Water butt connections

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Offwego

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Water butt connections
« on: June 03, 2016, 20:14 »
I have two water butts behind my shed, the first one with liquid manure ,  second one with comfrey
I am thinking of connecting both so that the water enters the first liquid manure tub and when it reaches a level overflows into the second comfrey tank via an overflow pipe, i would then i hope be getting a dilution of both tanks at the tap point of the second.

my queries are  as follows

[1/ is this a good set up
2/ would you use it
3/ or am i better keeping them as separate tanks

I am then thinking of running an overflow off the second butt to a filtration leaky hose set up to my potatoe rows and runner beans

and finally am i thinking too much about all of this :unsure: :unsure: :unsure: :wacko:

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JayG

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Re: Water butt connections
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2016, 13:55 »
The proportions of the two potions and the dilution will obviously change as time goes on, and you will have very little control over it or even know for sure what the proportions and dilutions actually are.

If it doesn't rain they will of course stay separate unless you manually intervene.

If you connect them near the bottom, over time both butts would achieve equilibrium due to diffusion through the connecting pipe, and also empty at the same rate via the tap on the second butt, but that wouldn't work if there is a risk the pipe could become blocked by the contents ot either butt.

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Re: Water butt connections
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2016, 22:27 »
I think JG means they'll get mixed up eventually.   :lol:

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slingshot2000

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Re: Water butt connections
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2016, 19:24 »
If you connect butts together low down and either gets a leak, they will both leak to that low level.



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