On Thu, 27 May 2010 08:20:36 -0700, Billy wrote:

In article ,
"Wallace" wrote:

"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
u...
"MNRebecca" wrote in message

But would there
have been ditches WITHOUT such bridges in the first place? How did
you get the water out of the ditch and onto the field without the
bridge/pump system?

Of course there would have been. Watering can be moved out of the
ditch by hand very easily using a simple syphon method and that is
common enough even today. See pic on this cite:
http://www.pump-zone.com/piping/pipi...siphon-effect-
that-su
cking-sound.html


only if you turn the whole world on its head. Siphoning from a lower
to a higher point sounds like a perpetual motion machine. Are you
trolling?

You are obviously in misc.rural, FarmI has been posting in rec.gardens
for many years and is a valuable source of information to us.

"Farm1" (Fran) has been posting to misc.rural a few months short of 10
years.

Ann wrote:
On Thu, 27 May 2010 10:57:42 -0400, Tony wrote:

Imagine the task of taking it down. I doubt they could just blow it up
because of all the sediment that would put into the river - and
ultimately into the Chesapeake Bay.


Kind of a sedimental journey.

Steve
southiowa

"Wallace" wrote in message
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"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
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"MNRebecca" wrote in message

But would there
have been ditches WITHOUT such bridges in the first place? How did
you get the water out of the ditch and onto the field without the
bridge/pump system?

Of course there would have been. Watering can be moved out of the ditch
by hand very easily using a simple syphon method and that is common
enough even today. See pic on this cite:
http://www.pump-zone.com/piping/pipi...ing-sound.html


only if you turn the whole world on its head. Siphoning from a lower to a
higher point sounds like a perpetual motion machine. Are you trolling?

Are you really stupid or are you just trying to appear that way?

"Billy" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"Wallace" wrote:

"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
u...
"MNRebecca" wrote in message

But would there
have been ditches WITHOUT such bridges in the first place? How did
you get the water out of the ditch and onto the field without the
bridge/pump system?

Of course there would have been. Watering can be moved out of the
ditch
by hand very easily using a simple syphon method and that is common
enough
even today. See pic on this cite:
http://www.pump-zone.com/piping/pipi...effect-that-su
cking-sound.html


only if you turn the whole world on its head. Siphoning from a lower to
a
higher point sounds like a perpetual motion machine. Are you trolling?

You are obviously in misc.rural, FarmI has been posting in rec.gardens
for many years and is a valuable source of information to us.

I've also been posting in misc.rural for years. But I've not noticed this
'wallace' poster there before which is why I had a chuckle at the troll
comment (who's the troll: the one who's posted for years or a suddenly new
name?). Wallace can't be very 'rural' if s/he has not seen the way
irrigation is used as per the pic in the cite I gave. Mind you many of the
posters in misc.rural aren't what I'd call 'rural'.

"Ann" wrote in message
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On Thu, 27 May 2010 08:20:36 -0700, Billy wrote:

In article ,
"Wallace" wrote:

"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
u...
"MNRebecca" wrote in message

But would there
have been ditches WITHOUT such bridges in the first place? How did
you get the water out of the ditch and onto the field without the
bridge/pump system?

Of course there would have been. Watering can be moved out of the
ditch by hand very easily using a simple syphon method and that is
common enough even today. See pic on this cite:
http://www.pump-zone.com/piping/pipi...siphon-effect-
that-su
cking-sound.html


only if you turn the whole world on its head. Siphoning from a lower
to a higher point sounds like a perpetual motion machine. Are you
trolling?

You are obviously in misc.rural, FarmI has been posting in rec.gardens
for many years and is a valuable source of information to us.

"Farm1" (Fran) has been posting to misc.rural a few months short of 10
years.

God! Is it really that long? I'm suddenly feeling even older than I
normally do! You really know how to depress a girl Ann.

On Thu, 27 May 2010 14:13:36 -0500, Steve.IA wrote:

Ann wrote:
On Thu, 27 May 2010 10:57:42 -0400, Tony wrote:

Imagine the task of taking it down. I doubt they could just blow it up
because of all the sediment that would put into the river - and
ultimately into the Chesapeake Bay.


Kind of a sedimental journey.

Steve
southiowa

groan grin

On Fri, 28 May 2010 11:08:29 +1000, FarmI wrote:

"Ann" wrote in message
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On Thu, 27 May 2010 08:20:36 -0700, Billy wrote:

In article ,
"Wallace" wrote:

"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
u...
"MNRebecca" wrote in message

But would there
have been ditches WITHOUT such bridges in the first place? How
did you get the water out of the ditch and onto the field without
the bridge/pump system?

