Field flooding
 

Just wondering if any of you guys that pump water to flood your fields for hunting could give me general idea on how much you think it would cost to flood about 40 acres. Any idea?

I flood 24 acres for crawfish with a 4 cylinder perkins and a 10" deep well,it takes me aprox a 150 gallons of deisel

I know 900 acres just cost 130k for crawfish!

here is the basic formula to figure how much pumping you need to do. It takes aprox 25,000 gallons of water to cover one acre of land with 1 inch of water. So 40 acres would take 1 million gallons of water to be 1 inch deep. Six inches deep would be around 6 million gallons of water. Find out how much water your pump will pump in one hour and you can calculate the number of days it will take. PM me if you need me to calculate it

Also remember maximum feeding depth for puddle ducks is 6-8 inches of water. The less water the easier for them to get to the feed which will hold them there.

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X3 becuase it will due to the lack of rain lately. I have gotten 3 inches over the past couple weeks and it was still bone dry in my pond. The water table is thirsty!

With a decent size well you're looking at 6-7 days worth of pumping to get it a good depth for decoys. Cost per day depends a lot on the pump and where the water is coming from. Rain we have coming should help a lot

Thanks for the input. I'm looking into this for next hunting season so hopefully by then this drought will have busted and we will get back into a more normal pattern. I'm not necessarily looking to flood the entire area, and I know that the ground right now will soak up everything, but I'm thinking more on the lines of getting the 40 acres disked and wetting the soil enough to have a few slicks of water. Mostly for going after those bar bellies. You would think that rain water alone would suffice, but as you well know persistent rains have been hard to come by these last couple of years.

You would roughly use 300 to 400 gallons of fuel depending on weather conditions and farm fuel has been running 3.50 to 3.70 per gal. this year.