The Best; I have been installing these locally where I live in Utah . for 8 years.. even with the cold weather. never a problem a very well built unit. I have 2 on my own property for my steers and my horses..

I love my Bar-Bar-A. I have had it for 13 years. Very little maintenance. My install was way easier than this. We just dug a trench to the waterline. We were not able to run below the frost line so we just sleeved the waterline. Never have had it frozen. I love it.

Great video. Amazing how they were able to drill the hose path so accurately. Here, we have so many rocks, it would be impossible. They make shoring protection for a reason. If there was a cave-in, your wife would be dead before you could have got her out of there. We are installing a system like yours and this video really helps. Thanks again and be careful out there.

We disagree, You can direction drill in a Richie too, and either of these can be trenched in also to save that cost. The problem with Richie is simple they cost monthly to operate monthly all winter, the heaters fail after 4-5 years and need replacement, there occasionally develops slime mold in the yellow interior of the tanks since seldom cleanable and the install of pvc through a poured concrete pad is no easy install either unless you just drop a Richie onto the dirt and let it sink into the mud. Also the drain hole is now in place for over two years on our farm, cattle and horse on it and no issues, I will be this spring replacing our farms last Richies, I will pull it out of service, lose the $30/month winter electric bill on it which in Minnesota is about $180 yr expense per Richie and save with second one of these none electric, fresh water BAR BAR A's. To date I have on two different farms installed 4 of these in Minnesota saving the cost of 1500watt heat bills (180$ each yr) and failed heater elements since 2012.

Interesting technology. I never though of using tires. I've used two 5 gallon pails with bottoms cut off stacked/ stuffed with R30 fiberglass insulation bcuz mice hate it. At the dairy i work they have a fancy California designed livestock fountain set up here in Mn. The freestall barn has six 6' x 6' frost free all poured concrete on site water fountains, the water comes up from the bottom via 3" pvc, that comes from two stock tanks with 1" float valves one for low level and one for high level 100 yards away. The engineers who built it figured out the correct ground level to locate the stock tanks to make it all work. One of the problems with dairy cows is we walk them through the copper sulfate foot baths everyday so they think it's okay to stand in the water fountains on hot days.

This has been a nicely filmed how to. You did do one potentially dangerous/ fatal thing in your project, and that was going into that hole without any side wall retention materials. Our son used to work for a company that was shiftless about installing steel boxes in sewer trenches. If a wall were to slough off while your pretty wife was shoveling the dirt at the bottom, you could have been a widower. A four foot waterline trench requires a steel box, as a person can suffocate if the dirt is high enough to prevent chest expansion. This is meant to be a thought provoking commentary about a simple thing that can change many lives, when things take an unexpected turn. I had a close call in a field drainage trench the dropped around a half ton of dirt just after I had gone down to reconnect a coupler that had pulled apart.

mine goes in Monday, cant wait

big thanks from Germany for another great educational vid! :)

Looking for a waterer but don't really want old tires above ground as part of the installation.

Wonder if a ditch witch would be wise?

'healthy' water is not fluoridated, which is what this looks like... too bad... Thank you for the real work-view of what it really takes....complete with the helluva pipeline from the house... ttyl

What is poly? You sprayed the gravel?

We are installing one today in central Michigan. Do you pull the waterline up through the tires and make the connection inside the tires? It looks like you did this with your first installation but I couldn’t tell on your second installation video. Thank you!

Great video....but nobody should be in that hole without steel enclosure for anti cave in. We had a friend who died in a trench just like yours. Better to be safe.

Good video but the supply list writing in blue is extremely hard to read. Could you change it to white or put it in a text box. You could also add a text box that says that a supply list is in the description. Just some thoughts. Thanks for the video.

What about the valve freezing....has there been any issues with that?

The cost????????????????

Hello, how big is that top tire?

Is it easy to teach the horses how to use the watering system? Vinny

Love the video! I’m considering getting one for my horses here in Minnesota too. do you know how well they work with well water or would I need to get a water softener to be able to use this my water has a lot of iron in it

Did you put a valve off your main water line where it connects to waterer hose? I’m installing one of these right now. I have a 1” blue line looks similar to yours.

Great video, thanks for posting! I think you sold me on the Bar Bar A. Appreciate the update too, but how about another - it's -40 in Bemidji right now (0600h on 1/30/19), does it still perform?

Expense of this is prohibitive in my nation around 9k so your nation must be cheap to live in for you to do this for horses?

Need some tracks on your loader lol

how is it electricity free if you hooked it to the house water source, which has a monthly bill I'd assume? Just curious. Hows it holding up?

Does the animal realize that there is water there. Or do you have to sort of train them?

money, money, money...

Well, if this guy can do it, how can't I? (Do anything?) thanks buddy!

how's it holding up for you..

Damn...that's pricey.

Wow the wife jumping down in that hole was dangerous as shit, what if it had of caved in.

I gave you a thumbs down because you don't know how to run a skid steer the way you was moving both sticks is not how you do it that is a good way to cause your transmission or your final drives to break all u have to do it is 1 of your sticks side to side it would work better it cheaper to fix a hydraulic calenders than it is your main drive but other than that great video