Simple Water Wagon Built From Old Parts

Simple Water Wagon Built From Old Parts WAGONS/TRAILERS Miscellaneous 27-4-18 It took awhile, but Gary Toomey, Lake City, Michigan, finally got fed up with carrying water, two buckets at a time, to three horses he and wife Judy own. Those three horses are pastured across the road from the farmstead, away from the water lines. "I had a plastic 50-gal. drum that wasn't being used," Toomey says. "And there was an old two-wheeled trailer sitting in the weeds when we moved onto the place." He put the barrel and trailer together and added some plumbing parts to make a perfect wagon for hauling water. Once he had the barrel in place on the trailer, Toomey made a fill pipe on top by inserting a short length of pipe with a cap. On front of the barrel at the bottom, he drilled a hole and inserted a pipe nipple. This he threaded into a length of 1/2-in. galvanized pipe, with a sillcock on each end of it. He also plumbed a couple of PVC elbows at the bottom and top of the front of the barrel and attached a length of clear aquarium hose he bought at a pet store to make a sight glass, so they can tell at a glance when the water is running low. "I put two sillcocks on the wagon, so I could attach one to the float in the trough with a hose and still be able to fill up a bucket if I needed to," he says. The Toomey's pull the water wagon with an 18 hp garden tractor. "Those old steel wheels make a lot of noise but they save us a lot of time and trouble." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Gary and Judy Toomey, 1060 South Nine Mile Road, Lake City, Mich. 49651 (ph 231 328-4985; email: trillium_hill_farm @hotmail.com).

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