For folks that have to lug water.

[MonkeyGrinder]

Just something I figured I'd share if you're watering from a creek, river, or lake nearby etc.
If you know someone that works in some sort of eatery. Ask them if they can get you one or more of the containers that the fryer oil comes in. They're usually 5 gallon square containers. Made of the same material plastic milk jugs are made of. They're probably twice as thick so they're durable. They have an opening on the top for pouring that's maybe 2 inches around (be sure to get the screw top lids with it)
The cool thing about them are the handles. Unlike buckets that tend to jerk around while you walk due to the way the handles are. These things have a short plastic handle that's actually a part of the top.
I find them much easier to carry anyways. The weight is centered up on the container itself. Not the little metal or plastic handle that it's attached to.

 

[Mattemil]

This is why I have a small battery pump and several hundred feet of hose!

 

[Rizzo00]

When you say battery pump....do you mean car battery???? Or what? And how loud is it? Oh and how much did you pay for it?

 

[SenorBrownWater]

i know about gro bot solar pumps...
also tubs that kitty litter comes in for lugging water..

 

[doubletake]

What's the best ways to lug water
or what's some cheap pumps that you can run tube with
or some high end ins if anyone knows?
Im kinda worried about watering that'd be awesome to have a pump pumping the water right near the patch
i was just going to fill up a backpack and put 6 gallon jugs in a back pack and probley have to do two trips to water the patch of 15
so 12 gallons for 15 plans. Would be much easier to just pump the water.

 

[drolove]

lol man im gonna have quite the year ahead of me. probably be ripped from lugging all the water im gonna have to carry.
30 plants in 20 gallon pots. probably use around 3 gallons a week. thats 90 gallons of water ill have to carry out!!

 

[doubletake]

lol man im gonna have quite the year ahead of me. probably be ripped from lugging all the water im gonna have to carry.
30 plants in 20 gallon pots. probably use around 3 gallons a week. thats 90 gallons of water ill have to carry out!!

Yeah man that's gamma be just about impossible you should either get a partner or just do like 20 ha also if you stick me in the ground they will not dry out as quick.

 

[getawaymountain]

we put out tarps in the bush this time of year to catch all the spring rain and have a few at each spot , ya can't carry enough water when they use 5 gallons twice a week each !! a bucket to each one every 3 days .i work everyday from 3 am till noon on plants 7 days a week lol.....also i leap frog water for miles in the bush when needed from one tarp to another .also use solar panels and car batteries at each spot

 

[sonar]

Just something I figured I'd share if you're watering from a creek, river, or lake nearby etc.
If you know someone that works in some sort of eatery. Ask them if they can get you one or more of the containers that the fryer oil comes in. They're usually 5 gallon square containers. Made of the same material plastic milk jugs are made of. They're probably twice as thick so they're durable. They have an opening on the top for pouring that's maybe 2 inches around (be sure to get the screw top lids with it)
The cool thing about them are the handles. Unlike buckets that tend to jerk around while you walk due to the way the handles are. These things have a short plastic handle that's actually a part of the top.
I find them much easier to carry anyways. The weight is centered up on the container itself. Not the little metal or plastic handle that it's attached to.

They work great. I was able to find either 2.5 or 3 gallon ones, I forget. Nice I can fit one in my bag and carry the other one in hand.

I'd like to get away from lugging water. Think I am going to try a new method this year. Maybe some kind of reservoir. Even if I still have to haul, I'd rather do it early on when it is cool rather than in July when it's 90 degree out!

 

[james42]

I dug a 8 foot deep well hole. It fills up as fast as I take it out up to about the end of july when the water table drops.
Ive been looking into doing a hand pounded well with a hand pump on top. I dont knw if ill ever actually do it but it would be nice

 

[ShotgunWally]

What's the best ways to lug water
or what's some cheap pumps that you can run tube with
or some high end ins if anyone knows?
Im kinda worried about watering that'd be awesome to have a pump pumping the water right near the patch
i was just going to fill up a backpack and put 6 gallon jugs in a back pack and probley have to do two trips to water the patch of 15
so 12 gallons for 15 plans. Would be much easier to just pump the water.

man not to be a asshole, but good luck with 12 gallons of water per 15 plants, for me it was 5 gallons per plant once a week lots of times it was 10 gallons a week per plant. ol hippy Shotgun peace good luck bro

 

[doubletake]

man not to be a asshole, but good luck with 12 gallons of water per 15 plants, for me it was 5 gallons per plant once a week lots of times it was 10 gallons a week per plant. ol hippy Shotgun peace good luck bro

I'm doing a late season probley plant like July so they won't be drinking that much I'm only trying to get some 4 or 5 foot bushes not monsters out there that are going to take 5 gallons a plant my outdoor last year a gallon did each plant in the ground pretty much perfect.

 

[Prince Charles]

6 gallon containers perfect

 

[hotrodharley]

They work great. I was able to find either 2.5 or 3 gallon ones, I forget. Nice I can fit one in my bag and carry the other one in hand.

I'd like to get away from lugging water. Think I am going to try a new method this year. Maybe some kind of reservoir. Even if I still have to haul, I'd rather do it early on when it is cool rather than in July when it's 90 degree out!

Reservoir camouflaged with drip irrigation out of it. Just a few more pounds of parts and your water is parsed out regularly.

 

[doubletake]

Reservoir camouflaged with drip irrigation out of it. Just a few more pounds of parts and your water is parsed out regularly.

You just set it up uphill right and run the tubing to your spot?
Or if you put it down hill just buy a little pump to pump water out of it?
Iv herd of dudes running tubing for miles.

 

[hotrodharley]

You just set it up uphill right and run the tubing to your spot?
Or if you put it down hill just buy a little pump to pump water out of it?
Iv herd of dudes running tubing for miles.

Uphill and just slightly. The higher it is above the plants (the greater the headspace) the more pressure is exerted on your drip emitters and the faster your res empties.