While the heat baked and broiled outside
Terry and I finished making the rest of the MUCH NEEDED siphon tubes. This is the oven where we bake the tubes, turning them into soft plastic
Terry takes them out (while still warm) and forms them in the perfect shape
Done! We made around 50 or so, I lost count after a spell.
That evening we made several trips to the fields and added the new tubes in with the old ones, so we don’t have pack tubes from this area to the next!
YAY!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
Coolest tubes in the county!!! Maybe Terry could fashion one to fix my wrist 🤣 Talk to you later tonight ~
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I hope you operation goes well!
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Wow! I always wanted to know how those tubes work. How do you get the water out of the ditch and into the tube so it flows into the furrow? Water doesn’t flow up! Is it that the shape somehow guides the water high enough into the tube so it gets over the hump and flows back down?
I don’t know if that would make a post that would be interesting to everyone, but I would love to see how it works!
Bonnie
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On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 12:01 AM Life on a Colorado Farm wrote:
> Dayphoto posted: ” While the heat baked and broiled outside Terry and I > finished making the rest of the MUCH NEEDED siphon tubes. This is the oven > where we bake the tubes, turning them into soft plastic The Terry takes > them out (while still warm) and form” >
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Here you go. 🙂 There are a couple or so of the setting tubes post https://coloradofarmlife.com/2007/06/27/setting-tubes/ and here is the dam post https://coloradofarmlife.com/2007/06/29/setting-a-metal-dam/ that backs the water up so we can have lots of water to work with. Although, you have to be quick or the water runs over the sides. Thanks for stopping by and asking. 🙂
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Always so busy you two! 🙂
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Sorta like you two 🙂
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Goodness. The things that have to be taken care of.
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Little things that make up the running of the whole 🙂
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💜💜💜
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