Tire Water Tank Install | Simple Start to Finish Tutorial for Your Farm

And guys, this tire has to be clean, okay? I want my animals to have the best water. And we are actually going to put goldfish in this tank. And I've got a little solar bubbler. And we'll keep goldfish in this tank to help keep the water clean and clear. A little fish poop never hurt anybody. But also, what a great canary in the mine right here telling us about how good our water quality is. [Music] dance. [Music] Folks, welcome back to Stony Ridge Farm. Today's video is going to teach you how to install a tire water tank. This is a tire water tank that we've had on the farm for about 3 years now. And I'm going to go back in and show you guys how we installed this tank. This serves 50 cows and will serve a lot more cows than that. It's super simple, super easy to maintain. I've got a goldfish in there or multiple goldfish in there which help to keep the tank clean. It's probably the least expensive way that you can get a massive amount of water to your cattle. I get a lot of comments and questions on this. I get a lot of comments saying, "You're going to kill your cows with the chemicals that are leeching out of that tire." This is very very common in agriculture. Let's get busy. We'll show you guys the meat and potatoes of how to install a tire water tank. I hope you enjoy. Please leave comments if you have any. And we'll also show you how in a future video to install a Mirount Frostfree water tank, which is awesome. We do the 3390 on this farm. Cool stuff. Let's get busy. [Music] Heat up here. [Music] Woohoo! [Music] We're here, boy. Folks, I hope you enjoyed that little segment right there. That was pretty fun. This is the tank, and I've actually got to take this tank down to my garage. I'm going to take it down on the pallet forks and rinse it out, scrub it out real good with soapy water. Uh, what we have are several thought processes at work here. So, we have to be able to drain this tank. And the way we're going to build this is we're going to put rock dust or screenings down right here. We're going to tamp all this stuff down. We're going to lay the tank over in there. There going to be two plumbing fixtures that come up into this tank. One is a drain, the other is a valve, and we're using a Joby valve. I'll uh post links to all the stuff that we're using. If you can buy it, I'll post it uh for Amazon down there. Uh also using some pretty cool tools today. That Milwaukee heat gun is an instrumental part of this operation. And I'm going to walk you around right quick and show you, and it'll make more sense in a minute. So, let me walk you and show you. So, our solar well is way over here. We've trenched around 3,200 ft on this side of the farm. And we're still not done on this side of the farm. I've got an entire water system plan. And I'm going to post that right here as I'm talking. You guys can see that. That's my water system and my intensive grazing plan. So, we'll be moving the cows on a daily or by daily basis here on the farm. That's a pretty neat little plan. I drew that up using the GIS website and using Microsoft Paint, I think is how I did it, but it really came out great. So, what we got, we have to bring the Joby valve up into hopefully I'm saying it right. I think it's Joby. I don't think it's job. Uh, so we go from inch and a quarter poly. We're going to put a valve here. There'll be a hole down in the ground where I can access that. I'll show you exactly how I make that. And this little section will go from inch and a quarter poly to 1 inch schedule 40 PVC to our valve. And this is our Megaplow uh float valve. And we'll show you how all that works. This will be stubbed up out of the ground right about there. And this apparatus will be stubbed up out of the ground. This is where it gets different from everybody else's. So Greg, Judy, and all these other folks are out here building tire water tanks. I've got some different ideas and I think it's important that we have variety in our life. So, what I'm going to do is this end I made a gigantic U. It's just basically a U-shaped piece of PVC pipe. This will come up inside the water tank. That is our drain. Water will fall down into that and this will be at a lower point. However, I don't have a hillside dropping off right here. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to put a cap on that right there. And then when I need to drain, I'll just hit that and it'll drain it really quick. So, really, really cool little setup. Now, I'm going to do something a little different and it involves a bowling ball. So, stick around to the end and let me know what your thoughts are because cows, especially young calves, will get in these tanks sometimes and that's a life-threatening situation. I actually lost a calf in a water tank one time. And once you do that once, you will learn. Absolutely. So, some folks put bars across the top of it. I've got a different plan. So, stick around to the end. You'll see that. If you have any questions, please post them down there in the comments section. Tell me what I'm doing wrong because I know you guys like to do that, right? Let's have some fun. Tell me if you think the U will work. I think it'll work. And if it doesn't work, we'll fix it. So, what we have here again, and this will be down below the frost line, is a inch and a quarter ball valve. And I'm giving you detail on the things that I think are very important. This inch and a quarter ball valve normally has a handle that's faced downward. We'll get you some footage of making one of these real quick. What I did was design this so that it fits down in what I'm going to make, which is a hand hole. This will go down in the ground and it will have a cap on it. I have already done one of these and it works absolutely fantastic. And this is just a hand hole like you would use for a sprinkler system. And this will be up out of the ground about that far. It'll have a nice good cap on it so that cows cannot get their feet entrapped in it. I'm gonna show you how I make the hand hole. And it involves a hole saw and a razor knife. Cool. This is going to sit down in the ground. I don't want my pipe to be right smack on the ground. My valve I want my valve to be elevated probably about two inches or so. