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Livestock Water Bowsers
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 11:11 am
by Rhamil24
Can anyone recommend a company selling Dexter-proof livestock water bowsers? I need to be able to get fresh water to my stock and am considering a bowser v's laying a permanent supply to several troughs.
Hope someone might be able to guide me on where I can research the price of a robust trailer mounted bowser towable with a quad. Thanks very much.
Roddy Hamilton
Re: Livestock Water Bowsers
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 12:11 pm
by Rob R
If you own all the land in a single block or have a long term tenancy it'll be worth laying a pipe as it'll cost similar to a decent new water bowser, and then there's the cost of your time and fuel moving it and filling. Plus it'll add value to the land.
We use 2 x IBC containers mounted on a chasis for outlying land though. We usually have two groups of animals that need a bowser & three bowsers on the go so that we can take a full one when we go to collect the empty.
There's one on
ebay at the moment, for £1.
Re: Livestock Water Bowsers
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 9:54 am
by Rhamil24
Thanks Rob - good advice and I agree that a permanent solution will be better. I'll go with that.
Roddy
Re: Livestock Water Bowsers
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 12:02 pm
by Tim Watson
Don't lose sight of what the quad can actually pull and do so safely.
We have a Honda 420 and its towing limit is 386Kg (thats the weight of the trailer plus the load it is carrying.
If the tank on the trailer is part full the free surface effect in the tank will affect the handling of the quad and trailer and the load through the transmission and engine.
I think that IBC's sizes range from 500 to 1000 litres and fresh water is 1Kg/litre.
There are stats for the amount of water Dexters drink
http://www.dextercattleforsale.co.uk/ph ... ing#p24483 which may help you to figure out how much you need per day.
Re: Livestock Water Bowsers
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 1:30 pm
by Rhamil24
Another good point - very many thanks. We have decided to go for a piped supply to field troughs instead.
Roddy
Re: Livestock Water Bowsers
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 3:37 pm
by Rob R
It was one of the first things we did when we got our own land, and a decision we've never regretted. We hired a digger for a week and dug holes every 50-100m or where there was a trough, mole ploughing the pipe into the clay and it took about 2 days to do 600m including stopcocks, but not tanks.
Re: Livestock Water Bowsers
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 1:52 pm
by Malkin Dexters