Hi all,
Newbie here, so please go easy! I'm going to have many questions over the coming year or two!
Family have finally bought our first smallholding, roughly 10 acres, split into 3 fields next to the house. We have a couple of horses we are planning on bringing with us.
One of the first jobs i'd like to tackle is laying water pipe to the fields for the automatic water troughs (three of these 30 gallon troughs, one in each field).
First purchase is a small tractor, something like a Kioti CK, and either buy or rent a subsoiler
So here's the first part of the plan i'm not sure of, laying 25mm MDPE pipe with the above to the 3 fields should be ok, I think?
How would you normally lay these, assuming the fields were next to each other and access was fine, would you daisy chain one off the other? I.e. subsoil to field one, pipe comes out, T junction, connect one T to the trough, the other goes back in the ground on the way to the 2nd field and so on?
And actually connecting to the main, would 25mm be fine connecting to an external household tap with the correct connections, or would the pressure be way off, i.e would I have to get someone out to connect it to the mains supply?
Finally, all 3 fields would not be in use at the start, so would you put a shut off valve by each T junction to each field and then turn them off manually when not in use? I've read bits and pieces about inspection holes being dug and all of that, but seems like a lot of work and not even considered how i'd approach that!
Thanks everyone
R
Newbie here, so please go easy! I'm going to have many questions over the coming year or two!
Family have finally bought our first smallholding, roughly 10 acres, split into 3 fields next to the house. We have a couple of horses we are planning on bringing with us.
One of the first jobs i'd like to tackle is laying water pipe to the fields for the automatic water troughs (three of these 30 gallon troughs, one in each field).
First purchase is a small tractor, something like a Kioti CK, and either buy or rent a subsoiler
So here's the first part of the plan i'm not sure of, laying 25mm MDPE pipe with the above to the 3 fields should be ok, I think?
How would you normally lay these, assuming the fields were next to each other and access was fine, would you daisy chain one off the other? I.e. subsoil to field one, pipe comes out, T junction, connect one T to the trough, the other goes back in the ground on the way to the 2nd field and so on?
And actually connecting to the main, would 25mm be fine connecting to an external household tap with the correct connections, or would the pressure be way off, i.e would I have to get someone out to connect it to the mains supply?
Finally, all 3 fields would not be in use at the start, so would you put a shut off valve by each T junction to each field and then turn them off manually when not in use? I've read bits and pieces about inspection holes being dug and all of that, but seems like a lot of work and not even considered how i'd approach that!
Thanks everyone
R