Automatic Livestock Water - How To Setup the Little Giant Automatic Waterer for Cows, Horses etc
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- Learn how to setup an automatic waterer for livestock in todays video.
Our cows watering setup was taking too long to fill up the tanks, and was wasting our time ( and water) so today I decided to setup an automatic watering setup.
In this video we used
Little Giant Automatic Waterer - amzn.to/2MpBtkz
Rubbermaid Livestock Tank - amzn.to/2N52bAa
Hot Water Hose - amzn.to/2IxCZyS]
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I thought the rain drops were simulated giant's tears from a sprinkler. That was funny.
Sorry we are having fun and enjoying you and your family ...while you are working so hard. I do miss your little homestead...so picturesque...I feel overwhelmed for you as this homestead seems so large....yet...appreciate how you are going step by step ..taking control ...being thoughtfully wise in your decisions. Will continue to watch your progress. We are living vicariously with you young, energetic, strong family values, folk. Stay encouraged. Stand firm..have peace. Is.26:3.
If your tank isn't level, put the float valve on the low end of the trough and it won't run over.
We leave ours on all the time and have minnows to help keep the bugs down
We use it and we love it. We have a very small tank, barely deep enough for the float valve. We leave it on, and neither the cows nor the goats have ever messed with it. We use a small tank so it has to refill more often, and more fresh water comes through the hose, rather than it just sitting in a tank.
I absolutely love our little giant!!
This was revenge on all those ads, which take personal intelligence for granted. I hate all those cleaning ads, before promoting their wonderful new product, they'll have the actor wrestling with a mop and bucket, like they'd never seen one before. "Grrr, why doens't this mop and bucket work", when they're just shaking it in their hands like a Neanderthal. I felt you captured that same vibe, by wrestling the hose and wrapping it around your neck, lol. But I knew you taking the Mickey, so it was funny. ;)
Made my day, thanks!
Another good idea, to help guard against burning up your pump or pumping your well dry, is to install a Low Pressure Cut-Off Water Pressure Switch. When it detects low water pressure in your well (as in it's almost pumped dry), the switch will turn the pump's power supply off until you arrive and manually reset it.
Thats a cool little device
This was a great way to showcase this product! I loved it!!
Very funny! Thanks for the laugh! Great videoing
It was a lot of fun, I loved it ! It was unique !
Hey, the little giant wants to have dinner. Maybe he can help you with some chores around the farm. No need for tractors hauling trees away. lol Cool video.
that was cute
Thanks Austin. In the Army we call this "Idiot Resistant". We got a kick out of your presentation. :)
Filled by the tears of Litlle Giant 😂😂🤣🤣😭😭😜
This was so well done!! Thank you for the laughs. You have quite a fun imagination!
Love the fun tutorial! Seems like a great item to have on the homestead! Thanks!
Clever! Very good video!!
Very nice 👍
Wow! This is really cool. When I get to move to my dream homestead I will be getting one! :)
Always enjoy your videos. Thanks so much for sharing! Very entertaining as well :)
Great! I didn't know about that product. Lots better than a toilet valve.👍🏻
COME ON, THEY BEEN AT FEED MILLS FOR OVER 50 YEARS even display in a tank, not that brand though, same as the live stock water bowls you bolt to the wall of the barn, they come in cast steel and ABS, i have some of both
i have use 6 of those valves in 6 tanks for 30 years, 1st dont use the 2 screw clamps to hold the valve on, the cows pull it out of place, drill the holes in the brackets out to 1/4" smd drill thought the tank and install 2 - 1/4" stainless steel bolts an lock nuts, dont use a garden hose to feed it as the hose gets kinked an no water comes out, buy a 300' roll of 1/2" pex pipe, put a 90 deg elbow in the pipe at the valve, install a pex fitting to 1/2 NPT THEN A GARDEN HOSE adapter, plumb the pex pipe into a copper pex manifold were you connect all your aoto waters to, install a pex shut off valve in the pex line near the manifold if you didnt buy the copper pex manifold with built in valves, pex pipe is by far cheaper then any garden hose, like 28$ CND per 100 feet, the sun or freezing will not damage it, you can drive over it and not hurt it, you can berry it under ground like i did, you could use black poly pipe but it cost more, i leave the water on all the time, as normally your pump presser switch should be one with a 10Lb safety shot off style, so what that means is if your water presser drops to 10Lbs or less the whole system shuts off until you manually restart the presser switch, never a danger of burning