB]

From my experience with a 4" line and a different 1" line, the 'bump' only needs to be more than the diameter of the pipe to cause an air pocket. Each bump adds up. There's a fair bit about the physics of this on the 'net. So only if you get enough positive pressure will you get flow, and even more pressure to expell the bulk of the air pockets, and then that pressure is no longer needed because you have overcome the air pocket effect.

According to that info. its not a permanent solution because vapour pressure or whatever recreates the air pockets over time. Only permanent solution (other than eliminating the bumps) is to vent them. I had to do that on the 1" line, and eventually adjust the route so that the bumps were so small as to allow flow to continue.

 

[Scm]

So you put a pond in and a food plot so you can shoot deer off the back porch,,, got ya

That is not what I was planning. But, we will need red meat after the two steers walking my pasture are gone in a couple years. I don't think we will be getting anymore steers or beef too easily then. Times are changing, fast.

 

[Scm]

I made a better drawing. Everything lays consistent except one small dip (noted) under the float valve line.

I have been under the impression that when the pond fills up and goes over the inlet, water would enter the pipe go to the red line and displace the air that would go back up the pipe and out the top. Then fill the pipe all the way from the float valve line to the pond. This does not appear to be happening.




One small note is there is 440' of total pipe from the bottom of the pond to the float valve.