putting a tap in the field

[daisybe33]

Has anyone any ideas how i would run a tap from the water trough through the field. I have a large field I want to strip graze and don't fancy carrying water buckets that far!!

is it difficult and costly??

Thanks

 

[Cahill]

i think that you would have to dig down by the trough and put a T-junction on.then reconnect the trough and run the other end off to have a tap on.

when buying the connections check for the size,usually 20mm or 25mm.the plastic connections are easy to do and you just tighten them up by hand with no special tools.remember to put the inserts in the connectors.

 

[xena_wales]

What about intercepting the supply just before your trough, putting a T junction in, then having the tap by your water trough, and then running a hosepipe along your field to wherever you want the water bucket to be?

If you put a nozzle on the end of the hosepipe, then you can turn the tap on by the trough, walk along to the end of the hosepipe which will be where the horses are, turn the nozzle on, fill the buckets up, then shut the nozzle off, walk back to the tap by the trough, then shut that off.

I've got a vaguely similar setup except the hosepipe runs from my house to the bathtub in the field.

 

[daisybe33]

That sounds a good plan. I have atap near the trough its just that its a 12 acre field and is quite a walk to the top paddocks when I split them. I'll just have to not be so lazy!!!

 

[Toby_Zaphod]

I would imagine you would need to take the feed for the hosepipe off the pipe feeding the trough. If you connected the pipe to the trough you would only have gravity to feed the water to the water bucket on the strip grazing, there would be no pressure in the pipe at all.