out your pump is well went dry, i never have a problem with my well ever going dry, even running 2- 1" lines open all night and day, check t see if your presser switch has this built in safety, if it has, there will be a silver leaver on the left side of the presser switch, thats what you use to re-start your pump, you pull the leaver up just a little until your water presser gauge reads 20 PSI AND LET THE LEAVER GO if you dont have a leaver on yours, replace it with the right one. NOTE. pex pipe when you un-roll it will be like a snake, leave it in the warm sun for an hour and it will get soft and you can make it lay flat and make all the nice bends you neeed. for long runs to many places you need water i ran 1" pex out and tee off with 1/2" pex to auto waters, and ran 1" pex to each barn, from the main presser tank, i built a big stanless steel 1" manifold in my root cellar were my presser tank is next to my well, with has all 1" ball valves for each feed, the field auto water lines as well as all pen lines are feed with ether 1/2 or 3/4" pex, do not cheap out on water line size or you will loss flow when really needed, do it right the first time, doing a half ass set up will just cost you much more later, and half the time that half ass set up cost more in the first place, oh you dont need to run out and buy $150 water tanks an old bath tub works great and they are free and look much better and is not so high that cows can push it over, one more thing, set your tanks 1/3rd under the eletric fence so your cows, horses goats, sheep have 2/3rds of the tank to drink so they dont just hang around the water tank and leave there mess all over the ground around the tank, they dont feel comfortable staying that close to the wire, they drink and leave, same way they retch under the wire to get that little bit of sweet grass just bast the wire, carefully, they leave. i put a loop of eletric wire around the float, so they dont play with it
Maybe put a timer valve on it and set it to fill for 15 to 20 minutes 4 times a day? This way if there is a malfunction the water won’t run all day and drain your well. Just do periodic inspections.
OK you had me rolling on the floor laughing!
love the editing. Great video!
problem is editing has nothing to do with good contet, or when it comes to how to, and good information, over editing distracts many
great video!
what a goof! lol But you are creative
Nice video. They will contact you soon for a commercial for them any day now...
Such a jokester!
We had hose burst because the summer heat softened the rubber so much. The water pressure in the hose caused a bubble in the hose, and that burst when we weren't home.
Love it👍👍😂😂😂😂 sounds like batman!!!
Enjoyed this
I leave my lines on 24/7 same type you have and they have been working great for 7 years. When my Black Angus cows come in to drink they can empty a 100gal tank in about 4 minutes that is why I leave my lines on
OMG, wow! How many cows, a hundred?
thats right and much faster when you have 2 or 3 at it, never leave the water off, that is the worst thing to do, leave live stock with no water on hot days, turns out to dead live stock before long, very bad advice very BAD, LETS TURN THE WATER OFF TO HIS HOME
Well, that wasn’t friendly at all!! He’s one of the good guys, and he is sure to keep a good eye on everyone in the pasture. #letsbekind #iamhomesteady
It was great
As we say in our family... it was a once funny. I wouldn't want to see one like this every week... but maybe when you are doing a similar install of another simple fun thing. It's nice you are being creating and trying new techniques. It certainly keeps it interesting.
Too funny!
Awesome
That "How to..." video was pretty cute! Lol! 😁 Love your videos anyway, so that was an added bonus! ✌🇨🇱
Thumbs up🤣🤣 very creative 😅😂
You should put the edge of the bucket next to a fence so they can't step on the hose. We live ours. It's on 24/7.
that was awesome
Austin, that was well done and very entertaining! You should absolutely send the Little Giant Pump manufacture a link. I bet they might want to use it.
All the horse boarding facilities i pasture boarded at had tanks with floats. They would have to build a tamper proof housing for the float because some horses are busy bodies and like to mess with the floots. Usually it was made of boards wrapped with hardware cloth to discourage the chewing. They also stocked the tanks with mosquito fish or goldfish to keep the mosquitoes from breeding. They hardly ever cleaned out the tanks, they looked gross, but the horses all drank out of them fine. I now have my horses on my homestead. I don't use a float because I want to know how much my horses are drinking. I have the same Rubbermaid tank as you for my two horses. I let it empty then fill it every 3 days or so. Mosquitoes don't have enough time to breed in the interval and algae grows but doesn't get too gross.
