You gotta have a plan. water pic

JayinNY · Feb 3, 2010

Water line to the barn froze on Saturday, so I had to have a plan to fill the horses water tank. This is what I came up with. A 55 gallon drum on my pallet forks. Works great. But not as easy as the hose box in the barn.

James Howell · Feb 3, 2010

This was our plan to haul water to the hay meadow for the sprayer.

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Works pretty good.

And yes we're an equal opportunity tractor employer; that's our Ford 2810.

One day we might get around to painting it yellow and green.

Nancy Howell · Feb 3, 2010

Looks good to me. It worked and wasn"t a major problem. I am often amazed at how ingenious we can be.

Nancy Howell · Feb 3, 2010

That's my 48A which belonged to my dad and the Ford belonged to James' dad. They are probably our most dependable tractors.

JayinNY · Feb 3, 2010

James and Nancy, Id love to have something like that for my Ford 1720 w/loader, much eaiser.

bodid1998 · Feb 3, 2010

James if you paint that tractor yellow and green it would double the value !!! Just kiddin love the Fords too!!

Dustin IL

bodid1998 · Feb 3, 2010

Jay is it not amazing how much a horse can drink ??? Also I have not figured out why they call them hayburners, should be water guzzlers !!!

Dustin IL

Nancy Howell · Feb 3, 2010

Those tanks hold 300 gallons and are easy to find down here. We pd. $60 for that one. It had food grade nataphos (sp?) in it so we knew it would be ok for hauling water for the tank sprayer.

The hose we picked up at Tractor supply for just a few $$.

Unfortunately, we can only fill it up to about 120 gallons. That's all the loader on the Ford can handle.

ChrisinMO · Feb 3, 2010

I see you've got to keep some blue paint around for when you really need to get the job done! ;>)

Christopher

Anonymous-0 · Feb 4, 2010

Sure beats my 4- 5gallon water cans :roll: But they are handy. Those 1000 liter tank pallets are nice. I just got 3 with the idea of building an insulated box around them at the 3 outside shelters to cover the few weeks of freeze we get.

Dave

dieselpup · Feb 4, 2010

Smart plan. Frozen pipes bring about new inventions in a big hurry.

I have a hydrant that is frozen so I've been running garden hose to the water trough. Instead of unhooking and draining four hoses every evening I fashioned a pressure regulator to the air compressor and just blow the line out. Seems to work ok.

LeoinMI · Feb 4, 2010

Nice set up for water,saves on the back too. My dad and I used to thaw out water pipes for farmers with our portable generator arc welder. We would hook one lead to the pipe by the pump and the other lead to a water outlet in the barn and open the outlet up. Fire up the welder and watch for steam. Once the steam appeared we knew it was hot enough to thaw out the pipe. You then shut off the welder and wait a few seconds for the water to flow. We had over 100 foot of cable to reach from the well pit to the barns. Worked great. Of course now days people have plastic water lines,so it would not work.I still have the welder and ocassionally get a call for frozen pipes from those that still have the old style galvenized water lines.

greenbeanman in Kansas · Feb 4, 2010

Pallet tanks can often be found on Craiglook or Craigslist.

I bought two this fall that had never had chemicals in them but instead had toted glass beads that are used to reflectorize highway paint stripes.

I had only planned to buy one but couldn't pass up the second that still had about 40 pounds up beads in it. Have a couple of signs I want to make reflective so was willing to pay for the additional tank to get the beads. Think I will haul small quantities of liquid fertilizer in it so will keep it.

Mike (WA) · Feb 4, 2010

There was a story in the paper a few years ago about a couple of guys who were doing that in Seattle- charged 50 bucks. Someone saw how little time it took, and objected to the price. The one guy yells to the other, "Hey, Joe- the guy don't want to pay. Reverse the polarity!"

The guy quickly agreed to pay.

LeoinMI · Feb 4, 2010

My dad ,God rest his soul,usually charged nothing or a six pack of beer. It depended how thirsty he was at the time. He was that type of guy,liked his beer.

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