Enormous fun with pipes!!!

[lilitiger2]

So, they will be shocking the well at the barn which means hauling water --good times!! I am right across the street but still, a lot of hauling.

Plumber to be helpful and he is! Wants to run polyethylene piping through a culvert under the street. But, it would be sitting in the sun all day. This will be for 7-8 days. One friend says NO don’t do it (contaminants found, many, nasty taste, okay if doesn’t see sun but not goodt sitting on lawn)

Not thrilled about hauling g water for all the boys-buckets, cleaning, food prep) but don’t want to poison them!!

I know zero about this - anyone know about this?

[Underthebridge]

Can you flush out the hot water?
I have plenty of this, some is over ground since I could never find a root,
but that area is in the shade, I never worried about it.

[csaper58]

For 7-8 days? How far are we talking? 100 ft, or 1000 ft? Do you have flat ground, rocky, will pipe go thru the pasture?

Can’t you just run a hose? You can always use the hoses around the farm later.

Do you have to buy the pipe? If you can afford that, you could use a few bales of hay to cover all the pipe exposed to the sun.

Or, use pipe large enough to run potable water tubing like PEX thru it if there is a chance horses might step on it in the pasture.

Ask plumber if PEX could be used alone without the PVC (PEX is pretty fragile). You still need to cover it with hay to protect it from the sun.

www.sharkbite.com/product-category/pex-tubing/potable-water-pex-tubing/

[Polydor]

Can you use a medium size water tank or one of the big blue barrels . Put in back of truck or vehicle, fill with water and then drive to horses and drain into water trough. Depending on how far that seems easier than hoses or pipes everywhere.

P.

[csaper58]

Tractor supply sells a DIY rain barrel kit that you can use to make hauling water in a garbage can easy, if you have a truck.

www.tractorsupply.com/know-how_stewardship_water-management_how-to-build-your-own-eco-friendly-rain-barrel

Just put the hose bibb in a clean garbage can, leave the top solid to stop splashing.

[lilitiger2]

Thank you so much!! Going about 500 feet, under a dirt road, across lawn, no trees, no shade. It does not traverse a pasture. My worry is that it will be baking all day, but definitely I can run it off. Truck has topper but I like the idea of filling up a giant container and ferrying the water over. I do have a zillion five gallon buckets w tops… sioh. Will stop in to TS and see what they have. Just hung a gate last night and was amazed at what ts had! Not looking forward to my own “watergate”!!!

[Jarpur]

Do you have bulk water delivery in your area? Here, there are business with smallish tank trucks (think septic tank clean-out size truck) that deliver potable water for a fee. Customer base is in the rural/semi-rural areas where some people have water catchment/storage systems in lieu of wells (I know a horse-owner in this situation). Depending upon the rainfall, these people sometimes must have water trucked in.

You could possible purchase a large trough or tank and have it filled up by one of these businesses.

Also, sometimes rural volunteer fire departments have smallish tanker trucks that they are willing to use to deliver water for a donation.