i need help

[Dorothea]

what is the name of the pump like the hand pump where it stops at the check value? and do you need electric for these pumps? i cant be hauling water hoses all next winter

[Snowfan]

I'm not sure I understand the question.

[Dorothea]

it looks like a hand pump from back in the days but they have a new one that you can use for livestock if i understand it doesn't need power cause it drops to the check value but i can no clue what the pump is called and if it has to have power or not

[Gravytrain]

Frost Free hydrant?



The water running into it needs to be pressurized...either from a pump or gravity.

[light rain]

Is it called a frost free yard hydrant?

[Dorothea]

yes thats it gravy train can you explain how this works please

[light rain]

Or stand pipe?

[Dorothea]

we have a well right by the horses water but ran a temp power then winter hit so it froze up our pump we never replaced it so i have been using a water hose and putting it back in the well house about a 100 yards away i cant keeping doing this
its the picture gravytrain posted that i am thinking of

[Allen W]

The frost free hydrant has to be connected to a pressurized water source to work. The shut off part is at the bottom of the hydrant and will drain the upright pipe when shut off.

[Dorothea]

Originally Posted by Allen W

The frost free hydrant has to be connected to a pressurized water source to work. The shut off part is at the bottom of the hydrant and will drain the upright pipe when shut off.

so i need electric to this?

[unregistered41671]

No.....

[coolrunnin]

But you will need to run the supply line and the bottom of the frost free below your areas frost line to function properly.

[Forcast]

Had to baby sit the neighbors animals this week and thats what they have but it was frozen, so I wound up hooking up a hose to the washer hook up. It was 21 last night so here that set up will freeze. Do you need to heat tape them?

You would have to bury a water line from your working well or repair the pump that froze & bury a water line from it to get a frost free hydrant to work . Depending on how deep your well near the horses is you might be able to mount a hand pump on top of the well casing . Sounds like the pump that froze isn't a submersible pump ?

[Dorothea]

okay thank you so much

[Allen W]

Originally Posted by Forcast

Had to baby sit the neighbors animals this week and thats what they have but it was frozen, so I wound up hooking up a hose to the washer hook up. It was 21 last night so here that set up will freeze. Do you need to heat tape them?

Usually a little hot water poured over the pipe will get them thawed.

[Dorothea]

we had a well house right in the pasture we are only about 22 feet deep but like i said the pump froze up and we took the electric out,,but at this point my body can not be pulling a 100 yards of water hose we have to put in back to the water house< this one is for our house

[Allen W]

The simplest solution would be to bury a water line from your house well to where you wanted the hydrant.

[Jan in CO]

What Alan said is what we have in Colorado. We trenched five feet deep and buried lines out to where we wanted hydrants in different places on our property. Still don't have one close enough to the inside of our goat barn, and have to carry buckets from the closest hydrant to the inside buckets for the goats. That is going to have to change, as I'm too old to do this, too! I don't think you could trench deep enough this late in the year if your ground is frozen like ours is. I can sure sympathize with your situation, tho!

[Gravytrain]

In northern Wisconsin your frost depth is about 4'...make sure your hydrant supply line is buried at least that deep.