Of course there would have been. Watering can be moved out of the
ditch by hand very easily using a simple syphon method and that is
common enough even today. See pic on this cite:
http://www.pump-zone.com/piping/pipi...nd-the-siphon-
effect-
that-su
cking-sound.html


only if you turn the whole world on its head. Siphoning from a lower
to a higher point sounds like a perpetual motion machine. Are you
trolling?

You are obviously in misc.rural, FarmI has been posting in rec.gardens
for many years and is a valuable source of information to us.

"Farm1" (Fran) has been posting to misc.rural a few months short of 10
years.

God! Is it really that long? I'm suddenly feeling even older than I
normally do! You really know how to depress a girl Ann.

I checked by doing a lookup at groups.google.com; iirc the first post
they have is Aug, 2000. Didn't look up my first post but it was in early
1996 ... even more depressing.

To now go completely off topic, do you know how much damage the volcanic
ash did where Janet lives?

"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
u...
"Wallace" wrote in message
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"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
u...
"MNRebecca" wrote in message

But would there
have been ditches WITHOUT such bridges in the first place? How did
you get the water out of the ditch and onto the field without the
bridge/pump system?

Of course there would have been. Watering can be moved out of the ditch
by hand very easily using a simple syphon method and that is common
enough even today. See pic on this cite:
http://www.pump-zone.com/piping/pipi...ing-sound.html


only if you turn the whole world on its head. Siphoning from a lower to
a higher point sounds like a perpetual motion machine. Are you trolling?

Are you really stupid or are you just trying to appear that way?

There you go, as expected. Your picture does not match the picture from the
OP. Height of water intake and outgo matters when siphoning.

FarmI wrote:
"Billy" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"Wallace" wrote:

"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
u...
"MNRebecca" wrote in message

But would there
have been ditches WITHOUT such bridges in the first place? How did
you get the water out of the ditch and onto the field without the
bridge/pump system?
Of course there would have been. Watering can be moved out of the
ditch
by hand very easily using a simple syphon method and that is common
enough
even today. See pic on this cite:
http://www.pump-zone.com/piping/pipi...effect-that-su
cking-sound.html

only if you turn the whole world on its head. Siphoning from a lower to
a
higher point sounds like a perpetual motion machine. Are you trolling?
You are obviously in misc.rural, FarmI has been posting in rec.gardens
for many years and is a valuable source of information to us.

I've also been posting in misc.rural for years. But I've not noticed this
'wallace' poster there before which is why I had a chuckle at the troll
comment (who's the troll: the one who's posted for years or a suddenly new
name?). Wallace can't be very 'rural' if s/he has not seen the way
irrigation is used as per the pic in the cite I gave. Mind you many of the
posters in misc.rural aren't what I'd call 'rural'.


Siphon tubes have pretty much disappeared in my part of the U.S.
It's just too much work and the land has to be fairly flat. We had a
few when I was a kid. One thing I remember was the varmints digging and
causing leaks in the ditch.
I had relatives in Idaho who used a lot of siphon tubes. I think
the water came from the Snake River. They had some tubes as large as 4"
diameter for pasture irrigation.
Pivot irrigation is by far the most common. Some farmers are trying
subsurface irrigation. Gated pipe is still fairly common.

On May 27, 9:17*pm, Dean Hoffman wrote:


* * *Siphon tubes have pretty much disappeared in my part of the U.S.
It's just too much work and the land has to be fairly flat. *We had a
few when I was a kid. *One thing I remember was the varmints digging and
* causing leaks in the ditch.
* * I had relatives in Idaho who used a lot of siphon tubes. *I think
the water came from the Snake River. *They had some tubes as large as 4"
diameter for pasture irrigation.
* *Pivot irrigation is by far the most common. *Some farmers are trying
subsurface irrigation. * Gated pipe is still fairly common.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Siphon tubes was how we irrigated when I was a kid. I think the
tubes were
bigger then 4" tho. Or it could have been just that I was pretty
little then.

"Dean Hoffman" wrote in message
FarmI wrote:
"Billy" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"Wallace" wrote:

"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
u...
"MNRebecca" wrote in message

But would there
have been ditches WITHOUT such bridges in the first place? How did
you get the water out of the ditch and onto the field without the
bridge/pump system?
Of course there would have been. Watering can be moved out of the
ditch
by hand very easily using a simple syphon method and that is common
enough
even today. See pic on this cite:
http://www.pump-zone.com/piping/pipi...effect-that-su
cking-sound.html

only if you turn the whole world on its head. Siphoning from a lower
to a
higher point sounds like a perpetual motion machine. Are you trolling?
You are obviously in misc.rural, FarmI has been posting in rec.gardens
for many years and is a valuable source of information to us.

