How do you fill/carry water buckets?

[noblesteed]

You need a big trug and a small clean bucket. Big trug is what horse drinks from, I half fill it, carry that to stable while smaller normal size bucket fills, then carry that to stable and tip into big trug. Easy.

I used to be at a yard where they had a big barrel full of water under the tap, with a clean bucket tied to it. You used the clean bucket to tip water into your own buckets. Saved having to stand by the tap filling buckets and also less spillage or overflowing! Last person at night had to fill up barrel ready for next day. Worked a treat.

 

[Shysmum]

This is what I'm talking about - a bit more expensive here than Oz, surely you can get them cheaper ? But they last forever ;

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Greena-40...854?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3f1e39569e

We actually thought about importing them when we got home..

 

[Madam Min]

Not very well according to our yard owners OH as a couple of winters ago all our water pipes had frozen so we had to fill up buckets from these big bowser things, well I tried my best but YO OH thought it was funny watching me struggle and said he didn't think I was cut out for carrying water buckets as he was sure my legs would snap!

 

[Achinghips]

I put a big flexi trug in one of these and tske it to the tap and back

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-GARDE...denEquipment_HandTools_SM&hash=item2c65359ec3


lol - now I've read the thread properly, see others use this too! Tescos sell them in summer

 

[Mongoose11]

That is very kind of you. She has been a little tricky, had her 3 months now, dreadful harvest mites, fixed now, scabby knee's/hocks improved but not good. Needs rhino housing and combination locks to keep her in stable, she can figure out how to open anything ! Schooling coming along but canter left is still missing. Cubbing put on hold because she just is not balanced enough and I don't want to break her.

Plus points - kind, genuine, willing, smart to look at as long as she is clipped every other day !, fab in traffic and as bombproof as a horse can reasonably be expected to be aged 6......and my confidence is flooding back.

Sounds like she is doing her job perfectly in that case. She is going to be worth a fortune when she gets out there and settles down. She is stunning.

Mine still has an issue with left canter - well a true balanced canter all together. We have mostly spent our time motorbiking round corners. I am taking the opportunity, while I am trying to lose some weight for both of our benefit, to have my instructor bring her on - dressage diva is our aim!

Here's to us and our lovely tanks

 

[RutlandH2O]

The H2GO wheelbarrow water holder is brilliant. I have 3. BUTTTTT, don't let them freeze. The reason I have 3 is because the first 2 cracked and leaked. I've taped the cracks and can have one filling while I transport another to the pole barn. It is very heavy, but the wheelbarrow, if it is balanced, has a good tyre, and moves easily, is key to success with the H2GO. They are quite inexpensive. I think I paid no more than £8.00 for each one.

 

[Batgirl]

This is what I'm talking about - a bit more expensive here than Oz, surely you can get them cheaper ? But they last forever ;

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Greena-40...854?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3f1e39569e

We actually thought about importing them when we got home..

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Greena-40...tem3f1e39569e&clk_rvr_id=406592281640&afsrc=1

I used to use these (have a water feeder now), can get them from B&Q and a lot of garden centres, about £10 I put the trug in it so it is easy to clean and wheel away, dead easy, no lifting or dragging.

 

[supagran]

Use 2 large buckets instead and carry them.

I use these:

http://www.robinsonsequestrian.com/stable-yard/feedroom/buckets-mangers/jumbo-feed-water-bucket.html

My daughter has these, and when helping her out I lifted one which was only three-quarters full, went to tip it out and tore a muscle in my back. Don't get me wrong they are great buckets, but just too wide to carry if you are only 5ft 4in!!!!

 

[Dirty_D]

^^^^this^^^^^^
(for the ones who arent on automatics!)

 

[angel7]

I cant believe how little your horses seem to drink!!!

My 15.3 cob mare easily drank a 3/4 full black dustbin every day while on box rest. Her bed was always so wet but no wonder!!! Couldn't drag the thing and got a hose instead.
Even my 12.2 used to drink a black standard bucket full overnight.
They were on adlib hay and would demolish salt licks and sticky treats though, must have made them thirsty!

