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[NotAFarm]

We all need one of these. My FIL has one out by his barn, never froze in decades of use.
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We have two of the frost free spigots. The one at the back of the coop started getting hard to lift two winters ago when it was really cold out so I stopped using it and had the guy that dug our well and installed it 14 years earlier come out and look at it. Only needed a small part (like a gasket thingee) and now works like new. I'd have to carry water from the house if I didn't have the spigot.

 

[chickadoodles]

We have two of the frost free spigots. The one at the back of the coop started getting hard to lift two winters ago when it was really cold out so I stopped using it and had the guy that dug our well and installed it 14 years earlier come out and look at it. Only needed a small part (like a gasket thingee) and now works like new. I'd have to carry water from the house if I didn't have the spigot.View attachment 1192826

That's a really cool pic! Thanks for sharing.

 

[pennyJo1960]

snow look good and cold but beautiful to look at

 

[perchie.girl]

We all need one of these. My FIL has one out by his barn, never froze in decades of use.
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Do they make them strong enough to draw 400 feet?

 

[Latestarter]

It's not a draw issue Deb... it's pressure fed like a water hose or any other water line. Had several of them at my place in CO. They always worked and never froze even at 15-20 below zero.

SCG, since you're now (or some time soon) working with a plumber I'll save my precious font and not bother trying to explain further. Were I closer, I would come over and help you. I've helped others with plumbing (& electrical) issues before.

 

[perchie.girl]

It's not a draw issue Deb... it's pressure fed like a water hose or any other water line. Had several of them at my place in CO. They always worked and never froze even at 15-20 below zero.

Ah.... totally unfamiliar to me... I have a hose that lays on the ground that comes from the house to the horse.... Last one lasted about five years.

Got to change that for sure

 

[CapricornFarm]

Do they make them strong enough to draw 400 feet?

Depends on your pump....

 

[Bunnylady]

I have one of those in the barn. Sadly it was put in by the people we bought the house from. Nothing he did was done well.

Hmm. Sounds like a candidate for a show hubby likes to watch, "Canada's Worst Handyman."

 

[microchick]

I've been trying to play catch up here and finally just said forget it.

We have three of those hydrants on the farm. The problem we ran into with two of them was one of them decided to spring a leak. We dug down, found the problem, nothing more than a worn washer and went about trying to find one to replace it. What we discovered was that the hydrants were discontinued and there were no replacement parts available. Great. So we head to Ace Hardware and spend an hour crawling through their bins of washers till we found one close enough that we were willing to risk it. We got the leak fixed but now are afraid to use the hydrants, especially one up by the house that the I'm sorry to call him this, idiot who built the house sank in Lord knows how deep it is, concrete. So we are afraid to use it in fear that it will wind up leaking like the other one did. We have plans to replace both hydrant heads with newer ones but in the mean time, we have one working hydrant and luckily it is close to the orchard and the chicken coop.

@superchemicalgirl, You poor thing. I don't know why but you must have a big bullseye painted on you somewhere because they sure are zeroed in on you. I am betting you can do the repair yourself also. You are a pharmacist! You can do anything you set your mind to. Consider that a pep talk and a hug!

I worked outside this afternoon. All 41 degrees with a 33 degree wind chill. I could actually get a shoe on this morning as long as I laced it loose and the Standard coop needed mucked out as the feather brains managed to spill water I'd set in the coop for them this morning as nobody wanted to go out in the wind. (can't blame them, I didn't want to either)

 

[bruceha2000]

I've helped others with plumbing (& electrical) issues before.

And none of them flooded or burned

I have a hose that lays on the ground that comes from the house to the horse.... Last one lasted about five years.

That wouldn't work here a week after the water in it froze That is why those drain down spigots exist. Gotta bury the pressure water line below the frost line and can't leave any water in the vertical pipe when it shuts off.