Hot water hack….anyone?

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Does anyone have any good ideas for having hot water on the yard?
I am desperate to give my boys a bath but obviously because of the cold, I’m not going to use the hose.

Looking for good tips to have hot/water to bath them with without costing the earth!
 

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Mines similar to this. I think it was a bit more expensive but less than £150. Go for the higher lpm. Mines 16 and thats fine, I have good water presssure, not sure if that makes a difference but I can easily blast off muddy legs/dogs and fill buckets of hot water.
 
I just fill two large flasks with boiling water and add to a bucket with a cap of dettol and baby oil. Add a bit of cold water so I can submerge hands in it and hot cloth. He's snow white on his non-black bits and this gets him gleaming. I focus on his clipped bits and base of mane. Any left over water is used on the tail, which I keep quite short in winter. I'm afraid I pretend the bottom of the legs don't exist unless farrier is due (he lives out, so bathing would be a waste of time for me). Feathers are trimmed off at this time of year and I disinfect once weekly at the mo and treat with hoof paste.

I've also just discovered the joys of the Snuggy Hoods lightweight liner. It keeps the outer rug mostly clean (doesn't cover neck) and the other day it was washed and dried in one evening on the radiator.
 
I've not tried this, so treat with caution, but I'm do know someone who put coils of pipes through the hot bit of the muck heap so that when the water was connected it heated up as it ran through the heap. as the heap cooled it was chucked back and fresh put on top of the pipes. Seemed to work for them, but I thought it was a bit of a faff.
 
Fransurrey said:
I just fill two large flasks with boiling water and add to a bucket with a cap of dettol and baby oil. Add a bit of cold water so I can submerge hands in it and hot cloth. He's snow white on his non-black bits and this gets him gleaming. I focus on his clipped bits and base of mane. Any left over water is used on the tail, which I keep quite short in winter. I'm afraid I pretend the bottom of the legs don't exist unless farrier is due (he lives out, so bathing would be a waste of time for me). Feathers are trimmed off at this time of year and I disinfect once weekly at the mo and treat with hoof paste.

I've also just discovered the joys of the Snuggy Hoods lightweight liner. It keeps the outer rug mostly clean (doesn't cover neck) and the other day it was washed and dried in one evening on the radiator.
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Agree, that's a fact. Horses don't have legs every day in winter!
 
This was my method with a grey in winter where only hot water really gets the stains out. But this is assuming you have access to a kettle!

One kettle of boiling water mixed with cold to do the shampooing with a sponge. One bucket is usually enough per horse.

Then make at least two buckets of warm water from the kettle. Not all boiling obviously!

Then use a camping shower, I had this sort of thing plugged in to the car but you can get rechargeable ones now. https://amzn.eu/d/fwSgfqj

It was a faff and you have to be organised but when no other options it does the trick! Then get them rugged up with a couple of layers of coolers, you can take the wettest layers off as they dry.
 
I fill my big mud daddy at home with the hottest water I can get out of the shower. It's wrapped in insulation like a water tank and it stays warm to hot all day! Sometimes I bring additional thermoses of boiling water to make a new batch for a second horse (or a white one that needs a second scrub!). One mud daddy, carefully used, can fully wash down one post-hunt mud splattered horse or competition prep one horse.
 
Abacus said:
I just fill two big containers (50l) at home from the hot tap. Wrap each in a thermatex and they stay hot for ages, even warm after a days hunting. And the rug is then warm to pop on.
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Yep same here.

And second the recommendation of Snuggy Hoods and their liners. Great for keeping clean without over rugging.
 
Another for a caravan style boiler, £100ish, think mine is 16l and is just attached to a gas bottle to power. Stick the end of the hose onto it, turn hose on and near enough instant hot water. Game changer for washing, I use it all year round as all my guys seem to prefer warm baths even in summer.
 
immersion heater in a big bucket of water, and one of those camping showers that you just put in the bucket? you will need electric to plug the immersion heater in.
 
I have some 15l water bags, I fill them with hot tap water and created insulated jackets for them out of the silver bubble wrap you get for insulation.

They stay too warm so I top up with cold then use a ryobi one cordless jet wash on the non-power setting. It is loud but you get a good spray from it.
 
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