The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Smallholding => Techniques and skills => Topic started by: johnmac on April 20, 2009, 04:56:57 pm
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Hi all,
My other half ison the look out for a cheap water butt that can be hooked up to a drain pipe for providing rainwater for her horse...... any suggestions???
I'm sure i'd seen a link on here from someone for a cheap one, but can't find it!!
Cheers,
John. ;)
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get hold of one of the blue 45 gallon plastic drums off a farmer. Most will sell them for £5 if they don't give it to you . Easy to either put a tap in or an overflow into a water trough .
cheers
Russ
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oooooorrrr if you want serious water storage for animal drinking storage and you dont want it to go yukky, buy a black 1000l ibc which is a large plastic container held in a metal framework, has different types of taps on the bottom and large filler on top. they must be properly cleaned before use and its a good idea if you can find out whats been in it. you can mount this in a trailer or pallets or on the floor. weve just bought one from ebay and collected it myself to save hi postage cost. £50.00 for black ones that are as good as new. this will solve problem of no permanent water trough in cattle field..............these have lots of applications for the smallholder....................neil
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110379781329QQssPageNameZMERC_VIC_RCRX_Pr4_PcY_BIN_Stores_IT&refitem=180339188452&itemcount=4&refwidgetloc=closed_view_item&usedrule1=CrossSell_LogicX&refwidgettype=cross_promot_widget&_trksid=p284.m183&_trkparms=algo%3DCRX%26its%3DS%252BI%252BSS%26itu%3DISS%252BUCI%252BSI%26otn%3D4
i got a couple of these off ebay stuck one in each of my greenhouses, they will supply them with taps too - but it's easy enough to drill a hole in them and connect up your own plumbing
think they hold 220 litres - which isn't too shabby
i'm getting a new shed built and i plan to get a few more of these to collect the rain water which i can then use to water teh raised beds