what type of pipe

[frios]

Location: Medina county - north of Hwy 90 - very rocky

I plan on having 2 water troughs for wildlife, but I'm not sure what type of pipe to use to run from my 1500 gallon water tank to my troughs - about 600ft away from water tank.

The land is very rocky, so digging is really out of the question and I really don't know what a guy would charge me to trench with some type of rocksaw. I imagine lots of money.

I was thinking of just running some type of swing pipe or poly pipe. I don't thing PVC would work because I think it would just rot in the heat.


Any thoughts/ideas/suggestions is greatly appreciated.

[toledo]

If you want to try something cheap, toro oval hose. I've had some in the sun for a few months and been happy with it so far. I went that route to move 30gpm almost 1500 feet.

For troughs you probably don't need much flow so I'd probably just go straight to a small diameter poly.

[double lung]

I bet you could pick up some used HDPE pipe from Craigslist. We run that stuff on top of the ground all of the time.

[tex4k]

Ranches have miles upon miles of black poly strung out above and below ground all over Texas.

[BowCrazy]

Ranches have miles upon miles of black poly strung out above and below ground all over Texas.

This, we hunted in Caddo just east of Breckinridge and the land owner had miles of this across the ranch.

[brokeno]

I had rats eat holes in pvc laying on top of the ground

[RifleBowPistol]

Ranches have miles upon miles of black poly strung out above and below ground all over Texas.

Yep, this should work well.

I would not use PVC, if there are cattle around, then will break that stuff, pretty quickly. The poly, will handle cattle kicking and stepping on it a lot better.

[cva34]

tex4k and RBP right on.. yep a leak or broke now and then but easy fix ...

[frios]

Thanks for all the info. Much appreciated!!

Will look into the black poly.
guessing home depot or lowes should have it.

[kurt68]

Buddy just bought 221 acres in Rocksprings, water troughs at all feeders. Miles of black poly pipe running all over the place. Runs across roads, you can drive the tractor, side by side, trucks, it doesn't matter, it holds up great.

[BlessedVeteran0305]

Buddy just bought 221 acres in Rocksprings, water troughs at all feeders. Miles of black poly pipe running all over the place. Runs across roads, you can drive the tractor, side by side, trucks, it doesn't matter, it holds up great.

This is very accurate. When I lived in west texas, a lot of the cattle troughs had this very same piping running to them because it was to rocky to bury the line. PVC will not only deteriorate over time but it will freeze and bust easily above ground if it gets cold enough.

[Abctx]

I’ve had black poly out for a few years, on top of the ground. Nothing has chewed on it, yet. It won’t get brittle in the sun, like pvc will. The 1-1/2” works well. I had used some 1” on one leg, and because the internal diameter of the connectors was so small (3/4” or less), it would clog easily (this was an overflow running from an open 5000 gallon fiberglass stock tank, to a dirt tank a few hundred yards away. Algae that got sucked in would occasionally clog it. If your 1500 gallon tank is a “clean” tank, it wouldn’t likely be an issue. I wouldn’t use less than 1-1/2” again for water that might have algae/bugs/leaves/twigs in it.

[Abctx]

Thanks for all the info. Much appreciated!!

Will look into the black poly.
guessing home depot or lowes should have it.

You can order the larger diameters “ship to store free” from Home Depot. Note, the 1/2”-3/4” stuff used for drip irrigation is not heavy duty enough, and coyotes/rats will chew that up..

[frios]

ahhh. And I was looking into 3/4 or 1 inch.

Very good information! Thanks!!!

[frios]

which pipe?

I checked home depot and saw this...

there is
160psi NSF poly
80 psi uty poly
200 psi nsf

I don't know the difference. I just know I will be using gravity feed to the troughs.