mobile water trough

DirtyDiesels

looking for a tank and water trough with 3 point linkage. Thinking of using an IBC tank with a drinker attached and a ballcock setup. Might use bale lifters for moving around. Any ideas or anyone seen anything like this anywhere.

tomieen jones

DirtyDiesels wrote: »

looking for a tank and water trough with 3 point linkage. Thinking of using an IBC tank with a drinker attached and a ballcock setup. Might use bale lifters for moving around. Any ideas or anyone seen anything like this anywhere.

Seen plenty on donedeal but with wheels! Wheels for a good reason as securing a live load of water could be dangerous on a loader

Nekarsulm

Be fine for sheep. Cattle would roll it round the field for sport when it is empty. Could you get an old tanker or trailer chassis and either get a 1000 gallon tank or five IBCs mounted on it.

onyerbikepat

Funny you should say that, I'm making up one at the moment. I have a metal frame I got from a factory, only problem is it is 1.0x1.0m and IBC's are 1.0x1.2m. I have to weld on an extra bit. I'm using it for water pumped from a river and I will leave the trough loose on the ground nearby, not attached to the frame.
It will be behind an electric fence too, so cattle can't get at it.

Farmer Pudsey

An IBC full of water will weigh over 1000kgs. That is heavier than a round bale so not every tractor will lift it. Have seen some of the trailers made to carry them some are flimsey enough. As well pulling over 1000kgs in a field or down a boreen could be an issue with such a trailer. It is possible to get adapters to reduce the outlet down to 1/2 or 3/4'' but they are not cheap. However they are still the most viable way to put a tempory drinker in a field. an electric fence or a few gates around the IBC will prevent cattle moving it however it will need to be above level of water trough so all water will flow into trough.

You may well have to modify IBC frame so that arms of bale handler will lift it and that it will be secure on bale handler. Another option is to buy a cheap trailer that will carry 1-2 IBC that you can use to drew the water into the field with. If you check of DD you will find trailers that may be bough for 200ish euro that may do the job.

Nekarsulm

There is a black screw on cap designed to seal the outlet on IBCS. Get one of these and drill the centre to take a normal 3/4 brass fitting, like what you would find for the overflow pipe on your plastic attic water tank.

onyerbikepat

I bought one of the fittings for the IBC recently.
The label reads as follow;

S60X6 SWIVEL FEMALE BUTTRESS
X 3/4"BSP FEMALE

I got a reducer then to bring it down to 1/2" BSP Female the then screwed a 1/2" BSP Male to 1/2" Hydrodare fitting into that. So a total of 3 fittings.

The IBC fitting and reducer came to €22.

So the thread on the IBC is Male 60x6 Buttress.

onyerbikepat

Sorry OP, kinda hijacking your thread......but anyone know if it ok to stack these IBCs on top of each other, 2 high, when both are full of water?

DirtyDiesels

great info - lifting is not an issue. tractor is 125HP. great food for thought for the weekend. thanks

rangler1

onyerbikepat wrote: »

Funny you should say that, I'm making up one at the moment. I have a metal frame I got from a factory, only problem is it is 1.0x1.0m and IBC's are 1.0x1.2m. I have to weld on an extra bit. I'm using it for water pumped from a river and I will leave the trough loose on the ground nearby, not attached to the frame.
It will be behind an electric fence too, so cattle can't get at it.

Any problem with dirt in the ballcock or how do you filter it

onyerbikepat

I haven't it set up yet. Plan to do it at the weekend. I have a solid plastic bucket that will fit snugly into the opening at the top of the IBC so plan to drill holes in that and filter it there with filter material.

lakill Farm

I set up one bay of scaffold, 2 tanks and a T fitting linked to the drinker

the tanks are about 4ft off the ground so good drop of 3ft to the ballcock in the drinker. Scaffold is fenced away from the cattle.

Markcheese

You'd need a good concrete trough on a pallet too - or every time the water runs low in the drinker the cattle will have it feiced around the field -

visatorro

rangler1 wrote:

Any problem with dirt in the ballcock or how do you filter it

we used to fill the sprayer from the river with a submersible pump, just used to cable tie a milk filter to the outlet pipe filling the sprayer, found it worked well.
on the mobile trough, iv a genius of an engineer round these parts who reckoned two ibcs in the back of a builders trailer filling a jfc plastic trough would go nowhere, he reckoned they wouldn't tumble the thing that feeds them. I couldn't believe how a highly paid, highly educated person could be so naive!!