No water or electric - How do you manage

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As title really, I was surprised by an earlier post where people were renting with no mains facilities. Electric I can understand cos you could get a gennie but water. Do you have natural water as without a pond / stream / river I cannot imagine carting water everyday. Its so heavy and you need so much of it. Why wouldn't you rent somewhere with mains was my first thought.

I had to do it until the mains services were connected but I couldn't do it indefinitely. Hats off to those that do though.
 
we fill up at home some water cotainers and drive them down to stables and for electric we use a generator. to take the containers down the fields i put them in the wheel barrow and wheel them down!
 
We have a well now and water from spring piped to the house which is free. In the south it was common to have a big water store (30 cubic metres) that caught rainwater and was filled by a tanker. A tanker of water was €50 for 8 cubic metres. Sewage goes into a septic tank or (in our case before we fixed the bathrooms) straight out onto a nearby field - yeeeeeeewwwwww!!!

Eleccy is mains but we have a genny that runs the fridge/freezer, tv and lights when the power goes out.

We are actually looking to be completely off grid next time we move and going for a composting loo
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I own a field with no water or electric around half a mile from my house. Summertime we take 45 gallons of water up there every other day (every day if it's hugely hot) for two horses, two ponies, five sheep and nine lambs. We manage without electricity, keeping our activities to the daytime. Late returns from outings are managed by the lights in the lorry and its headlights, I have just realised however, writing this, that the lorry has a generator and perhaps it would be sensible to put some wiring in . . . . . There is no stabling at the field, everything is out 24/7.

Wintertime the horses come off the field, leaving the ponies and the sheep, again out 24/7. We take the 45 gallons of water up but usually only need to go once or twice a week. Animals checked by natural light at dawn and dusk, if there are any problems we fetch lorry and take them home or use car headlights for further examination/treatment.
 
At one point, before I moved, I didn't have water or electric in the field. I had a water butt collect water from the roof of the field shelter and we had a car battery that had lights connected to it.
Although basic, we managed quite well.
 
I'm in a similar situation to jemima_too. Our horses and sheep live out 24/7 all year on our own land. We used a water cube on a trailer which we filled every week but have recently paid over a grand for mains water to be connected. At our small yard which we rent out there are lights in each stable which are powered by a car battery set up. It works well and the lights are more than adequate. Yes it's not ideal but perfectly servicable and a much cheaper alternative than paying to be connected to the mains. If you do have the funds though it's worth considering getting connected as it will add value to the land and make life easier.
 
Wow there are other people like me! I rent a 6 acre field with my four ponies on. It has neither water nor electric and is down an unsealed byway. Electric isn't a problem. Regarding water, we use those bottles from water coolers (18l I think) and fill them up at home and take down in the car. It's hard work, but in a idyllic location with really nice hacks. Plus I wouldn't want to be on a livery yard, I've done my time on those and could do without the arguments and general bitchiness.
 
Before I had electricity I used a generator but it is now so much easier. I have 6 of those big white containers in metal cages catching the rain water of the stables roof. When it is really hot I take down 6 large water carriers in the back of the car
 
Hmm, we didn't used to have electricity and used car battery power for the lights. We do have water as surrounding fields the farmer has have water and we pay him for our supply.

We did change to generator power eventually for the lights etc BUT having had the generator stolen, now let me think - 3 times I think - we resorted to getting electric as it was cheaper than having to replace generators, gate padlocks they'd cut through and fixing the hinges/padlocks or whatever the lovely thieves had been to access the gennie that was locked in the big metal container we have!!!

Funnily enough (touching wood) sicne we've had mains power we've not had any more 'visitors' in the night. Although no doubt there are some travellers camps that have benefitted from our generators!!!
 
I have no elec of water but have a mobile field stable in the field with loads of water butts attached to the guttering. When that runs out I bring containers from home. Elec wise I use a good old head torch!
 
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