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to drill my first hole five rungs up on this corrugated. I'm going to go exactly on the opposite side just like so. Next thing I'm going to do is I'm just going to take my razor knife and I'm going to cut a slit. Boy. And then I'm going to replace the blade on my knife. Little slit there. Now, I'm not going right up the center. I'm going off to the side just a little bit. There we go. Now, this valve will be housed inside here. That's how I got the valve inside there by putting the slit. If I want to go crazy with it, I can zip tie this thing back together right where I'm at. But that allows me to access my valve. This will be down in the ground approximately 20 in. Now, we're going to go install the valve. Oh man, the sun is going down on me, guys. Dropped that in the dirt. Shouldn't have done that. So, first thing I'm going to do here, I've got all my tools. I made this little thing right here so I never lose my nut driver. Just kind of pops in there. The lid of that I never lose it. It's always with my hose clamps. These are number 20 hose clamps. When I put these on, I'm going to put one facing this way and I'm going to put one facing that way. We've got to heat this pipe up in order to accomplish this task. This is a tool that I couldn't do this without. So, this is a Milwaukee heat gun with a monstrous battery. This is the HD 12.0 battery. Uh, very cool tool. I'll post a link to this critter in the video description down there for you. Slide my barbed fitting right in here. There we go. Tighten these up while it's still warm. And that'll help that barb fitting grab just a little bit tighter. Next thing we got to do is hook our riser up right here. And I've got that right over here behind me. This is my riser. And that's set up to go from poly to schedule 40 PVC. I've also got to glue this guy together, too. Want to make sure everything is in place in uh properly in place prior to gluing this up. So, I've got to make sure also that I'm lined up. In other words, I'm long enough. I want to be away from my uh valve here far enough to where the cows aren't trampling all over top of it all the time. I'm actually going to use this entire thing and I'm going to bring the trencher back up because I've got a trench oh a little bit more to run my 4 inch or my 3-in drain pipe. So, I'm actually going to put the entire thing on there. And I'm going to go ahead and slip my two opposite facing number 20 hose clamps. We'll heat this guy up. I will not tighten the hose clamps yet because I want to make sure that I'm lined up perfectly before I tighten up my hose clamps. All right, we should be good to slide our handle down in here. So, I just installed the riser down there. I'll show you that detail in just a second. We'll slip this guy over. Valve in. And we got it. Now, this won't set all the way down in here because I've still got to trench out just a little bit more here. I'm going to bring this out just a little ways away so again that the hight traffic area doesn't take a beating right here. So, that's it. We'll see you in the morning with the tire tank cleaned and rock dust tamping and doing concrete. Awesome. We are halfway almost 3/4 of the way done. This is a pretty simple process after we get all the piping done. See you in the morning. Next day, same clothes. There ain't no use in changing my clothes to something nice if I'm going to get dirty. So, you guys probably just saw the footage. I did a little extra trenching. So, this is the trench for my drain. That's my drain pipe. It's going in in just a second. I've got little T, the little TYM 254. I'll show you something cool in the bucket. And I've got this trench dug out all the way where I need to be. So, the next step in this process is going to be back filling this trench. And I'm just going to push some dirt off in it. I also have a load of screenings or rock dust right here. And this is just basically granite sand. Okay, so it's really, really fine sand. It's getting on the camera lens. And what I have on the back of the truck, this is also some geomat that I'm going to lay out after we get done here. Inside the bucket here, I hauled up enough water to get the job done. I've got nine bags of sackrete right here. This is the high strength 80 lb bags of sackcrete. Now, I took my tire down and I scrubbed her out real good. Make sure it's nice and clean. And guys, this tire has to be clean, okay? I want my animals to have the best water. And we are actually gonna put goldfish in this tank. And I've got a little solar bubbler. And we'll keep goldfish in this tank to help keep the water clean and clear. A little fish poop never hurt anybody. But also what a great canary in the mine right here telling us about how good our quality water quality is. Next steps, we're going to put everything in the ground, get our tamper out, start tamping things down, push some dirt in. Then we'll take a little bit of this rock dust. We'll mound it up right here in kind of a circular pattern. And then we'll take the BH100 from Woods and we'll set this right over on top of all these pipes. Then we'll cut the pipe to the appropriate level and we'll start putting in concrete. We won't be able to put water in until first thing in the morning. So, let's get busy. We'll get you guys some awesome time lapse of what's going on. We're going to have to get over in the tire and I'm going to explain explain all that to you. What I just did was put a layer of rock dust in here and I also put two bags of concrete underneath the rock dust. And that's to help seal off the bottom right here. So now we start mixing up our concrete. We're