Anyone have an IBC tote? We have one that was given to us (they're about $450-600, depending).
I can't find the pictures I took. Dang. Anyway. Ours has about 200 gallons of water in it, by the uphill heavy soil garden. Yay!
It has an opening near the bottom, and I hold a pail underneath and use the pail to fill up the bucket to carry to garden to dipper out water to the plants. This is an improvement over hauling water up the hill from the house. It's too far to run a hose.
You'd think there would be a fitting to attach to a hose fitting to use a hose, right?



Hubby ordered one such thing, and it's slightly too small. I took the cover cap that came with the cube and the fitting to a hardware store. Or 3.
First one suggested getting into the cube

and cutting a new hole at the bottom and installing a fitting. The opening in the top of the cube for filling it might be big enough to drop a newborn through.
Second one actually knew what I meant. But out of 3? 6? rows of plumbing fittings, they didn't have anything the right size. The right size, according to my caliper, is 2.48 or 2.46 (probably some wear on the male threads by now) and the thread pitch is .09.
According to some info someone gave me, that's a 2" Camlock male with either 2" BSP or 2 1/8" BSP thread. Nope, they didn't have anything like that, but maybe Grainger might.
Yeah, I confounded them too.
So hubby is going to order "the other fitting that was bigger" and we'll see if it works.
If anyone has any words of experience to offer... Really, I did not think this was going to be so difficult!
Big container of liquid. Liquid must come out in a controlled fashion, and it must go somewhere other than pouring onto the ground. What's the problem?