home made waterer

[Intheswamp]

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In regards to bleeding the air off I'm thinking of installing two cheap faucets/valves at the end of the pvc pipe...one will be mounted on an short "upright" coming out of a tee and the other one mounted directly to the end of the pvc run pointing down. The one pointing up to bleed air off, the one poiniting down to drain the system. A small valve coming out of the bucket might not be a bad idea, either, to cut the water off from the network while working on it.

FWIW,
Ed

 

[Country Living Farm]

O, sorry.... All I do is take a 1/2 ball valve with the 1/2 inch threaded ends. Then I buy (1) 1/2 female plastic end that has a 3/8 barb on the other side. Then you find the connector to go from your hose to the ball valve. After putting telphon tape on the connectors screw them into the ball valve. Then screw your hose into the appropriate side of the ball valve and turn the hose on. Open or close the ball valve and then slowly open or close it depending on which way you started. The water will begin to come out of the barb. which is how you are regulating the water pressure coming out of the ball valve. It does not need to come out very fast as once it is all hooked up and you bleed your PVC pipes, the pressure is just fine. I open my ball valve just a tad faster then a trickle where if kind of runs out. Once set up, you can push on your nipples to test the pressure and adjus it from there. Then put your 3/8 water line on the valve and run that to your line. If you are wondering, I use a 1/2 PVC pipe for my lines. On one end, you put a 1/2 PUSH ON PVC fitting with the 3/8 barb coming out of it. That is where you plug your water line into. On the other end, I put a PVC end cap that I can unscrew to drain the pipe to either clean, flush or drain in the winter so the pipe does not break. Also, one you have that set up, you can put all the "T" 3/8 fitting in the water line you want and run water to everything else. I have one ball valve and I am running water to 6 coops, rabbits and ducks if needed.

I hope all this makes sense

also by doing this, you do not need to bleed the line at all. Another perk is if you go on vacation and you can not get someone to go to your house everyday to feed and water, your stock will always have water no matter what.....Now they might get hungry if the feeders run out before for a day but I have not heard of something dying from a lack of food for one day but water is another story..

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