Long galvanized water trough ?

[Henarar]

Is 10ft the longest they make or does anyone make a longer one ?
need it to reach through a wide hedge

 

[neilo]

Would it not be cheaper & easier to put a smaller one each side, joined with a few m of alkathene pipe? Save getting so much cr*p from the hedge in it all the time too.

 

[Henarar]

Would it not be cheaper & easier to put a smaller one each side, joined with a few m of alkathene pipe? Save getting so much cr*p from the hedge in it all the time too.

I can't do that because its fed from a spring and will block alkathene if it has any little dips in it, been there done that.
if I could link the two troughs with a bit of straight pipe say 3 inch so it could be roded then that would be ok but I would need to seal the pipe to the higher trough somehow
I have one done with a tank through the hedge, well it a high back with a hedge on top and I put some galvanize on top to stop most of the crap and suck it out every now and then with the vac tank

 

[som farmer]

you can get sealed joints, through a tank side, do same on other end, and link up, we have also used inner tube very successfully, as washers

 

[M-J-G]

you can get sealed joints, through a tank side, do same on other end, and link up, we have also used inner tube very successfully, as washers

Yeah, it's pretty easy to seal, particularly if water isn't pressurised.

Or cut the hedge back

 

[Henarar]

you can get sealed joints, through a tank side, do same on other end, and link up, we have also used inner tube very successfully, as washers

May have to go down this route, would rather have just had one long trough and kept it simple

 

[kill]

Just get one made up what ever length you need or find a lenght of larger diameter gas pipe or similar and block the ends as it's constantly feed

 

[gone up the hill]

May have to go down this route, would rather have just had one long trough and kept it simple

Just dig the hedge out/ put a standard trough in the hedge line and use wooden rails each end/ over the trough!

 

[onthehoof]

We have a 15ft one, no idea where it came from

 

[Henarar]

We have a 15ft one, no idea where it came from

at least I know they are made

 

[HarryB97]

I wouldn't waste your time with a metal one the bigger the trough the more likley it is to leak sooner rather than later!

 

[DRC]

Buy a big round plastic one .

 

[onthehoof]

Plastic more likely to split than steel surely?

 

[S J H]

May have to go down this route, would rather have just had one long trough and kept it simple

If you look at the fittings they use on galvanised box gutters there's a 2 part outlet either that would go either side of a 100mm hole, then just a bit of drainage pipe in between.