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...get the water from the stream into my dusty, very dry night paddock to give it a good drink? I haven't the energy to keep emptying a large water butt over it and then refilling it and the stream is right next to it!

There must be some trick or invention I can 'pump' the water off the stream to just water the ground at least?!
 
quirky said:
First of all, I'd check it was legal. There are quite hefty fines attached to "diverting" water.
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It is only a tiny paddock! Like 20m x 40m:) Plus surely it's no different to me standing in the stream, filling a bucket and throwing it over? Just wanted something that wasn't going to kill me in the sun lugging buckets around.The stream is within our land...I'm not standing in someone else's property!
 
Okay, you can legally remove 20 cubic metres/ day, which is actually quite a lot, so you won't need a license.

It depends as to whether you have an electric socket close to as which pump you get :).
They don't have to be expensive < £50.
 
quirky said:
Okay, you can legally remove 20 cubic metres/ day, which is actually quite a lot, so you won't need a license.

It depends as to whether you have an electric socket close to as which pump you get :).
They don't have to be expensive < £50.
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Sadly no electric socket close by:( Had to locate it across 1 field away from the main yard with the stream in between the 2 main fields so they had some shelter!
 
You can get portable pumps from places like B&Q. They work off the car battery (lighter point in the car) I was advised of this by the police who say that oil thieves use them to drain a domestic oil tank into a tank in a vehicle. I am told that they drain the tank in approximately 5 minutes!!! Shouldn't be beyond the wit of man to put a watering rose on the end of a long pipe, switch on pump and walk about with the long pipe and Voilà!!!
 
Would this old idea we used to do work?

Get plastic tube put on ending the stream stand next to what you want to fill and suck hard!

It sound start a nice flow on water, even up hill!

Sorry if this is a numpty idea!
 
http://www.wickes.co.uk/portable-water-pump/invt/189522/?un_jtt_v_un_details_tab=tab_description

I think you would want something like that or the hand pump looks good! syphoning would be cheaper but I don't think it would work unless the water level is higher than the end you're hosing from? That's what happened when doing my fishtank anyway! Plus you would need to have a lot of sucking power to do a distance unless you somehow employed a vacuum cleaner?!

Or you could put the water butt on wheels :-)
 
blucanoo1990 said:
Would this old idea we used to do work?

Get plastic tube put on ending the stream stand next to what you want to fill and suck hard!

It sound start a nice flow on water, even up hill!

Sorry if this is a numpty idea!
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haha:D i remember watching the vet use that trick with a horse having their sinuses flushed when i was at the hospital once...unfortunately that time he didn't remove his mouth quick enough and it ended up with a lot of retching lol
 
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