going to be using Little T, the TYM 254 tractor. We're going to use that bucket as our concrete mixer. Reason I'm doing that is because it's simple, it's easy, it's a good working height, and when I get done, I can take it down and rinse it out. What we have to do now is we're going to take our level. We're going to go down in here and this is the level. I'm going to mark these. That's where our concrete is going to be. So, I'll mark those and I'm going to cut them off just a little bit lower. So, it needs to be low enough to where this sets down in there. Now, the 1-in pipe isn't as important. And this valve can be in there pretty much anywhere. But the 3-in pipe needs to be totally flush right here with the concrete. And that's where the concrete will come to. It'll be totally flush with the rim of this tire. When we slip a little piece of pipe out of here, we can clean this tank out. Basically, take a broom in there and sweep it all to the drain. Then it's going to drain out right over here. You see that guy sticking up out of the ground? Well, it's not going to stick out of the ground for very long, but we'll get down in here and we'll cut subgrade and then we'll put this cap on. Now, when we get ready to drain the pipe, we can just drop this out, pull, slide a piece of pipe out, and it'll just come right out down here to a lower spot. There is a bowling ball here. And you guys are going to have to stick around to the end of the video to figure out what the heck I'm going to do with that bowling ball. Use your imagination. and leave me a comment before we get done. [Music] So, this is the Joby Megaplow valve. There will be a tether with a float attached to this valve. This thing kicks butt. This will be attached via this 1 in nipple. So, this is a slip fitting. It'll slip right on there. And then our job Megaplow will screw right in there. I'll post a link to that critter in the video description. These are the best valves you can get. They will work on most any kind of tank. So, one of the cool things about this valve is that it has a quick detach. Okay. Bam. You can clean it. Has a little screen in there and it's a very easy quick attach. There'll be a full dedicated video to these valves. Now, we've got to cover this hole and we'll start pouring our concrete. What am I going to use? Flex tape. [Music] I'm in the [Music] All right, it's the final countdown. So, the concrete should have cured. I'm riding Red Yoda up here uh with the tools and everything that I need. And I'm going to show you guys the type of valve that I'm using just so you understand exactly how this works. And we're actually going to set the float in this valve. Um, I have the water system. The tank is right there. We're going to roll up here and everything's set. You guys saw me pour some rock around this. That's to stabilize it. And eventually I'll build an apron all the way around this thing and potentially put concrete in there. The cows need something to step up on so that we don't make a big mud hole. So, we've got our flex tape, which is right here. And we'll probably want to go ahead and remove that. Just take our knife here. And are you ready to see what the bowling ball is for? Get ready, cuz you're going to see it. This is my drain tube. My drain tube will be press fit down into here. This is my overflow. Okay. May have to make some adjustments with this. However, here's where we go bowling. So, I had an idea and this idea was simply to take this bowling ball and set it right on the top there as a seal. Now, if a calf were to get over into this water tank, what's going to happen? Bowling ball is going to get knocked off, right? Tank is going to drain. Well, actually, we'll probably take this down to about right here. Tank will drain and therefore the calf will not drown. This is going to be far enough inside the tank that we don't have to worry about a cow knocking it off inadvertently. And we'll cut this pipe off about right there. Now, this works on a float system. This little float is so where cows can't get a hold of it with their mouth cuz they'll play with it for sure. What we're going to do is we'll tie a little knot in here once we get to the level that we want. And there'll also be a knot on this end. So, we'll run it through the valve. Pull that through. This is what opens and closes our valve. This valve will do 36 gallons a minute at 30 PSI. It is a mega flow valve. We're going to fill this tank up pretty quickly, guys. Drain plug in place. And I also set this up where I could just pull this back apart. So, if this doesn't work, I'll be the first one to tell you. The moment of truth right here, guys. We've got water. So, over the next few minutes, this thing will fill up, guys. It doesn't look like much flow right now. The well is set to 12 to 13 gallons per minute. That's what's cool about the Lorent solar well, is that we can set it to however we like. So, once again, I'll post links to Lorent Solar and I'll post links to all the stuff that I used here, the Joby valve. uh without the help of those folks and without you guys watching, I wouldn't be able to bring this to you. So, thanks a lot. We're going to put goldfish in. So, tune in for a future video. Thanks a lot. Let you guys know also how the bowling ball went. I think it's going to work just fine. If it doesn't work, we'll just extend the pipe and then when we get ready to drain it, we'll slip the pipe out. Cool. See you guys next time on the Stony Ridge. I hope you learned something here. This was a great time and a very educational video. >> Come on down to the Stony Ridge. Bring your wife and bring your kids. You're living life pure and sweet. That's the way it's supposed to be. Stony Ridge, we're going to show you the drain real quick. And what I'm going to do is just pop this off and we'll show you how it leaks out over here. We'll pop the cover off here. Easily accessed. the answer is it does work. Awesome. Can drain this whole tank in about 3 minutes.