OMG!! The dust is awful! Going on 6 weeks of very little rain. We have had a couple of tenths in the last 2 weeks. Looking to make a tank to haul on the back of the tractor. Any ideas? Mostly for the spout to spray the arena
We installed 5 sprinklers on both sides of our arena (on the fence) and then have 5 that we drag to the middle and water in "zones" 1-5. Cheap and easy to install, and it really isnt too big of a pain to pull the middle ones to one side to ride.
We only water 2 times per week for 1.5 hours total and it keeps the dust down completely. All of our sprinklers are homeade out of PVC.
kboltwkreations - 2015-09-28 8:25 AM We installed 5 sprinklers on both sides of our arena (on the fence) and then have 5 that we drag to the middle and water in "zones" 1-5. Cheap and easy to install, and it really isnt too big of a pain to pull the middle ones to one side to ride. We only water 2 times per week for 1.5 hours total and it keeps the dust down completely. All of our sprinklers are homeade out of PVC.
My brother in law puts a big portable water tank in the back of his pickup and fills it (as full as the pickup you're using can handle). Then he has a homemade PVC pipe attachment he made that fits onto the valve. Basically a piece of PVC with caps on both ends with holes drilled along the bottom of the length of the pipe. He flips the water tank valve open and drives up and down the arena while it "drains". Then goes back through with a digger.
My brother in law puts a big portable water tank in the back of his pickup and fills it (as full as the pickup you're using can handle). Then he has a homemade PVC pipe attachment he made that fits onto the valve. Basically a piece of PVC with caps on both ends with holes drilled along the bottom of the length of the pipe. He flips the water tank valve open and drives up and down the arena while it "drains". Then goes back through with a digger.
Thank you. That's what I have been brainstorming. I don't have a fenced arena. Just a dirt spot to ride in. But the dust is unbearable right now
I'll see if I can find a picture of it. It works pretty slick! He's got a good sized tank that fits perfect in the back of the pickup. Fairly easy to manhandle when its empty. His indoor is 70 or 80 by 200 and usually does about two tanks and that lasts him 4-5 months. Granted his is indoors vs. your outdoor. He puts the hose in the tank and works a horse, by the time he's done its about ready to dump. does a round, then fills while he rides another horse.
I've seen a lot of different things made into water wagons. Old manure tanks, old lp/andhyrous tanks, etc.
One thought I had would be to find an old smaller farm sprayer and rig-up a gravity flow system on it.
If you could find something like in the picture below you could make a gravity flow system pretty cheap for it. I found this one on Craigslist for $250 bucks
Thanks for the suggestion about the sprayer guys. I have been trying to google but new I wasn't searching the right words. Yes a pull behind sprayer would work great. I'll start checking the farm auctions.
I put a tank in the back of our old farm truck and use a water pump to fill it out of the pond. Pretty white trash looking but it works and the water tank itself was only about a hundred dollars.
Homemade arena waters?? Please share!
