Help with ideas for moving water uphill for the horses...

[MossflowerWoods]

The already paid for solution is to fill you loader bucket with water, and move it 60-75 gallons at a trip (also get a little seat time). Your bucket has a rated capacity of 9.3 cubic feet. A cubic foot of water is 7.5 gallons. Total weight is less than 600 lbs. Not a long term solution,but quick, easy and best of all paid for until you can get a well in.

Bo

Bo,

I've been considering this exact idea (I would need to wash out the bucket first though!) my biggest concern doing it this way is actually that I must somehow drive UP the very steep driveway without spilling all of the water...

In addition to seat time, I would get bucket feathering time.

Pic 1 and 2 are the steep side. Pic 3 is the less steep side...

BTW - I was planning to use the bucket to haul the water box/basket BlueRiver suggested up the hill also!

 

[Oldgreybear]

Other side of the cheap solution is to ratchet strap a piece of plywood over the top of the bucket to hold in the water. It means you can't just run and dump the water, you have to get off the tractor, but we do need the exercise!

Bo

 

[logan97]

I did not read threw all the posts, someone may have already suggested this You could build a small building with a roof say 10' by 10' with gutter and down spout, bury a tank in the ground you can fill it and pump or gravity feed the water out. I have done this and it works quite well. I can provide pics if needed.

 

[MossflowerWoods]

I did not read threw all the posts, someone may have already suggested this You could build a small building with a roof say 10' by 10' with gutter and down spout, bury a tank in the ground you can fill it and pump or gravity feed the water out. I have done this and it works quite well. I can provide pics if needed.

Logan,

Pics please!

If I follow you you are suggesting a rain barrell for a run-in shed. I suspect that would help, but we don't get THAT much rain...

But I do like the idea...

David

 

[Depmandog]

What Blueriver was suggesting was a IBC 275 gal tote. I buy them by the tractor trailer load for $35 used for work. For one tote, I would check Craigslist, or a container supplier (barrel supplier). $75 for one seems reasonable.

Shouldn't be too hard find. BUT, not all had foodstuffs originally. It could have traces of chemical residues. They should be "rinsed" before resell, but I think I would scrub it good a couple of times with hot soapy water before hauling water for your horses. Do you have pallet forks?

Good luck my friend

 

[Brad_Blazer]

Why not just dig a trench and put a frost free hydrant up where you want it near the pasture. How far is it?
Horses drink a lot of water every day...I have five in a pasture and they will drain a 150 gallon stock tank in one day.

I plowed in a 650' line to my pasture with 1" 100psi coil pipe and a subsoiler with a pipe guide. This was very inexpensive and I love the convenience of a hydrant at the pasture. The pressure and flow at the pasture seems as good as at the house.

Here are the details pasted from an old post:
I borrowed my neighbor's old subsoiler, bent some 1.25" galvanized on my pipe bender, welded some extra long bolts to the pipe and made some plates to clamp it to the subsoiler.




The funnel contains Yellow77 lube to ease the pipe thru the duct.

I added the 300# of front weights to the unit.

 

[MossflowerWoods]

I plowed in a 650' line to my pasture with 1" 100psi coil pipe and a subsoiler with a pipe guide. This was very inexpensive and I love the convenience of a hydrant at the pasture. The pressure and flow at the pasture seems as good as at the house.

Brad,

That is AWESOME! I would need to go below 18" for my frost line, I'm not sure I can do that without a trencher. Even my well itself is in the middle of my loop driveway. I could not run a direct line easily.

The other issue with running a line from the house is I would have to cross my driveway more than once.

Probably in the spring I will just have another well dug (I intend to build a house up above the pastures someday).

David

 

[SandburRanch]

Ok... My horses are about a week away from moving in. I plan to have a second well put in somewhere up in the pasture or preferably the new home site area, but until then, I need a simple way to haul water up the hill to the pasture from my home.

I'd love to find a US Army surplus water buffalo trailer, but other than that, anybody got any good ideas for hauling 50 gallos or so of water up to the horses?

Also, if I surround the water trough with sand bags or dirt (like a raised pond?) will I get the benefit of it not freezing as badly? Is there a solar powered water heater to keep their water from completely freezing?

Thanks in advance!
David

This is so simple.

If this is just a temporary thing until you get a well put in up the hill have you considered leading the horses down the hill to drink and letting them carry their own damm water up the hill?

When they're finished drinking rattle a bucket of grain up on the hill and turn um loose and back up the hill they will go. Would sure be quicker and easier than screwing around with a tractor, hoses needing to be drained and hauling it.

Unless at hard work, horses in cold weather will only need water about every other day on average.

 

[colinc]

Unless at hard work, horses in cold weather will only need water about every other day on average.

ummmm.... no.....

 

[SandburRanch]

ummmm.... no.....

So the mustangs in Nevada water every day?

ummmm....no