Water tranfer tank -- horses

[muddstopper]

I picked up a few of those 15gal barrels at the local hospital that laundry soap comes in. I just put a spicket in the small bung hole, 3/4in pipe I think, and attached a piece of garden hose. In the large 2in bung hole I mounted a valvestem and used my small emergency air pump to pressurize the tank. I mounted the small barrel on its side on a wooden skid fastening to it with some old rachetstrap material. To refill, I just screwed out the 2in barrel bung and stuck in the garden hose from the house. I suspect you could do the same thing with a larger barrel or even a 250gal tote. Safe air pressure was only about 15psi air pressure, over that and you risk splitting the barrel. Ask me how I know!!! Worked pretty good for watering the garden. My setup empty only weighs maybe 10lbs, so its easy to set in and out of my gator. The air pump I just connect to the cigarett port already on the gator.

 

[zzvyb6]

Get one of these. Or, just pound a well down to get water with a shallow well pump.

 

[muddstopper]

Get one of these. Or, just pound a well down to get water with a shallow well pump.

The way the wind is blowing today, I could use one of those

 

[Oregon1]

We use 330gal IBC's in the bed of a 3/4 ton pickup. It has a two inch outlet. Purchased a flexible (not green) 2 " suction hose that stays flexible to -20f. We fill it from the irrigation ditches in summer and from the well during winter. Yesterday I filled it via out home water heater - need to be flushed anyway. Not sure what the net temp was at a 150 gal fill. Pretty warm filled two stock tanks yeaterday. Stayed at 25f most of the day and was 15f this am. Very thin layer of ice.

I have also ganged 10 of them together for an irrigation project last summer and pumped to springler heads with a 6hp 2" pump. Worth the purchase

 

[crbr]

Thanks for the pictures

 

[mjncad]

Or if you feel like building something; you could make an implement similar to the one I made for watering trees during dry winters.

https://picasaweb.google.com/110106108324823291002/WaterBuffalo#

 

[CompactTractorFan]

Or if you feel like building something; you could make an implement similar to the one I made for watering trees during dry winters.

https://picasaweb.google.com/110106108324823291002/WaterBuffalo#

Nice job! That looks like a useful implement. :thumbsup:

 

[mjncad]

Thanks Kyle. It works well, and I know it's overkill for the few times I actually use it; but I wanted to try my hand at building something more complex.