Bruce
Herd Master
There WAS running water, that is the confusing part. Worked fine for the first 2 years through the winter. And it was still running through the summer of 2013 when the contractors were rebuilding half the house. They used it to get drinking water. Then in the fall I was getting no water, thought maybe the lifting lever had frozen overnight or something so when it still wasn't working later, I stopped trying and shut it off in the basement. NO idea how far down the plastic pipe is nor what path it takes to get to the barn. It can't be a straight shot because that would mean it had to go underneath the little barn which was built (as were the house and big barn) prior to the US Civil War.
Perhaps one of your animals could be a mule, it could carry water for you But your life, buried water line wise, will hopefully be a lot easier than it is here. You can likely get away with an 18" ditch digger. My options:
Perhaps one of your animals could be a mule, it could carry water for you But your life, buried water line wise, will hopefully be a lot easier than it is here. You can likely get away with an 18" ditch digger. My options:
- digging under the deck to where it currently comes out (too high for sure) from the basement, going around the propane tank, under the power line from the solar array and behind the little barn to the frost free spigot is in the lower part of the big barn.
- as above but going between the house and small barn, under the propane line, the power line from the array and under the powerline from the house to the small barn
- Drill underground into the crawlspace (new poured concrete foundation) and connect to the water line in there then run under the power line to the big barn and between the little and big barn down to the spigot.