"Lowest Maintenance Waterer On Market"

"Lowest Maintenance Waterer On Market" LIVESTOCK Hogs (33) 21-5-12 Soon after Marshall Dutter put up a new 160-sow gestation barn a few years ago, he started having problems with the metal floats in the facility's waterers. "They corroded too easily and weren't built heavy enough in the first place," says the Flora, Ind., farmer. He designed and built a user-friendly plastic watering system that outlasts conventional metal systems and re-quires little maintenance because it requires no electricity or special plumbing and has no external moving parts. The Water Monitor consists of a plastic float mechanism housed inside a 4 1/2-ft. length of 4-in. dia. PVC pipe. It bolts onto a corner of a stall with two U-bolts and connects to any ordinary 3/4-in. dia. garden hose, which runs in at the top. Water level adjustments are made with a plastic bolt on top. "You set the water level and forget it," Dutter says. "We've had units running for two and a half years and have spent virtually nothing on repairs or maintenance." Sells for $102 plus S&H. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, M&R Dutter Farms Inc., 838 W. State Rd. 18, Flora, Ind. 46929 (ph 219 967-3118; fax 3139).

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