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beefmaster

Posted 7/26/2012 07:16 (#2506269)
Subject: Installing tire water tank today....

SW Minnesota

I am going to put a bottom in a 8' tire water tank in the pasture today and was just curious what the best way to put a bottom in it. I have been told that putting sakrete in the bottom dry and then filling about half full with water to let the sakrete set up is a good way of doing it. Any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!!

BRADLEYGRAY

Posted 7/26/2012 07:28 (#2506284 - in reply to #2506269)
Subject: RE: Installing tire water tank today....

what kind of valve are you going to use? buddy of mine put three in last sat.. he said he put around eight bags in bottom and just filled it up and start using it he said it would set up on its on..

Ben

Posted 7/26/2012 07:54 (#2506337 - in reply to #2506269)
Subject: RE: Installing tire water tank today....

North Mo.

I don't know we always mixed then put in. Don't forget to protect the valve cause someday something will get in. Ben

beefmaster

Posted 7/26/2012 08:56 (#2506466 - in reply to #2506337)
Subject: RE: Installing tire water tank today....

SW Minnesota

Thanks for the input. I am not putting a valve in the bottom as it is all surface pipe running to the tanks and will be using a Hudson valve on the top. Is there any better valves/floats out there to use?

sdnotill1983

Posted 7/26/2012 09:00 (#2506478 - in reply to #2506466)
Subject: RE: Installing tire water tank today....

SE SD

http://www.powerflexfenceonline.com/Articles.asp?ID=264

that is a pretty good article on installing a tire tank. I used a hudson valve on mine, but didnt install the piping underneath, mine have a steel bottom. There is better options for valves than a hudson valve if installing from the bottom. Check out there website for some more options.

Edited by sdnotill1983 7/26/2012 09:01

BRADLEYGRAY

Posted 7/26/2012 09:08 (#2506499 - in reply to #2506478)
Subject: Re: Installing tire water tank today....

LOOK AT JOBE VALVES THEY ARE AWESOME GET THE MEGA FLOW

5 Head

Posted 7/26/2012 09:32 (#2506542 - in reply to #2506269)
Subject: Re: Installing tire water tank today....

South West MN

i drill lag bolts into the tire and put a piece of old cattle panel across the hole. than you can move the tank if you want to. we have an old tire that has plywood screwed to the inside of the hole that does not leak.

Ben

Posted 7/26/2012 11:36 (#2506714 - in reply to #2506466)
Subject: RE: Installing tire water tank today....

North Mo.

Boy I hate to rec. a Hudson valve. We have several in use at times if the water is CLEAN they work but can and will run constantly at some point in time. There is a little hole in the thing that will plug up when it does, it is a constant flow. So you are running water on top to a tire tank with concrete bottom? OK most use portable tanks for that. ! Ben

John SD

Posted 7/26/2012 13:23 (#2506861 - in reply to #2506466)
Subject: RE: Installing tire water tank today....

I prefer the Watson/Lewis valve installed in the bottom of the tank makes a good winterproof installation. Toughest valve available by far IMO.

Also I like to install the tank with a 4" pvc drain. Just plumb your drain with a female elbow in the flush with the concrete bottom and about 3 sections of PVC shallow buried in the lay of the land away from the tire.

I like the easy way of putting the reddi-mix in the tank dry. It was worked for me in the past. I always use bentonite under the reddi-mix and gently add water to cover it from my pickup water tank with a 2" drain hose.

corn1

Posted 7/26/2012 17:30 (#2507170 - in reply to #2506269)
Subject: Re: Installing tire water tank today....

SESD

Just bought a tire and did the same thing. We bought one with a bottome in it. They just put tar on the bottom and bolted a piece of steel to the bottom. Works great and I can move it when we take cows off the pasture.

ksfarmboy

Posted 7/26/2012 18:28 (#2507255 - in reply to #2506269)
Subject: Re: Installing tire water tank today....

We just installed one over the weekend in a pen used for rotational grazing. We put pipe up from the bottom and a check valve. Our well and solar pump are just outside the pen. We have a float switch that simply turns off the pump when tank gets full. We used sakrete and tamped in dry in tank bottom and slowly filled the tank. The guy I bought the tank from said that he has put in dozens that way and never had one leak as long as you keep it covered with water for at least a year. I don't know how he came up with the year figure but that is what he said. We put screws around the lower bead of the tire before we tamped in the sakrete. We don't plan on moving this one. We also are going to put a post on the outside farthest away from the fence that it sits by and make a triangle out of guard rail so that cattle can't get in it and tear up center fill pipe or the switch.

aussiebagger

Posted 7/27/2012 00:31 (#2507935 - in reply to #2506499)
Subject: Re: Installing tire water tank today....

Adelaide Hills, South Australia

I like the Jobe valves with the quick detach, easy to clean if something gets in the screen

lawfarms

Posted 7/27/2012 00:34 (#2507938 - in reply to #2506269)
Subject: RE: Installing tire water tank today....

King City, Mo

lots of people around here but ben-a-night how ever it's spelled in the bottom of the tire tanks...

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