{"id":5019,"date":"2014-04-22T20:50:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T00:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=5019"},"modified":"2014-04-22T20:50:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T00:50:54","slug":"plumbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=5019","title":{"rendered":"The Elegant Plumber"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I plumbed up our new corn planting tender. We apply two different liquid fertilizers as we plant, so we’re setting up a trailer with tanks on it to hold each kind of fertilizer, and then plumbing it so we just have to turn valves to switch between the different kinds.<\/p>\n

Tom and I drew a plumbing schematic on a big piece of cardboard, but that master plan disappeared somewhere along the line. Today when I started laying it out I quickly got confused and seemed to have many more plumbing fittings than I needed.<\/p>\n

After much head-scratching I laid it all out with little red tubes standing in for the real connections.[1]<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Prototype\"<\/a>
Prototype<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ah, it’s all starting to make sense now!<\/p>\n

Now there was nothing to do but cut the real tubing to connect everything. After a few judicious snips, it looked like this.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The Real Thing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The Real Thing Again<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The plumbing may look a bit messy, but it’s going to be wonderfully simple to use. You’ll open a valve on the left to fill one or the other of the tanks, and then open a valve on the right to empty one or the other of the tanks.<\/p>\n

In years previous we had to switch hoses between tanks. Which meant dragging hoses all over the place, tripping over them, splashing fertilizer everywhere while doing so. <\/p>\n

This is really going make our corn planting go much smoother.<\/p>\n

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1.<\/a> Notice the two short pieces of red tubing duct taped together at the left center of the picture to make a long run? Ah, duct tape, is there nothing you can’t not do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I plumbed up our new corn planting tender. We apply two different liquid fertilizers as we plant, so we’re setting up a trailer with tanks on it to hold each kind of fertilizer, and then plumbing it so we just have to turn valves to switch between the different kinds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}