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Post by Jenna on Dec 15, 2015 21:11:47 GMT
I am currently collecting water by putting a bucket under every drip in my stables and lean to /tack room and even off the roof of my horse box! My stables are due to have a a new roof soon (have the materials just not the man power -yet!) I'll be setting up guttering to collect rainwater off the roof. How is this best done? I have one of them 1000l water containers with a metal container on but I was thinking of getting a few more and joining them all up. Just trying to do a bit of research as to how to do it all. I want to ensure I never run out! I want to somehow connect a hose to one which will run into the horses field (but doubt there will be enough water pressure to push the water through - how do I overcome this?
Any tips welcome and I would love to see pics!
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Post by waspblue on Dec 15, 2015 21:55:15 GMT
My livery yard collects rainwater and it is amazing just how much water we can collect in just one day or night of rain. We use blue barrels with guttering strategically placed and a series of the 1000 litre square containers in the metal frames. The horses love it too. It saves an absolute fortune too. Makes you wonder how much the water companies lose and waste....
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Post by Toaster on Dec 18, 2015 22:29:21 GMT
blue barrels are easier to keep clean
I have blue barrels and a 1000l tank
The big tank gets dirty easily and is hard to maneuver to clean out, I use this when there is a lot of rain as the water is a lot clearer, there is about 3 months of the year when the water is not suitable for use (summer) as the roof of the stables gets dry and dusty and the rain when it does fall makes the container grubby, I have to wait until the particles in the water sink and then can use it (the tap is higher than the very bottom of the container) but generally in the summer I dont risk the water and use it for cleaning buckets etc preferring to bring fresh water from home in little drums. the 1000l container is black which I think helps, there is no algae inside like you get with white tanks
The blue barrels are great, they can be emptied and scrubbed out much more easily, obviously they don hold as much water though
The large tank I have has a hose attachment but its only 50cm or so above the ground and the pressure isnt enough. A fiend has one that she uses to bathe her ponies and I estimate this is raised by about 6 feet, the pipe travels about 100ft or so to the horse area and the pressure works ok
even with two blue barrels and one 1000l container I still run out of water every now and again
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Post by 19simeon56 on Dec 23, 2015 19:40:42 GMT
I have an IBC tank sat on pallets and bought off ebay a cap to fit which has a hosepipe fitting on it,it's not fast but if you have enough drop (adjusted with pallets)you could attach a hosepipe to it and leave it to fill your field water trough.If you had someone handy,drill a hole near the top of each container and use a length of 1"- 2" water pipe
to join each container together (using food grade silicone so the holes don't leak) so that the first tank overflows into the second then into the third etc.Your biggest problem would be freezing weather,you would need to remember to empty your hosepipe after you have filled your buckets etc and would need hot water to thaw the outlet in really bad weather (voice of experience!).I also have an old bath which one of my gutters is directed into then I can fill buckets up from that.
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Post by gillwales on Dec 23, 2015 20:41:56 GMT
see if you can get hold of old baths and connect them into your rain collection system. The advantage to them is if you need to clean it out you merely have to pull the plug
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