Water System – Engineering help

I got an idea from RAM Outfitters and I want to copy but upscale it a bit. Given the heat and lack of rain in SD this year, I feel water will be a key component for our critters this summer and fall.

I plan to use a 250 gallon tote as my tank. See pic one. Then I need to manufacture a drain/float system. I would like to put the float into a small drinking pan. See pic 2 for “end result”.

I’m thinking a toilet float system of some sort. Need to head to the plumbing section for other ideas.

What do you think?

You could try a drinking cup, like they use in the barns. They used to be cast, but they have plastic ones now too. When the critter goes to drink, it starts the flow when they push the plunger in, it stops when they stop drinking. Then you would just need to plumb the line and have the cup mounted right below the tank.

All I know is your on to something. I know someone that killed a trophy a few years back during a dry hot fall over an artifical mud puddle.

Plastic Float valve.

http://www.flemingoutdoors.com/tmtrplflva.html

Get the tank up as high as you can to get as much head to the valve as possible. Minimize piping losses between the tank and the valve.

Possibly submerge the tank in the ground to gain some height.