How long a hose pipe can a spigot push?

[Geetch]

I have a food plot about 500 feet from the house. Can a spigot push water with enough pressure that far to run a yard impact sprinkler? I have a 1/2 HP pump on the well.

[Mossback]

Depends on the water pressure at the spigot.

It has been too long since I took pump opps to figure that out, I don't know the PSI required to push that particular sprinkler, and I don't have the book anymore. Otherwise I would figure it out for you.

[Bad Habit]

I run a 4000 psi 4 GPM pressure washer with up to 1000' of hose- I have the commercial duty 100' hoses- they are a larger diameter and will flow more water- the standard household cheap green hoses will burn up the pump for lack of water.

[TheVisorGuy]

Fill up a IBC or another container closer to the plot, then pump the water from the container to the plot with one of those cheap harbour freight pumps

[LabLuvR]

Friction loss will kill you. Probably a trickle at best.

[scatter shot]

Friction loss will kill you. Probably a trickle at best.

That just sounds dirty coming from you.

[Timsmith]

Deep well or swallow well pump


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[fuzzy]

Call turbo.

[lil 2 sleepy]

it won’t push a sprinkler with any kind of pressure. A 40/20 will start out with maybe 15psi or so that far put, but drop down as tank empties.

If you change the points to something crazy on a 3/4” line it’ll work

[DRDUCK]

Friction loss will kill you. Probably a trickle at best.

Yep. You can push a bunch with a bigger Dia. hose.

[Johnny Reb]

Shouldn’t be a problem just run your numbers in this formula.




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[Johnny Reb]

Actually use this formula. It might be easier.




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[lowbudget]

Not sure of my water pressures but i'm on city water so i'm estimating 40psi. I run an elevated impact sprinkler on a 4' tripod with about 250' of 3/8" and 1/2" hose. Get about 30'-40' radius out of it.

[2thDoc]

the answer is 7

[turbo]

I have a food plot about 500 feet from the house. Can a spigot push water with enough pressure that far to run a yard impact sprinkler? I have a 1/2 HP pump on the well.

Yes, it will push water that far.

However, depending on your plot size, you will be moving that sprinkler around a bunch.

It won't be covering 100ft circle, I can promise you that. Maybe 25ft diameter or so if'n you're lucky and are running a big old hose.

I used to run the commercial hoses about 200ft downhill at my house and was pretty disappointed in the throw of the sprinkler.

If you can tell me the ID of the hose, the length of run, the gpm flow at the spigot, and the pressure at the spigot, I can tell you exactly what your pressure drop will be at 500ft assuming level ground. You won't like the answer, though.

[turbo]

If it's not level, I'll need to know the elevation change to compensate.

Also, the equations look a little more like this:

[Carolina]

How do you get the velocity?

[scbulldog]

that's weird, I got brown

the answer is 7

[turbo]

How do you get the velocity?

From the flow rate (gpm) and the ID (cross sectional area).

[Geetch]

You learned folks confuse me but I think what I get out of this is that it won't work.