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Water pipe installation

  • 08-02-2013 11:47am
    #1
    Cran
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭


    All looking for some information on water pipe installation.

    Where I live is an outfarm which used to be used mainly for tillage and used to be an old water supply to the fields that was turned off and is beyond replair now. What to put new pipes and troughs in, whats the best way to do this and anyone recommend anyone in the South East that does good reliable work?


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  • #2
    MfMan
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    As a start, would put in concrete troughs, (ones with bungs in the bottom allowing you to drain them in winter in case front cracks them). Also, would put in piping around by walls / headlands to avoid rooting them up if you ever plough the land.


  • #3
    yellow50HX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,828 ✭✭✭yellow50HX


    get hold of a digger with a narrow bucket for a few days and dig a trench good an deep for the piping to stop it getting caught by a plough.


  • #4
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    How many meters of piping?

    How many cattle on average per drinker? This will determine what bore pipeing you need.

    Last year we laid 1500 meters of inch piping and backfilled it in a day over land. 13 ton machine. Cost €400+ vat for machine.

    As Mfman said concrete drinkers are the way to go!


  • #5
    td5man
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    yellow50HX wrote: »
    get hold of a digger with a narrow bucket for a few days and dig a trench good an deep for the piping to stop it getting caught by a plough.
    Put them deep enough, shored a field a couple of years ago and the farmer decided to moleplough it when i was finished. He forgot that there was a waterpipe running the length of the field and cut it every couple of metres with the mole plough.


  • #6
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Cran wrote: »
    All looking for some information on water pipe installation.

    Where I live is an outfarm which used to be used mainly for tillage and used to be an old water supply to the fields that was turned off and is beyond replair now. What to put new pipes and troughs in, whats the best way to do this and anyone recommend anyone in the South East that does good reliable work?

    this is a system some one told me they had used before, look at this website www.moleploughing.ie, i think the guy is based in sligo, but maybe somebody beside you might have similar system, looks easy if it works and I think they charge about 1 euro a meter and u supply the piping


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  • #7
    farawaygrass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,998 ✭✭✭farawaygrass


    why are ye in favour of concrete troughs over plastic ones? only thing i'd say is pup down an inch pipe or bigger, only way to fill troughs quickly


  • #8
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,756 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Use one size pipe and fitting everywhere, eg 3/4 inch if you have good supply or inch if it's for milking cows or poor water pressure.

    What's the budget and is it for dairy or drystock?

    Remember to keep all the invoices too for vat.

    .

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #9
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    I wanted to get water to a few fields on a budget so i just pulled a pipe and stuck a plastic drinker on it with a shut off valve. when you move the cattle just shut off drinker empty it and drag it to the next field or paddock. a bit of hassle but got me out of a hobble. just remeber wherre the pipe is lying when your topping.


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