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Posted by davpal on April 05, 2006 at 22:33:52 from (216.93.96.38):
I have a windmill question for anybody who has experience with them. We have about 35 acres of really good river bottom ground but it is low and needs some tile. It doesn't have a good enough grade to a ditch to just drain it so it would have to be most likely pumped up into a ditch to get rid of the water. I was thinking of running some tile to about a 6 foot deep crock or ditch and pumping that out into a close by ditch with a windmill for power. It is quite a ways off the road so it would have to have electricity run back if I wanted an electric pump, not to mention building a pump house and or using a diesel powered pump which would be quite expensive. I think a windmill would sit there and pump all day and night and eventually drain the tile from the field. I live in Michigan and we have quite a few windy days when you would be getting a lot of free power from the windmill. The last few days here alone probably would have pumped a lot of water off this land. What would really be great is to build a containment pond and pump the water into that in the spring and pump it back out to irrigate the crops in the summer. That may be a far fetched idea but I am wondering if these mills have the capability of doing what I am talking about. Actually just a few strings of tile through this property would make a huge differnce. I have heard 60 cents per foot to put in tile, is this pretty close? I figured if I could put in $5000 dollars worth of tile and maybe a $2000-$3000 dollar windmill and pick up another 10-20 bushels of beans per acre from doing it it would pay for itself in four or five years in better yields (MAYBE!). This idea is far from happening here and these numbers are just for kicks but I am wondering if anybody has a similar set up. I am thinking of the future too as we get into extremely high costs for gas, diesel , natural gas and electricity. I am thinking if this would work it could do the job for years. Anybody done it? Thanks.
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