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Strangeness at the bottom of the garden: 100-ball quiz




by Christophe » 25/04/08, 21:00

In your opinion what is this structure at the bottom of our garden?

I've been asking myself this question for a year but I don't have a precise answer ... just a few clues that I would give you later so as not to disturb your judgment :)

The pipe is a water supply pipe used in the roads and the other end is in the stream which forms the border between the garden and the forest in the background.

There is a "remnant" of what is supposed to be an old basin completely buried over the years ...

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by loop » 25/04/08, 21:24

hi Christophe

From what we can see from the structure:

6 posts of significant section in I
a light structure (wire) in the shape of a cylinder with fixing plates
an upper part capable of receiving a reservoir of a certain volume
proximity to water

I deduce that it would be a kind of water tower which had to be dressed with a flexible material cylinder and which received at its top a cylindrical tank

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by Christophe » 25/04/08, 21:31

Bravo looping! This is also the most "realistic" conclusion I have come to ... but it took me 6 months : Lol: : a vestige of a mini water tower (or water silo) ...

In fact it is precisely because the structure is not so light (the 6 main uprights are 6mm beams I think) that we thought of a structure carrying a heavier load ...
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by Rabbit » 26/04/08, 01:25

Probably the remains of a hydraulic ram and its
water tank.
If the construction is lower than the level of the stream at
level of capture, this will confirm my impression.

The basin was to be used to receive the water discharged by the ram.
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by Christophe » 26/04/08, 11:33

Ah well seen rabbit the blow of the hydraulic ram.

It is very likely but not certain ... maybe it was the idea but never made ... a good reason to try to restore it!

What do you mean by "at the catchment level"? The other end of the pipe is in the submerged in the stream ...

ps: here is a video of a hydraulic ram operation
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by Rabbit » 26/04/08, 14:48

In fact for a hydraulic ram to work it needs a drop.
The catchment point (that's what I call it) is the
point where the water used to feed the ram will be captured.

Whether the catchment is located near a lake, a pond or a stream,
problem remains the same. It takes a drop.

But it is interesting to know what is the difference in level between
the point where the water collects from the stream and the ground level
at the place of the schmilblic. The tank could be a reserve
to prevent debris charier by the stream from entering the ram. The system's advantage is that it will maintain a constant level in the event of a flood.
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by Remundo » 26/04/08, 17:08

There is a Belgian association CODEART, whose site I found

http://www.codeart.org/technique/eau/be ... e_5_fr.htm

which explains well the hydraulic ram ...

We envisioned at one time using it to generate a pressure source for Pascal HA PHAM's trilobic machines

Fortiches these Belgians, huh :?: :P
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by gegyx » 26/04/08, 17:56

: roll:
For a ram, you need a drop. Along a stream, it's minimal.
I understand that we can accentuate the difference in height, by digging a sump, to place the pump lower than the level of collection on the river, to raise a part of it 4 m higher.
But in fact, there is much more water discharged, than water returned to the tank. This is the principle of Aries.

The intake of water from the catchment, perhaps requires 30 to 100 l / m, at zero pressure at the start. The supply pipe should already have a hell of a section!

But frankly, in your garden, do you see an evacuation which would allow to reject all the "waste" of water? In a lower channel, towards the road? that would be astonishing, because generally the grounds are sloping towards the watercourse….
If the discharge went back to the river, it should be very far downstream.
If it comes back to the river at your level, there is no difference in level, no difference in water height.
So no ram.
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You can always put a tank on the wire mesh, powered by an electric pump, or wind turbine.
Only in the utility of making a constant sprinkling with pipes “drop by drop”, without an electric pump not running permanently.

To hide the trellis, you plant climbers. Roses, as in public gardens. Honeysuckle, because it smells good (and I like it), or miscanthus…
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In my opinion, as the law may prohibit individuals from pumping in the river. The former owner made a sump, lower than the river, in order to be fed naturally by the tablecloth (or even by helping it a little, with a hidden pipe ...)
And he pumped directly into his sump, to fill the buffer tank.
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by tigrou_838 » 28/04/08, 09:23

Hello everyone, from what I see in the photo,
it is a missile silo (structure) which used the water pressure mounted with a ram from the river to the water reserve just below the biogas digester (fuel for the missile), and then, no longer being used, became an architectural delirium half rolled up, fortunately there are always companies of moles all around to watch that no one comes to the damaged.

snag

tigger in full delirium.
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by tigrou_838 » 28/04/08, 09:28

seriously:

I am just thinking of a water reserve to compensate for the losses due to the evaporation of your 70m3 tank.

from what I could see, it will be as plausible as possible.

taking the levels, the top of the frame, plus 1 to 2 meters, must not be far from the level of the tank of 70m3.

it is to advance the schilllimilllimmiiimi -------- blicc

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