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SVcummins

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I think I have finally figured out a way to water my stock without having to roll up 350 feet of garden hose every time I made an adapter that I can hook up my diesel air compressor to blow the hose out
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I left it hooked up for about 5 minutes and made sure all the water was out I think it?s going to work
 
made one years ago to blow out underground sprinklers throw small compressor in loader bucket and run around from hydrant to hydrant when air gets low just run back to shop plug it in till its full
 
That will not blow all the water out. The air will move water so the air can move thru then the remaining water will flow back to a low place and freeze. So after blowing the air thru pick up the hose as you move along till you get to the end and the remaining water will run out the end. BTDT
 
I don't remember how many feet of water line you'll have strung out there, but gene bender has a good point. Any moisture that remains on the hose lining will find its way to a low point and, if enough water builds up at any one point, you will be unable to water again until it thaws.

Maybe you could blow the hose out to start with, then connect the nearest end to a wet/dry vac and let that suck any remaining water for 15 minutes or so? ...Or maybe come back after 15 or 30 minutes and blow it out again, once any remaining water has puddled??
 
Kansas, I will have to look for one of those! Never seen one.

I deal with cattle and gravity feed cisterns and waterers and so forget, and need to blow out pipe and hoses a lot. That is a lot simpler that the stuff I screw together to adapt......

Paul
 
Cool, my menards expanded a year ago, and likely has it - or will over summer - now. They started out a small/ medium size building but had enough traffic to move all the lumber and garden to new quarters and turn those areas into more retail stuff. I've noticed a lot notpre of that type stuff available now.

Paul
 
Can you run the hose up over a roof or build a bridge of some kind to run it up over? 350ft is a long ways but I put a pvc line from one end of my 100ft shed to the other up to the peak and back down. Lines drains out each end via gravity
 
I don't think you'll ever get all the water out of 350 feet of hose to keep it from freezing. I hope it works for you, keep us up dated.
 
I did sorta the same thing.

Ran it up over the door on my old barn, along the hay mow, dropped down and around to the cow shed to the water tank.

Just got about a 10ft hose that hooks up to the pvc at one end that I have to drain.

Works good.

Fred
 
I tried that one or two winters,and it don't work.I blew it out with the air compressor every time and water would always freeze somewhere.I only had about 100',mostly downhill,and on the coldest nights-below 25*,it would freeze.Good luck,Mark
 
I used to roll up hoses etc and finally an old neigbour said to leave the water running at about the flow the size of a pencil, the moving water won't freeze and the cattle will keep the trough drank down if you start with the trough down.
 
IF the hose is all uniform size (maybe, but not likely), there are little foam balls you can put in the line before blowing the air in. That should help push more of the water out. Experiment with one length at a time. Works well with pipes. One power plant I visited in GA uses a system like that in the cooling water tubes of their condenser- the cleaning action of the foam balls picked up five megawatts of productivity in the first weekend of use. Our local irrigation shop sells them for irrigation-sized pipes.
 
I made basically the same thing only with a valve on it. Use it to blow out hose reels before putting in an non heated building and seems to work pretty good. I was mainly wanting to blow it out to get rid of some weight
 
Had some friends that did what you are wanting to do. They had 300 feet of 5/8" hose, I made them up an adapter and they used a 20 gallon electric compressor. It worked okay and we did have a lot of below freezing days that winter. This was in North Carolina though.

Garry
 
I?ve thought Of that but at over 600$ it?s not feasible
what I really need to do is bury a real water line
 
My experience is water will still freeze in low spots. We used to blow out sprinkler systems with a 185 cmf compressor and still fixed several leaks every spring.
 
Dad taught me to "walk the water out" of the hose over 60 years ago. Just unhook the hose from the hydrant, lift the end up over your head, and slowly walk along under the whole length of the hose. Gravity moves all the water out of the hose. Never had one freeze up yet that had been "walked out".
 
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