Field with no water - solutions please folks!

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I have the possibility (fingers crossed) of a couple of acres for summer, close to where I work so ideal and gives my land a much needed rest - lots of natural shelter and bridlepaths just no running water.

Now there is a river running through the place just not in this field, so I could fill water carriers there except I then have to get them up a vertical bank....

So any other solutions folks?! Im looking for a 2nd hand bowser but no luck so far :(
 
Bowsers are expensive, i spotted mine abandoned in a hedge so asked the farmer, paid £100 and luckily it was decent. What about those square containers that fit in a pick up?
 
I have one of the big square containers which is rigged up to the stable guttering.

In the summer I end up taking extra water up in 25litre containers (I got mine from a gym where they originally contained chlorine but a really good rinse out made them ok to use) I fill these in situ in the back of the car then decant in to dustbins placed around my field. I then bucket water out of the dustbins as needed. I fill them all on a weekend (takes about 40 mins) and they last all week
 
Ive got an IBC at current field but the horses arent keen on drinking out of it :(

Also theres no guttering or anything to attach it to so Id have to keep going to other field and filling it I spose. Hmm at this rate I can see it being water carrier and tub trugs!
 
What about putting a water trough at the top of the bank and using a water pump with a long hose to pump water from the stream to the trough?
 
We bought a pump last year so we could use the well to fill the troughs, one of those to an old bath or trough? You must be able to get them to run off a car somehow?
 
You can get pumps for water butts that run off a normal handheld drill. Could that ne an option for getting water from the river?

We have one of those heavy duty tyre pull along carts that does a good job of moving tub trugs of water
 
Collect rainwater but this will go stagnant in hot weather also if collected off ie onduline roofing it will get bits of moss etc in it(& like a grit). Galvanised roof no probs(I got some old plastic loft water tanks £5 each). Previously I used a field with running water and even in winter it was solid so I still ended up transporting water.

Currently no tap water either so when the rain water is gone its back to:
25 litres containers and got them off ebay about £5 each and clean. I have quad bike but before that I did take a container at a time in wheelbarrow it was such hard work. Someone suggested a bowser and ebay is good option. Those wheelbarrow plastic bags are 80litres with a pour tap at the end that is an option & quite a tub full of water. I hope its not on a hill?

I would look at pump to take some river water if that is allowed? Water what hard work.
 
I don't know if it would work due to the nature of a steep bank and running water, but if you leave a hosepipe in a water trough and detach the other end from the tap then it will drain back through the hosepipe and all but empty trough. So in the same way could you just pop a piece of hose in the stream (if deep enough) and stick the other end in a bucket/ empty trough, or would that not work/ take ages? Clever people? :)
 
wouldn't work Becca, water empties from the trough as the hose on the floor is lower than the water level, water won't travel up the bank into the trough;)

those water carriers are brilliant Amymay, have 1 myself which i used for the whole time i was on the farm livery with no water supply.
 
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