2012 - Volume #36, Issue #1, Page #26
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Shop Vac-Powered Water Removal
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Perron uses the big 1,000-gal. tanks at planting time to fill sprayers. At the end of the season, he stores the tanks – which don’t have drainage valves -- in a shed.
He cut two holes (1 and 1 1/4 in. dia.) in the top of the 20-gal. pressure tank and welded couplings into them, then attached nipples, elbows, and a short length of pipe on each coupling. He connected a 5-ft. long hose between one coupling and the shop vac, and he connected a 25-ft. long, plastic swimming pool hose to the other coupling. He also glued pvc pipe and a shutoff valve to the drain hole at the bottom of the tank.
He simply turns on the shop vac to suck water out of the 1,000-gal. tank and into the pressure tank. When the pressure tank gets full he shuts off the shop vac, then opens the tank’s shut-off valve and drains the water onto the ground.
“The shop vac is still sucking up the water but it’s deposited into the pressure tank,” says Perron. “A shop vac is designed to hold water, so if the tank gets too full and water flows into the shop vac it won’t get damaged. The tank and shop vac are light enough that I can throw them in back of my pickup and take them wherever I want. I think the same idea would work with shallow water spills, too.”
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Emile Perron, 2560 Port Royal Road, Adams, Tenn. 37010 (ph 802 238-0561; havablas@hotmail.com).
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