Green keepers

[cowman]

Now I'm not real sure of the name of the valve but will check it out. Just a cheap plastic thing we picked up at UFA...seems to me it was about $20. Tank is a 500 gal. black poly and valve screws on to the side. Added a couple of extra set screws.

[grassfarmer]

Holy crap that's a big trough cowman, does one trough water 4 fields(ie at the corner)Assuming you use 1 inch line off your regular water supply I would have used a lot smaller trough. We use 40 gallon Tuff brand troughs mounted on a wooden sledge(can't weld)with a hudson valve. We find that works fine for 120 pairs especially if they are in a 2 acre paddock - cows come and go all day drinking rather than trailing to water as a bunch Hudson valves are very trouble free and cow proof. Only problem we have had is when a mouse got in the pipeline over winter and the fur blocked the filter. A screw on valve at $20 sounds more like these kind that you run off a low pressure garden hose.

[grassfarmer]

Oops!! there was a typo there - we use a 140 gallon tank.
One day a year I hate my pasture pipeline - the day I turn it on. Spent the afternoon today repairing leaks in one section of buried pipe. Every spring we get this trouble which I think stems from one roll of bad pipe. We usually get about 4 bursts a year. It must burst on freeze up because once you get the system up to pressure and no leaks it runs fine all season. I would never shallow bury pipe again -far prefer it on the surface.