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Water wagon to water flowers

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  1. Jeffrey Sexton
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    8/29/2012 7:08 PM
    I am looking to make a water wagon for my horticulturalist to water annual flower beds. I have a 200 gal tank from an old toro sprayer, but struggling to come up with ideas to convert it to what I am looking for. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks

    Jeff Sexton
    Evansville CC
    Evansville, IN



  2. Rosenthal Gregg
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    8/30/2012 4:08 AM
    Why not just go to farm store and get a cheap water wagon trailer, they can have a pump installed or just be gravity flow? That sprayer is too low to the ground to work without pumping water out as its design for spraying and fit to cart makes your use more difficult....

    Gregg



  3. Kyle Fick
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    8/30/2012 10:08 AM
    If you are just looking to use the tank, and will mount on a seperate axle, why not put a small electric pump in line off the bottom drain, and simply down size it all to garden hose thread. Alligator clips to the battery of whichever cart you are going to use and bang. Look in Miltona's catalogue, they have a little setup that they sell as a irrigation hole pump. You can find these things anywhere.

    As a second thought, if you are going to use the tank as you say, mount it to a skid that can be loaded into the box of a utility cart. We've got a setup as such that we use to water greens in the winter for hard to reach areas. A 200 gallon tank, hose reel, and a little pump with gas engine that puts water out. I'm just thinking the electric will allow you less volume to not blast the flower beds, and will be ultra quite.

    Kyle Fick



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