Nifty Way To Water Trees

Nifty Way To Water Trees FARM HOME Miscellaneous Like many FARM SHOW readers LaVern Peterson likes to make old equipment useful for new purposes So when he needed to water newly planted blue spruce trees he and his brother and his brother’s two sons transformed a 300-gal sprayer into a portable watering tank They removed all the spraying equipment and connected a flexible hose to the tank’s drain and ran it out through a hinged piece of 1 1/2-in galvanized-pipe Peterson purchased a 10-in long hydraulic cylinder that runs off the tractor’s hydraulics It is mounted vertically with a cable attached to the end of the piston that runs up over a pulley to the hinged pipe “I stop at every tree and let the pipe down to water; it’s gravity flow It doesn’t take long to get out 10 gal It shuts off when you raise it up ” Peterson explains “We can water about 30 trees at a time A 3-in trash pump in a nearby lake is used to refill the tank It only takes a couple minutes ” he adds Peterson pulls the waterer with a small Deere utility tractor “It’s a simple outfit but it works so well ” he says Despite dry summers his trees are doing well and he plans to make another one for a relative Contact: FARM SHOW Followup LaVern Peterson 312 27th St N W Watertown S Dak 57201 ph 605 886-3247

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