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  1. Greecko

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    The garden I have has water accessibke ina neihbouring fields water drinker (we own it too) but carting the water to the beds I found today isn going to be a long term solution. I once seen in a garden centre what appeared to be a detachable water pump connected into a large blue barrel on a cart, the barrel and cart I can get but wondering what the pump was? It was similar to a back sprayer system it seems.

    Just wondering what other people use, unfortunately a hose isn't practical in this site.
     
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    and I thought I was the expert in titles that don't give you a clue what the thread is about...but, good luck!
     
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      Are you wanting a manual pump? I would have thought getting an electric one was your only practical option, depends on the distance from a power supply.
       
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      Nowhere near a power supply im afraid JWK. It was just a manual one that was detachable from a big blue barrel, was a smat looking setup. Theres plenty of cheap ones online but nothing that looks quite handy. Ill find something, anything beats carrying water by hand
       
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      Pretty sure the Edwardian Farm series has exactly what you'm looking for featured on it :)
       
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      So if I understand what you are saying, you want to pump water from a field to your garden? Or fill up a barrel and transport that to your garden?
       
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      Basically there is a bath used as a cattle drinker right beside my plot, however my problem is that I would have to carry water cans/buckets of water from there to my veg (if needed). Looking online I want a water butt pump, but a manual one. I dont have any mains. The one I seen was simply a hand level similar to a backpack sprayer.
       
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      Just a thought.
      Do you own the neighbouring field with the bath/water drinker in it ?
      Is the bath/drinker plumbed into a water supply ? Most livestock drinkers I've seen through working with horses/ keeping my own horse on a farm in the recent past are automatic refill with a ballcock to control the water level.
      If the drinker is mains supplied, and you own it/the field it is in, couldn't you fit a tap to the water supply pipe which you could then connect a hose to ?
      Or, connect a length of water pipe to the supply pipe, which you could then run closer to your veg plot and connect to a stand pipe for your hose ?
      Just a thought as I've used similar setups myself to run water to troughs/automatic drinkers for horses. Not my own land/fields though, but places I kept my horses at livery. :)
       
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