Assess Existing Watering Needs and System

hey there folks this is Josh Stoney Ridge farmer welcome back to the farm the cows are all down here in anticipation of something fun going down it's not food but that's what they're waiting for so today we're going to be working with our watering system down here at the cows on the opposite side of the farm from our house now this is probably I don't know three four hundred yards from our house we don't have a water system set up over here other than passive water flow by siphon in other words gravity fed water down to our waters you can see one water right down here and then there's another one right here so what we want to do is try and space our waters out about a hundred feet we're going to show you a cool contraption here we'll take you through the installation and the assembly of this entire critter and this is going to help us to have our passive water system maintenance-free this is a float valve that goes in our water tanks pretty cool so come along as we have a little bit of fun give you some ideas for your place and how you can set up a passive water system on your own property all right [Music] guys this is Butthead and this is boss cow and over here is number one number one thinks she's a movie star good stuff our stock here are all Black Angus cows for right now this cow here weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,100 to 1,200 pounds and I believe she is pregnant and the one behind her is probably about 1152 1250 and that's the first cow that we bought here on the farm we're going to start mob grazing pretty soon this summer as we get our electric line put in on our fence right here first things first we're gonna drive up here to the dam so I can show you exactly where this water comes from crews on up top here now you guys might wonder why we didn't put our fence here instead of here well you're seeing the reason right now we can maintain our fence lines by having a six to eight foot path on the side of the fence here so we'll just keep this mode and that way we don't get brush and trees all in our fence line and this is a bit of a tight squeeze there we go it screws down here to the pond guys I apologize about the wind it's whipping today probably 3040 miles an hour at time so this is our pond right here this is about an acre and a half pond it was built in 1961 we actually dammed this pond up right there head of the pipe we dammed it up and we put a new pipe in the old pipe is still out here from 1961 and we were praying that we don't…