Agent Orange: Friendly fire that keeps on burning. | When we toured the Imperial Valley extension farm last winter, they showed us how to start a siphon from a lined ditch like in the first picture. It involved placing the flat palm of your hand loosely over the end of the pipe and pumping. The hand acted like a check valve that would let air out of the pipe as the water tried to fill it. When you pulled the pipe the other way, the 'valve' closed to keep the water in until you pushed the pipe and forced more water in to it. Five or six strokes is all it took until water was spurting out of the pipe. You then kept the end closed until you positioned it on the wet and dry side of the ditch. When you removed the hand that was acting like a check valve, the water started to flow. I did so good that I was even awarded a major prize, as shown in the second pic ;-) As an aside, I found the Imperial Valley to be an amazing place to farm. Cheap water, an amazing growing window with a wide variety of high value crops possible, for what it is; very reasonably priced land, and an amazing climate to grow year around.
Edited by Ed Boysun 5/7/2016 07:49
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To siphon water do I need as much hose on bottom side?
