Recent content by ZHill

I managed to get my shed started today. I had a few old posts around the yard that I decided to reuse. One of them was bent pretty good, and I definitely won't win the carpenter of the year award with this project, but I think once I'm done it'll get the job done. I think when the aluminum...

Finally got the system up and running around 9pm this evening. I guess sediment had built up in the well, and I had to raise the valve about a foot so it wasn't sitting in mud. Once I did that the pump instantly started drawing water. I was impressed. The system hits 40psi in just over a minute...

No cracks since 1965. It's all the way my grandfather installed it. The PVC may have been installed around 1975 though. I'm going to install an inline water meter and pump as much water as the pump will allow, and basically do what you just said ; I'm going to time the GPH. That old pump...

Still doing my research on setting up my vineyard, but in the meantime I've been bored, and there is a well near my home that hasn't been used since the 1980's. It's an old Ruth Berry jet pump system from the late 1960's. The pump still works and the tank still holds pressure, so I wanted to...

It cuts off at page 67. Look at page 66. Page 67 is a continuation of the information provided on 66, but the page is cut off.

This is probably the best PDF I've read through so far. Good detail... This one actually does list some varieties and their preferred trellis system, but it stops at 67 pages ... where the information that I really want is. If someone could find me the whole version of this PDF, I'd probably...

Thanks. I've been on A&M's AgriLife website quite a bit, but there wasn't much on trellis design that I haven't also found eslewhere. I might try calling over there next week. Texas Tech's online information has been about the same. They list all of the different types of trellises, but give no...

That's what another vineyard did in the next county over according to the winery owner I spoke with. I don't have the funds to invest heavily into a secondary project, but I managed to work on a little bit of landscaping ideas. If I do a few rows of vineyard next to our pecan orchard for...

The man filled me with ideas. I guess the good-ole boy system is still intact here in Texas. --- The first people I talked to were jerks. That small town hospitality still exists apparently. I'm also thinking about clearing out some of our old structures and setting up a garden and wedding...

I was rummaging around on Google today and I found a winery less than 8 miles from my family's farm in the next town over, so I decided to stop by and ask them some questions. The owner not only gave me about an hour's worth of advice, but he also gave me a list of names and phone numbers of...

I was going to use the eye bolts for suspension along my rows, not for fastening the wire at the ends. Even when staples are used they are still tacked on loosely from anything that I've read. The eye bolts will have to bear the weight of the vines & fruit, but I will still wrap my wire around...

Still new here, but I'll give it a shot. Typical household water lines have somewhere around 40psi, maybe a little bit more, which will crank out just under 40 gallons per minute on a 1-inch pipe. A half-inch pipe? I really don't know. A drip system shouldn't require much psi, but you probably...

Those vines are small. Since they seem to be isolated, if you're feeling spiteful, cut the infected leaves off now and burn them. That will keep the fungus from spreading if it is in fact Phylloxera. It would be harder to do on a large vine or a tree.

I'll let one of the professionals answer this, but that looks like Phylloxera. We get them on our pecan trees every few years, and I know there are species that attack grape vines as well. That looks exactly like Phylloxera, unless it is a reaction from some other pest biting or stinging the...

This is the property I was considering for the large vineyard. The bottom photo shows our stock pond & well, although they're hard to see behind all of the brush. It hasn't been sprayed in a few years, and because it's not shredded right now the slope is hard to see, but the land slopes from...