Water Trailer Size

[todd92]

I will be buying a water trailer for various uses on my farm. I will be pulling it with my Kioti NX5510 HST. Obviously more water would be nice, how big a water trailer is sensible? 500 gal about 5000 lb gross, 1000 gal about 10,000 lb gross. I think a 1600 is too big.

 

[RedNeckRacin]

Does the tank have baffles? Are you going to load it, drag it somewhere, then empty it? OR, are you going to move from place to place emptying at different places? What type of terrain? How much does your tractor weigh? Does the trailer have brakes?

With no baffles and no brakes, I wouldn't go more than about 3/4 of the tractor weight. If it is baffled and braked, I might try double the tractor weight. Slow speed is also much different than booking down the road in high gear.

 

[todd92]

Tractor weight 4200 lbs. Will be filling 1/2 mile down the road from a pond. Tank is baffled. Trailer has surge brakes. It will be used to irrigate new orchard plantings and for dust control on roads. One hill to go up to get in the orchard, down would be empty. No side hills. Speed when working will be slow, 2 mph.

 

[bigtiller]

I had a 330 gallon tank in my pickup to water 150 new trees. It worked out okay, each tree got about 2 gallons every time we watered. If I had more trees I don't think I would have went with a bigger tank.

 

[Deere Dude]

I would go with 1000 gallon tank. If you find out it is to heavy just don't put so much water in it.

I pull a small 300 gallon tank around with my 3500# tractor and have absolutely no problem. Now I pull it with a ball on the end of my forks but if it was much heavier I wouldn't do that. The trailer is too small or I would throw another 300 tank on it and pull it from the rear.

As long as your tank is balance on the trailer get a big 1000 galloner.

 

[newbury]

Why not get a regular trailer and multiple IBC totes? You can get them in 300 gallon size, with metal cage, often for $50@. I've got 3 that Taylortractornut gave me for free.

 

[boggen]

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i might encourage just a general sprayer. granted i would more likely see the sprayers for actual spraying chemicals on fields. but... from sounds of it you are spraying a field of trees! just change out some boom hoses, and remove some other nozzles from booms. and go down the rows, spraying water were you want it.

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ya i know odd, but there tend to be pure tanks listed, with maybe some sort of simple "boom" directly on the rear.

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google "septic tank"
ya i know another odd ball. but over years only search terms i been able to come up with, that will get me to websites / dealers that actually sell large size tanks. and search terms so far hold true over the years.

but once you start looking at various dealer websites, you can get into other types of water tanks. heck even a septic tank might work and many times come with baffles inside. (though maybe not baffles you want).

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you can always get a generic "sprayer" make it a skid sprayer, 3pt hitch sprayer, pull behind / trailer sprayer. and then hook up a larger tank to it. to get you more "volume" of water to work with.

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is there already a "pumping station" per say at the pond, to fill up with water?
or do you need room on trailer to haul around a gas trash pump?
along with do you need to haul suction hoses with trailer, to deal with getting water from pond?

height difference between top of water (lowest pond generally gets in summer), to top of water tank/s on trailer?

or are you looking at some sort of "PTO" driven pump? that is able to handle some solids? to suck water from pond and dump it into your tank/s?

are you making custom booms or some sort of setup to help water trees, or manually getting out and dealing with some hoses to water trees?

are you just going to toss a water tank on a regular car hauler or skid steer or like trailer, and go at it?

above questions, more geared towards, trying to figure out what you want in the end, to meet your needs.

 

[Tractor Seabee]

I would look into those GI surplus water trailers, 500 gallon, fiberglass so a lot of the weight is in water not tank. I have seen them as cheap as $750, one at the auction a while back sold for $200, nobody wanted it.

Ron