Cost Projections

[Hambone]

Is there any way to project the amount of diesel that is required to run the pump that floods a duck hole? Just for talking purposes, let's say five acres at one foot deep.

I have always hunted permanent water, and this is my first venture into flooding by artificial means.

Thanks for your insights and comments.

[SB]

There are so many variables, such has soil moisture, type of power pulling the well, diesel, LP, electric, how many gallons/minute the wells pumps.

Plan on a couple hundred dollars at the minimum.

[duckguide357]

I know back in the spring our local extension office stated that it cost about 8.50 per hour to run a power unit. That was figuring diesel at 1.75 a gallon.

[Double R 2]

Hambone

1 cuft equals 7.48 gallons

An acre foot is the volume covering an acre of area, one foot deep. One acre is 43,560 sqft, which, when you add the foot depth makes it 43,560 cubic feet. Which is about 325,851.43 gallons per acft.

5 ac-ft equals about 1.6+m gallons, plus/minus the environmental variables SB suggested.

Using duckguide357's cost estimates, it'll run you about $14.50 per hour, cost adjusted.

The only number that's missing is your gallon/minute pump capacity. Typical wells will product 20-100 GPM while very large wells will produce 2000 or more GPM.

Size matters: At 100 gpm, your talking nearly $4,000. At 500 GPM your talking about $800.

Of course, you could always wait for rain!

[gator]

let's see here, if'n i can't figure this out for ya using ramsey's stuff.....

hmm, add the 1, carry the 3, cipher the 8, debit the 2, multiply 10 squared, minus the shift in the earth.......................................wait, what was the question

gator

[Double R 2]

let's see here, if'n i can't figure this out for ya using ramsey's stuff.....

hmm, add the 1, carry the 3, cipher the 8, debit the 2, multiply 10 squared, minus the shift in the earth.......................................wait, what was the question

gator

damned southurn graduate i'm guessing

[GordonGekko]

Ramsey $14.50/hr. you must not be figuring on using off road (tax free diesel).... If I remember right our pump burns about 5 gal per hour of diesel...but we aren't gonna run it a full foot deep all around. Just the deepest part around the blind...rain helps too....

[Double R 2]

Ramsey $14.50/hr. you must not be figuring on using off road (tax free diesel).... If I remember right our pump burns about 5 gal per hour of diesel...but we aren't gonna run it a full foot deep all around. Just the deepest part around the blind...rain helps too....

... let's say five acres at one foot deep

Some ar enot going to pump at all and others I've seen will pump until it's running over the spillway. I don't know how many gallons per hour anyone's well is burning, just blew up duckguide's $1.75 figure. Just for talking purposes.

[GordonGekko]

and others I've seen will pump until it's running over the spillway

hahahaha you sir are absolutely correct...never ceases to amaze me

btw i was just yankin' your chain 'bout the diesel cost

[Hambone]

Thanks for the insights, especially yours, Double R. I never was a mathematician. As to waiting for rain, no dice! I wait all year for duck season - the last thing I want to do is have dry duck holes!

[dukmisr2005]

only thing is irrigation water will stay clear and settle out quicker on than rain... i have done this many times and when duck season came around the water was crystal clear.. never could keep in muddy.. weights and all showed bad from long distances away.. just something to keeep in mind..

and ridin the four-wheeeler around in the field made it look really fake and bad..