A couple of months back I was lucky enough to win an Arduino starter kit from the folk at Mindkits. With the Christmas break upon us we’ve finally had some time to get our first project underway - a wireless water tank level gauge.
Our main water tank for the farm is out of view of [...]

We are very fortunate to have a prolific spring on the property that supplies all the water we need. While we currently use petrol and diesel-powered pumps to move the water around the farm, we have always planned on using more sustainable methods.The first step is the installation of a water ram pump.
Ram pumps work [...]

This is the main water tank for the farm troughs, gardens, trees etc. It holds 15,000 litres when full but when a horse or cow trips over a pipe it tends to hold zero water fairly quickly. After finding an empty tank last night it was time to fix the problem.

I needed a system to [...]

We’ve got a little dip near a new track we’ve put in. It looked like it might collect water but this is the first time I’ve seen it wet. The lie of the land makes me think it’s an important collection point for run-off from about half the front bowl so we might have to [...]

Our new water tank has just arrived - all I had to do was move it into position and plumb it in. The tank is on one of the highest parts of the farm, in an old fertiliser bin, used when the farm airstrip was still in use to crop dust the farm. It only [...]