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livinonlove&horses Reg. Jun 2008	Posted 2015-09-27 2:55 PM Subject: Homemade arena waters?? Please share!
Ms. Poutability Posts: 2362 Location: In my own world	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
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hammer_time Reg. Jul 2007	Posted 2015-09-27 4:13 PM Subject: RE: Homemade arena waters?? Please share!
Money Eating Baggage Owner Posts: 9586 Location: Phoenix	We would just drag a horse to the arena and turn on the sprinkler! Rotate/move as needed.
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livinonlove&horses Reg. Jun 2008	Posted 2015-09-27 4:25 PM Subject: RE: Homemade arena waters?? Please share!
Ms. Poutability Posts: 2362 Location: In my own world	hammer_time - 2015-09-27 4:13 PM We would just drag a horse to the arena and turn on the sprinkler! Rotate/move as needed. Omg that would take forever!!
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kboltwkreations Reg. Mar 2011	Posted 2015-09-28 8:25 AM Subject: RE: Homemade arena waters?? Please share!
Elite Veteran Posts: 1037	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.
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Barnmom Reg. May 2006	Posted 2015-09-28 8:40 AM Subject: RE: Homemade arena waters?? Please share!
Hog Tie My Mojo Posts: 4847 Location: Opelousas, LA	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. Any pictures? Awesome idea BTW!
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shakeit0410 Reg. Jun 2012	Posted 2015-09-28 11:37 AM Subject: RE: Homemade arena waters?? Please share!
Extreme Veteran Posts: 310 Location: North Dakota	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.
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livinonlove&horses Reg. Jun 2008	Posted 2015-09-28 12:54 PM Subject: RE: Homemade arena waters?? Please share!
Ms. Poutability Posts: 2362 Location: In my own world	shakeit0410 - 2015-09-28 11:37 AM 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
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shakeit0410 Reg. Jun 2012	Posted 2015-09-28 1:55 PM Subject: RE: Homemade arena waters?? Please share!
Extreme Veteran Posts: 310 Location: North Dakota	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.
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TwistedK Reg. May 2006	Posted 2015-09-28 2:06 PM Subject: RE: Homemade arena waters?? Please share!
Bulls Eye Posts: 6443 Location: Oklahoma	Look at arenawerks.com may get an idea
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Jeff Vorhies Reg. Jan 2005	Posted 2015-09-28 2:32 PM Subject: RE: Homemade arena waters?? Please share!
Expert Posts: 1567 Location: Fairfield, IA	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 Edited by Jeff Vorhies 2015-09-28 2:34 PM (00P0P_90fbLhA8ZPu_600x450.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 00P0P_90fbLhA8ZPu_600x450.jpg (42KB - 179 downloads)
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Red Raider Reg. Jul 2010	Posted 2015-09-28 2:44 PM Subject: RE: Homemade arena waters?? Please share!
Toastest with the Mostest Posts: 5712 Location: That part of Texas	If you do a Google search or Youtube search for "Home Made Boom (or Boomless) Sprayer" you'll get some pretty good ideas of what can be rigged up. Here's a link to one of the better ones -- using 55 gallon drum with less than $100 invested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxzmf9MrveI Edited by Red Raider 2015-09-28 2:48 PM
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livinonlove&horses Reg. Jun 2008	Posted 2015-09-28 8:57 PM Subject: RE: Homemade arena waters?? Please share!
Ms. Poutability Posts: 2362 Location: In my own world	TwistedK - 2015-09-28 2:06 PM Look at arenawerks.com may get an idea I will! Thanks!
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livinonlove&horses Reg. Jun 2008	Posted 2015-09-28 8:59 PM Subject: RE: Homemade arena waters?? Please share!
Ms. Poutability Posts: 2362 Location: In my own world	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.
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Runninonthebuck Reg. Jan 2008	Posted 2015-09-28 9:20 PM Subject: RE: Homemade arena waters?? Please share!
Elite Veteran Posts: 876 Location: Wisconsin	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.
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