Today we are preventing a disaster! We are replacing leaky pipes before they burst and flood our barn. We still use steel lines yet and have all the tools to make our own lines. We show you from start to finish how to replace an old rusty water line. Thank you all for watching! Let us know in the comments what type of new water setup would be best in a barn like ours.
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If you decide to redo all of your lines, you should run your main line up high next to your milk line and then come down to the cups. It would all drain if you had to evacuate the system.
Had a frozen water in the milk house one time that was a mess. I got drenched trying get to where I could shut the water off. The temperature was zero. The 1/4 mile walk back to the house for dry clothes was not fun.
Always interesting to see how you work things out. Glad it was done before the freezing weather came through. I asked my husband what the temperature was today (1/18/24) and he said it was back to being more like winter should be. Right now it is 19. Thanks for the video.
wow that is amazing the every day work that goes on a farm. its always something different no matter what kind of day and that makes it awesome. i have to say your deffinatly one of my fav farming channels. Quick Question did you ever sale your boiler and put in that other one or no. I am really curious to know
Always love listening to your dad explaining things. Great video. All the best 🇬🇧.
our water lines and air lines for the milkers ran over head, with drop down pipes for the drinking cups, we used 3/4 inch steel pipes for both
We had the same type of system, except, there was a drinking bowl for every cow. And since we kept them in during the winter months we plugged every hole that allowed cold air to come in. I remember how warn and toasty the barn was on those cold mornings, even in sub zero temperature, sometimes we removed our jackets to keep from sweating. Now we no longer milk and by the time I was a teenager Dad went to work in the shop after he had hauled cattle for years to slaughter houses. At one time her and my one Uncle had a milk route where they picked up farmer's milk and delivered to a dairy for bottling. Farming is never dull. Keep those videos coming. Love your channel
Nice repairs have a great day.
You guys have a great shop and knowledge for making repairs. Always a pleasure to watch a well organized operation. This is what farming should be. Great job!
Why not use PEX to replace piping?
My neighbor was a an Surge dealer back in the 80's here in NW Indiana not sure if you guys ever dealt with them back then.
The worst thing about old pipe is once you start it’s anyone’s guess where the repair will end. One threaded joint twisting out in a fitting changes Plan A in a heartbeat!
Ever thaw out a frozen line with the arc welder?
Nothing can replace hands on experience and passed on knowledge. College education has its place but it sickens me to no end when tradesmen/farmers are viewed at as less intelligent.
You guys are great, it's intertwining, encouraging, and educating.
WELL DONE.
Water lines are one of the challenges of farming. Your proactive repairs are time well-spent. Failed water lines never seem to pick a good time to happen. Woke up to hear water running in the basement from a corroded fitting between the pump line and tank inlet decided to burst. Luckily a floor drain prevented a major flood.
I remember having to replace waterline Showing up to a flooded barn in the morning to is not fun
Respect to your dad he has a passion for his trade
Maybe run pex inside your old pipe to give it protection from the cows walking on it.
Your story about the well pump made me thing of my grandfather. We used to manually water our cows in an old bathtub. My grandfather would fill it and walk off to do something else. It never failed, someone would take a shower and there wasn’t and pressure 😂. You’d yell out of the shower for someone to go up the hill to the barn and shut the spigot off.
Hey guys, please talk into the mic >>>>>>>> hard to hear you at times, THANKS!
i used pex, i found with cows that there is no perfect system. sooner or later they will break something, like you i have fittings and the tools to quickly repair a leak and just looking for drips before they become a gusher
Aaron, can you tell me what that metal upside down "T" apparatus is for that your dad hit his head on at 9:28 in the video?
Edit: and are they for the same purpose as the sawtooth looking ones?
looks like pex would be a good option very easy to work with.
Oh no waterlines my dad‘s barn was a different tie stall with a solid pipe that ran through the middle and then off of that pipe we used old milk or hose and had Barb end and use that to replace them and then all the waterlines were overhead like over the Man major way, and everything the water was overhead, so to be easy to drain access and repairand the milk lines the rubber milk lines were thing that you had to replace anyways so it was a another use for them
We had our waterline running the length of the stall on the ceiling and our galvanized pipes run down to the drinking cups with 4by4,s to clamp them on for protection from the cows bumping them and for support/ they done well and never froze like our old one,s did, they were pretty much like yours on the floor!
Great video every farm should have a pipe cutter and threading dies you never can tell when you will need them
Our water line for the cow's drinking cups were over head and I don't remember any replacement of the water line but the drinking cup valves would get stuck open from time to time. Our water pressure tank was in the basement of our house, like Georges Dad's, and when the cow drank the pipes would bang when they stopped drinking.
might want to lookinto sch 120 plastic
We have a tie stall barn different type of stalls and manger we have a high manger with what used to be called comfort stalls by standard equipment which went outof business yrs ago the original stalls had all galvanized pipe there was 3 pipes across the front of all stalls the bottom pipe was the water with curved pipes which curved under the bowls and connected under them age took its toll on all the water lines so we switched it over to pvc pipe attached to the top pipe in the fronts with vinyl tubing hooked into the tops of plastic water bowls the pipes sometimes get busted and the cows push on the tubing and bust it too but a pocket knife and nut driver can fix the tubing in minutes but its better than dealing with galvanized pipe
Enjoyed your video
I’m a licensed pump installer for the state of Wisconsin. I’m in the Green Bay area. When we pipe barns we try to put ball valve in so we can isolate the barn in half and in quarters and some that have stock tanks we have hose thread faucets to fill while the pips are fixed. And if the pipe is around cows galvanized pipe is the cheapest. Stainless pipe is expensive and a pain to thread