Can a ball hitch be converted to a pin hitch for towing?

[JoceAndChris]

Ours tastes very very stony. I then put it through the Brita jug though and it's nicer than any bottled mineral water.

I like the idea of the light that comes on when the water's running low! Our pump just runs and runs, making a horrid noise and probably knackering the pump, and then I know to go and flick the switch in the attic to switch it off. There are two switches up there - well and rain - it's a similar set up to yours. If the well's run out, you can switch to rain and vice versa.

One thing though,the previous owner made a huge fuss of rationing the well water in periods of drought.I don't think it makes any difference, if you don't use it the ground will. It is exactly like digging a hole on the beach, when there's water, it will fill up, when there isn't, it won't. Nothing to do with your usage. It took me a long while to really get that.

Robin, my guess is your extension is built over the well. But the rain harvesting sounds eminently sensible if water must be metred. I wonder what will happen to the water table if the country all start harvesting rainwater for their garden use? It will go back into the ground, and continue on its journey I suppose.

The UK's population has got to start realising that we can't go on reproducing and using the water as we have in the last 20 years.

 

[Moo]

There was an item about that on a recent news programme. If too many people start drilling boreholes the whole natural rainwater cycle might be affected.

 

[Feltwell]

Our pump just runs and runs, making a horrid noise and probably knackering the pump

Yes - afraid so! Submersibles especially don't like being ran dry (I know a bit about pumps from my father - he runs a pump company).

The National Housebuilding and Renovaton Show (or whatever the hell it was called!) that I went to at the NEC last week had quite a few stands offering rainwater harvesting setups, all with large external underground storage tanks and aimed very much at the self-builder. If you're building from scratch then I can see the sense, especially if you've got a digger on site, but to convert most existing properties would be a lot of work and disruption - not just siting the tank but also then setting up the seperate feed to the loos, washing machine (apparently that's OK on rainwater - it's always soft water I suppose) etc could be quite intrusive. I guess it gets more feasible if you're doing major renovation work anyway.

 

[philpjuk100]

You can buy submersible pumps with built in level switches which prevent them running without water.

 

[eezageeza]

Our borehole supply is so much simpler than the arrangements you guys are describing - in fact, apart from the fact that the water pressure in the house is a bit low (because it's just gravity fed from the loft) you wouldn't know it wasn't a mains supply - all the workings are "invisible"!

Our borehole pump is controlled by an electronic system housed in the water storage tanks in the loft, so it turns on when the water level is low, and off again when the tanks are full. All the water in the house is then gravity-supplied from the loft. The borehole pump is easily powerful enough that it can outrun any amount of usage in the house, so even if you're running a bath, and the dishwasher, and flushing all the loos simultaneously, it'll still fill the tanks faster than they'll empty. And that's it!

So Joceandchris - it might be going to cost £12k, but boy, it's convenient!

 

[Penners]

This is amazing!!

Five pages of thread and (apart from a very brief meander into handbagland) it's stayed on topic throughout! :shock:

Anyway, do we prefer plain or milk chocolate Easter eggs?

 

[skier-hughes]

What about white chocolate, you racist swine :twisted:

 

[Penners]

Well done, Graham. You took the bait!

 

[Fred Drift]

Talking of the price of fish, I'll have the bloody union on you Penners. Just remember, I'm watching you. :shock:

 

[LadyArowana]

Talking of the price of fish, I'll have the bloody union on you Penners. Just remember, I'm watching you. :shock:

Thanks for the timely reminder Fred, could you let me know if Mrs Smithers collected the silver spoons on Saturday morning or were they sold to someone else in the afternoon?

 

[skier-hughes]

Unfortunately someone stole the gold bars at exactly noon.

 

[Penners]

Talking of the price of fish, I'll have the bloody union on you Penners. Just remember, I'm watching you. :shock:

You've trained me too well, Fred. I've never forgotten your timely advice, "Think not of the tea-tray as you sharpen the chisel."

 

[skier-hughes]

Surely when hammering the nail one should always think of the kit kat?

 

[Flyfisher]

NURSE! QUICK NURSE! They've all stopped taking their medication.

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Il mio cetriolo e troppo grande.

 

[Penners]

FW sta sognando di nuovo. :roll:

 

[LadyArowana]

FW sta sognando di nuovo. :roll:

Wasn't it Christmas near Wales last week?