Water butt.

Hi All,

Wickes are selling 210l water butts with stand, lid and tap kit for £11.99 if anyone is after a new one.

Rusty

 

Thanks for heads up

 

I can't find any 210 water butts on Wickes website, only 200 litre ones for £28.49 (without stand or tap).

 

Does anyone find a water butt with a tap a bit slow.

I've only ever used water butts I can dip the watering can in from the top.
Dont think I could put up with all that waiting for the can to fill up.

I'm still using, after many years, plastic barrels that I think used to be used for shipping grape juice here from Spain or somewhere.
Must admit you dont see them offered for sale much these days.

 

I hope the Wickes near me have some left

 

Agreed one-million-percent (c) any Britain's Got Talent Judge there has ever been ...

I have the "dip-a-can" water butt lower than any others, by 6" or so. I have others that have taps, or some sort of plumbing arrangement at the bottom, of even just a siphon arrangement (but on those I have to manually start the syphon ...)

I connect hose to the tap, trail it to the dipping-water butt, up-and-over the edge and hold the end of the hose down with a rock (or one of those U-shaped exhaust water hose "tidy's" from a washing machine). When the, higher, water butt becomes full it will self-prime the hose, which will then act as a siphon keeping the water levels the same in both butts (until the siphon is broken - but it re-primes when the higher butt becomes full again).

All this because I am too mean to pay for connectors for all the tanks, particularly the IBCs (connector kit and plumbing costs more than the IBC :( ). I have one IBC under the downpipe, higher than the associates ones, and then a hose from the connector at the bottom that splits into 4 and links to the additional IBCs by the same "drape over the top" plumbing method When Tank One fills the siphon the to the other tanks starts. As water is withdrawn from the system (part of the plumbing to Tank One) the siphon works in reverse to replenish Tank One.

Luckily my house is slightly higher than the land around, so I have hose traipsed from the taps on the bottom of the (relatively small) water butts by the house into a set of IBCs, that in turn link to the dipping water butt by the greenhouse

On similar vane I am thinking about a water system for our Conservatory that we are thinking of redoing this year. What I want is a rain-water tank high up (I think we can put it on a brick pillar constructed so that the tank is in the loft, to provide enough "head") and then a decent bore pipe to irrigation taps in the conservatory. It has got to be able to fill a can at the same rate as dipping ... or to be able to deliver exactly 10L, say, at the push of a button so I can have one can filling and the other I am using for watering.

I suppose the other route is just to have a dipping tank in the conservatory with a ball valve from the header tank.

Part of my thinking of having a header tank is that I can have a low-energy pump replenish the header tank slowly, and probably over night on cheaper electricity, or when Solar Panels are active, or somesuch, and then use gravity for the faster demand of irrigation itself (including drip irrigation in the garden), rather than having a high-power pump that can provide the water pressure from an underground tank.

 

210L water butts are £22.49 in my local Wickes




I use 45 gall barrels with the tops jig sawed off and obtained for £5 each, rather like these ones on ebay

For those who prefer something larger, check out this one that's currently 99p on ebay
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Water-Sto...K_BOI_FarmingEquipment_RL&hash=item5af014e50a I wonder how easy that would be to roll back home?

 

That's the one for£11.99 in wickes by me Scrungee.

Rusty