How do you carry your water buckets if you've got a back issue?

[Birker2020]

This is my little trolley. Absolute life saver when you struggle to carry heavy buckets.

I bought it off Ebay thinking it was a much bigger version and was disappointed when it arrived but it wedges my buckets in just fine and the bungee cords stop them falling out the side so I've adapted it to suit my needs!

I also use it for my haynets and it can carry two medium sized soaked nets!

I used to have a green garden trug on wheels with a tub inside but used to find it had taken a walk around the stable most days!

 

[Barton Bounty]

I use a wheelbarrow water bag for the field

 

[ycbm]

I bought a very long stretchy hose. They go up to 150 feet and save a lot of water carrying if you're under the 150 ft from tap to bucket.
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[Amymay Again]

These are brilliant.

 

[Birker2020]

I bought a very long stretchy hose. They go up to 150 feet and save a lot of water carrying if you're under the 150 ft from tap to bucket.
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We were thinking of doing the same out in the paddick but our paddock is about 400ft from the tap!

So it's water carriers in the wheelbarrow for the field

 

[tda]

Hosepipe all the way

 

[Birker2020]

These are brilliant.

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My partner has mentioned this to me before but I worry about how you empty it, lifting it with my back to get it into the trug because the top of the trug would be higher than the carrier.

When I use the water carriers for the field buckets I fill them in the wheelbarrow and use the frame of the wheelbarrow so I can lean the water container over the side, so the wheelbarrow takes the strain not my back.

 

[FieldOrnaments]

Ibuprofen and pig headed determination

 

[Follysmum]

Due to my back issues I have to get hubby to do mine if they need carrying .
We do have extra long hoses connected up so I can fill water tubs

 

[scats]

I have a wooden trolley that I use to lug Millie and Meg’s waters from the hose. Polly has one of those green garden trolleys coz she can be trusted not to try and wear it (unlike Millie)

 

[Lauraback]

I bought 2 really long hoses and connected them not cheap but saved the back from further damage

 

[Midlifecrisis]

Nuromol painkillers and I move slower than I used to lol.

 

[meleeka]

Another vote for a hosepipe. I don't carry water anywhere since I had my mains water installed. The longest one is around 100m I think, with a couple of joins in it. It just lives on the fence line and is connected when needed.

 

[Birker2020]

Nuromol painkillers and I move slower than I used to lol.

Yeah I'm on 17 tablets a day, a mix of cocodamol, gabapentin and ibuprofen! But I still can't manage carrying water buckets because the weight causes me pain in my feet and back lol

Waiting for my S.I to be medicated

 

[Barton Bounty]

This is the easiest thing other than carrying buckets

 

[Spiritedly]

I used to use a h2go bag but now have a new tap installed close enough to the fields that I can reach everything with a long hose.

 

[Errin Paddywack]

We were thinking of doing the same out in the paddick but our paddock is about 400ft from the tap!

So it's water carriers in the wheelbarrow for the field

It is even further than that to get water to where we need it. Multiple hosepipes joined together work well until something punctures the hose or pulls it apart and then we have to go searching for the leak. Ours is downhill and across rough land so would be too back breaking to do it by trolley especially when sheep are in there and we are using a lot of water.

 

[pistolpete]

I had a massive wheel barrow I could keep clean and fill with water. Also long hose! Carrying water is a pain. Breaking the surface tension can help stopping it spilling.

 

[Highmileagecob]

Any chance of installing piping along the fence line and connect to a tap? Or better still, dig it in properly?

 

[rabatsa]

Hosepipe on a cart like this https://www.tools4saleuk.co.uk/prod...TEbtXaR6BOUzAFag8Y2M_-noznbUgFQeZxKM23w&gQT=1

 

[Red-1]

I had multiple hosepipes until I had a contractor here to dig out the ditches. Turns out that putting a blue water pipe in wasn't much effort for him at all whilst all the eqipment was here. Now we have water to the fields, no leaky hosepipes.

 

[9tails]

My field trough has a tap and a hose.

For my stable water, I buy two trugs at once and slot one inside the other. Then I drag it with a rope around the handles across the concrete to the stable. The bottom trug wears out over time but the inner trug is protected. When the handles break, I buy two more trugs and start the process all over again.

 

[4Hoofed]

Lots of hoses. We can connect a hose to every paddock. I have a bad shoulder. YO was pregnant, and then had a bad pack. In our experience 50% of liveries will not bother with filling field waters if there isn’t a clear hose system.

 

[Nasicus]

Couple of reeeeally long hosepipes joined together at strategic spots so we could separate the hose to fill up water troughs along the way and then re-join it, with the hose ending at the furthest away trough. About 200m.