 

[Littlelegs]

Hosepipe for stables. Fields automatic troughs. Anything else, I half fill two then tip one into the other.
Billy-my 14.2 drinks 1&1/2 large tub trugs overnight, & always has drank those quantities.

 

[kerrieberry2]

i fill then half way and then take a water carried full at the same time and use that to fill the flexi to the top!

or hope that it rains loads, which helps keep it full haha

 

[Paint Me Proud]

i am another 'fill and drag' girl. I fill at the tap then just drag it into my stable. Sometimes if my tubtrug is still half full I just top it up with a normal bucket

 

[RobinHood]

I tip half down my wellies, swear loudly, attempt to drag bucket, then bucket catches on a lip of concrete, splosh remaining half a bucket over my face and down my front!

 

[WelshD]

I use smaller buckets and take them to the trug in the stable

I top up over the door using a watering can, pony likes to drink from it as its pouring too lol

 

[Christsam]

Im going to get one of thse wheelbarrow water carriers. I use the flexi tubs and half fill one then use the other to top up and then half fill the other and get a bucket. The other day i picked up to carry and handle snapped.....freezing cold water all down my legs

 

[Christsam]

In fact that reminded me to order an H20 to go so all done now. No more wet legs

 

[Suelin]

I would use a hosepipe. I don't lift or carry anything I don't have to.

 

[LaurenBay]

Fill and drag. Sometimes only fill it half way or so and use a normal bucket to top up. She doesn't drink much though so usually just fill it half way and leave it at that. She has soaked hay so I guess she gets enough water from that.

For the field we have a hose, all you need to do is put the attachement on the tap and voila. The hose is out all year round too, so no need to put away or untangle etc. We also take turns in doing it, so usually do it once a week.

 

[POLLDARK]

I use a husband

 

[Enfys]

Hose pipes all the way. No way am I carrying or dragging anything if there is an easier way to do it.

I also have 10 litre water cans in the pump room in the stables for topping up, and the small animals.

I have about 300' of pipe which reaches every water butt on the place which isn't on auto fill. As I have to drain and store the pipe as soon as it has been used, I have this, which I love

https://www.xhose.ca/

They aren't exactly designed for the amount of use they get and I have no illusions about them lasting very long, but when I can pick up 300' of piping in one hand who gives a monkeys If they survive a winter then I will be a happy teddy.

 

[stencilface]

Wow Emfys, that hose looks great, wonder if you can get it over here?

 

[Oriel]

I use a hose to fill water buckets in the boxes and have automatic water troughs in the fields

 

[Tinsel Town]

When I worked at the RS we had lots of long hoses that we used to drag about for field waters and yard waters, the field ones had a whole host of connecting hoses.
Now for Leo's stable I use the tap that's right outside his stable and drag the bucket in the field waters are automatic filling

 

[Grinchmass]

I try to persuade my partner to do it

Failing that, struggle with a large canister, I fill it as heavy as I can carry.

The former is definetly my favourite option

 

[ponypilotmum]

small clean bucket which fills the trugs. Have water bowsers in the fields so field trugs get filled from those.

 

[phantomhorse]

I fill mine then drag to the stable and into position. That said, I'm not far from the water tap and the distance covered is over level concrete. I'd probably do things differently if things were different. Actually, thinking about it, when the taps frozen in winter and we have to get water from across the yard from an inside barn, I use my giant wheelbarrow and just half fill my trug (so I can lift it out of the barrow) and a couple of small black buckets to top up. They all fit into the bottom of the big barrow and I hardly ever spill much en route. Mind you, the barrow isn't cheap! (http://www.farmandcountrysupplies.c...smallholding-farm-tools-sundries-wheelbarrows)

 

[pansy]

I'm the same as Robinhood
I tip half down my wellies, swear loudly, attempt to drag bucket, then bucket catches on a lip of concrete, splosh remaining half a bucket over my face and down my front!

At least I'm not the only one !!!
We do have a hose should use it more often

 

[Star_Chaser]

bucket in each hand, do the john wayne and hope there is still some in them when I get there

 

[PandorasJar]

I leave the trug/big bucket where I want it (sometimes half fill and carry over) then use normal buckets to fill. Always carry two as easier than one and being lopsided. This usually gets them mostly full if carrying trug over half full!