I've also been posting in misc.rural for years. But I've not noticed
this 'wallace' poster there before which is why I had a chuckle at the
troll comment (who's the troll: the one who's posted for years or a
suddenly new name?). Wallace can't be very 'rural' if s/he has not seen
the way irrigation is used as per the pic in the cite I gave. Mind you
many of the posters in misc.rural aren't what I'd call 'rural'.
Siphon tubes have pretty much disappeared in my part of the U.S. It's
just too much work and the land has to be fairly flat. We had a few when
I was a kid. One thing I remember was the varmints digging and causing
leaks in the ditch.
I had relatives in Idaho who used a lot of siphon tubes. I think the
water came from the Snake River. They had some tubes as large as 4"
diameter for pasture irrigation.
Pivot irrigation is by far the most common. Some farmers are trying
subsurface irrigation. Gated pipe is still fairly common.

Well it's nice to know that you at least know that they existed. :-)) They
did take a lot of work but they were also low cost and thus had some
advantages over pumps et al.

"Wallace" wrote in message
"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
u...
"Wallace" wrote in message
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"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
u...
"MNRebecca" wrote in message

But would there
have been ditches WITHOUT such bridges in the first place? How did
you get the water out of the ditch and onto the field without the
bridge/pump system?

Of course there would have been. Watering can be moved out of the
ditch by hand very easily using a simple syphon method and that is
common enough even today. See pic on this cite:
http://www.pump-zone.com/piping/pipi...ing-sound.html


only if you turn the whole world on its head. Siphoning from a lower to
a higher point sounds like a perpetual motion machine. Are you trolling?

Are you really stupid or are you just trying to appear that way?

There you go, as expected. Your picture does not match the picture from
the OP. Height of water intake and outgo matters when siphoning.

The OP asked a) whether there would have been irrigation ditches without
bridges, and b) how did the water get out of the ditch and onto the field
with a pump. My response answered both of those questions. Ask someone for
help if you can't understand that.

"Ann" wrote in message
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On Fri, 28 May 2010 11:08:29 +1000, FarmI wrote:

To now go completely off topic, do you know how much damage the volcanic
ash did where Janet lives?

She's posted to say that there were small pools of white water on her
windowsills and it was only when touched that she realised it was ash on the
top. She's also written about how the sky looks but other than that, I
dont' think it really had a huge impact on her circs.

On Fri, 28 May 2010 22:42:05 +1000, FarmI wrote:

"Ann" wrote in message
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On Fri, 28 May 2010 11:08:29 +1000, FarmI wrote:

To now go completely off topic, do you know how much damage the
volcanic ash did where Janet lives?

She's posted to say that there were small pools of white water on her
windowsills and it was only when touched that she realised it was ash on
the top. She's also written about how the sky looks but other than
that, I dont' think it really had a huge impact on her circs.

That's good then. Some news reports had mentioned Scotland as being
affected.

"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
u...
"Wallace" wrote in message
"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
u...
"Wallace" wrote in message
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"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
u...
"MNRebecca" wrote in message

But would there
have been ditches WITHOUT such bridges in the first place? How did
you get the water out of the ditch and onto the field without the
bridge/pump system?

Of course there would have been. Watering can be moved out of the
ditch by hand very easily using a simple syphon method and that is
common enough even today. See pic on this cite:
http://www.pump-zone.com/piping/pipi...ing-sound.html


only if you turn the whole world on its head. Siphoning from a lower
to a higher point sounds like a perpetual motion machine. Are you
trolling?

Are you really stupid or are you just trying to appear that way?

There you go, as expected. Your picture does not match the picture from
the OP. Height of water intake and outgo matters when siphoning.

The OP asked a) whether there would have been irrigation ditches without
bridges, and b) how did the water get out of the ditch and onto the field
with a pump. My response answered both of those questions. Ask someone
for help if you can't understand that.

Ah, you are changing your story, the mark of a true troll! (Longevity on a
group had no bearing on the determination of a troll).

She was asking if there would have been THESE ditches without such bridges,
and how would you get water out of THIS ditch without a pump. You answered
neither question, but possibly brought confusion to any reader who might not
understand how siphons work.