P.S. I just stick the hose into the tank and do some weeding or manure handling while it fills up. Yes, I have forgotten and had it overflow more than once!
"They hardly ever cleaned out the tanks, they looked gross, but the horses all drank out of them fine. "
Well, what else were the poor horses supposed to drink?
I hate selfish people who don't clean out their animals' food or water containers -- I'd like to see THEM eat/drink out of something so dirty and see how they like it! 😠
thants trure, but think of all the muddy ponds, creeks, mud puddles they all drink out of even when there water is 20 feet away, it is like something is in that water they need
Yeah, they need the WATER! 🙄
It is very rare that an animal will choose to drink from a stagnant pond when they have the choice of clean, clear running water.
Cute video that ya'll made there, it made laugh and it looked like you were talking to God or something, good to know that there a product for water your animals easier. Can't wait to see what's next on the homestead.
Amazing hack ..
If you keep it close to the fence the hose could be protected.
Thank you for the laugh, very enjoyable video. Keep them coming.
LMBO!!!!!
Hilarious! I have one tiny problem with it and it’s only because I live with an English major librarian lol but I noticed you kept saying trot and it’s actually trough (troff). That’s it, I know it’s a little thing and some people don’t care to know but I would want to be told 🤷♀️ It was a hilarious video though!
I didn't hear him misspeaking, he was properly saying "trough" the whole time afaik.
Edit: OMG you're right, he's totally saying "troth" the whole time! I've never heard that before, is it a local or family custom? (My family tends to say "boughten" as a past tense of "bought", for example: "Yeah, I've boughten clothes from that new store once or twice...")
tyrroo I wasn’t sure at first but at the end of the video you can see him say it with a “th”. It’s whatever, just thought he might want to know
I heard it several times too. It was troth especially at 5:18. I figured it was simply a Connecticut thing...
no it is the American slang, same how they say furff instead of roof and a million other words and spelling
My pony would break it by playing with it, the thoroughbred could be scared of it and the colt would kill it. I'd be scrubbing algae and yuck of it and the water troughs every two to three days. Also I would not know if any of them where not drinking or drinking to much. Never had cows so maybe great for them. Would be nice not to do water troughs every two days or so. Love the video it's great!!!
That was funny😁
I can't believe you did that--leaving that hose sticking up from that valve isn't something I'd have thought you'd do. The animals aren't likely to worry much if the step on the hose. You need to put a couple of 90-degree ells and some PVC to run the line down to go under the trough before you attach the hose, so they the connection will be protected from hooves of whatever animal are using the trough. The flexible hose can take the hooves, for a while, but having that hose sticking up will not likely last so long.
used them before. Need to put a cage around it. bored cows play with them and break them, even if water is off. Sometimes breaking the plastic tank. Thought the info would helpl.
LOL!! Awesome!
Why does Lil Giant kind of sound like Batman?
He's not the pitchman we need, but he is the pitchman we deserve
You should put that against a fence so no animal can get tangle with the house and rip it out!
Is there a way to buy thru you on the app?
Was that rain? I thought it was Little Giant’s tears.
What are you going to do for water in winter?
i have auto water bowls in the barn, the live stock keep it above freezing even at -40, if your barn is to big put up divider wall to cut down the space needed so they keep it warm, plumb with pex pipe so when they go out in the day and it freezes it will not brake lines, and it opens once everyone is in again
Haha funny as 🤣👍🏻 question though... when the float valve seals the hose, won’t the water pressure just keep holding it open? I know the water pressure from our tanks is pretty high... 🤔🤔🤔
the floats are big, and rated for 100 psi, if your higher then that install a presser control valve in line or turn your pump presser down to normal cut in psi of 40psi and cut out at 60psi, higher presser can damage the plumbing in the home
Arnold Romppai
Thankyou :) it’ll prob work fine then :) just didn’t think the float could seal it THAT tight. Very cool 👍🏻
Cheisea oh it seals it tight as it gets old you need to replace the seal, as it drys out after 15 years, be sure to add pipe sealer w/ Teflon to the fittings, works better then the tape
Creepy sky voice is sad lol
gigglez
I have found they
I have found they work best when tub and valve are up against a fence or wall so livestock do not disturb the valve and hose.
Put some goldfish in there.
No, gross! Goldfish DON'T keep the water clean, all they do is crap in it and make it dirty for the livestock!