Water butt/tank problemWater butt/tank problemThis is the butt/tank my friends at Permaculture have (click for larger pics) :-
The problem is they want to connect it to a hose to water the veggies. Does anyone know where we can get a connector to attatch a hose to this tap? They haven't managed to find anything to convert the large tap to a hose connection. In frith,
Raven Our Eggs don't Skelter
Re: Water butt/tank problemWell, as an old car bodger, I'd start thinking scrap yard, car water hose, jubilee clips and reducers!
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
- Pablo Picasso Re: Water butt/tank problemThat looks like something I used to deliver chemicals in, to sewerage works, we called them IBC's. We had them on the back of a flatbed truck, six or eight of them, then pumped them out into the customers tank. We carried loads of pipework and joined it all together if we couldn't park close to the tank. I seem to remember we had some adapters because some of the inlet pipes were a different size to our outlet valve.
Maybe you could look for industrial places that have them in their yard, chemical works, etc. Sorry I can't be of more help. Ilona Re: Water butt/tank problemActually that did help :) I didn't know they were called IBC's. Found some suppliers of bits, looks like about a tenner for the connectors they need.
In frith,
Raven Our Eggs don't Skelter Re: Water butt/tank problemRaven,
I just did a search on ebay fourteen to choose from on there. Al [center]Relax, I could have been a twin.[/center]
Re: Water butt/tank problemMy daughter has at least three of these in her garden and got the bits at B&Q. She linked the three together and just has a tap on one. She has so much water storage she could supply the village!
Re: Water butt/tank problemIf that is a thread on the tap ,it looks like a washing m/c type size. So yep any shed should sell the bits.
Re: Water butt/tank problemA plumbers merchant might help you more than B&Q or Homebase etc etc
if the tap can be unscrewed from the resevoir take it along to a supplier and they should be able to offer you a solution. Also consider aquatic centres as they stock that corrugated pipe used in tanks ponds etc. [center]Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit[/center]
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