New Water Scheme Part 4: Setting troughs.

Getting the last of the major work done on the new water scheme. Showing how I plumb up a new trough.
My Name is Alistair Bird and My wife Genna and I farm on 'The Grange" near Oxford, North Canterbury, in the South Island of New Zealand.
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[@DeirdreHickey-nx8nt]

Amazing job on your pipe laying. Hard or try to bring water to all your animals. Very well done. It has been a massive undertaking. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@scottchaffey1514]

Great video. Our boarder collie ( Fletcher) loves to get in the water any chance he gets too. Just like Alfie did in the vid.

[@calling_a_spade_a_spade]

If you got the right gear it makes it so much easier. Cheers Alister.

[@kopenhagenkid]

Great video

[@kiwifarmernz]

Thanks!

[@azamyahmad]

Hello Sir absolutely loved watching your lifestyle countryside overthere, and you doing an excellent great job, lovely content vloggs as always .. keep up a great work, thank you for sharing another fabulous beautiful upload, take care stay safe .. TQSM from Mtl Cdn

[@kiwifarmernz]

Thanks very much for your kind words

[@garymadden2656]

Great video Alastair you will be a happy man when that’s finished 👌

[@colinbannerman892]

Good one mate. You do a great job on that sort of stuff especially on your own.

[@kiwifarmernz]

Thanks Colin. it has its challenges.

[@rigger314]

Love the variety in your video's

[@kiwifarmernz]

Thanks mate. I'm glad.

[@brendont1082]

Hi Alistair great to see the water supply system coming along for you

[@shabbirballim5535]

For one man to accomplish so much. Its amazing. Hopefully the water system works well and fulfills your requirements. Shabbir South Africa

[@kiwifarmernz]

Thanks Mate. It will make a big difference.

[@regbyrne4237]

Great job well done.Good improvement to farm.

[@kiwifarmernz]

Thanks, sure will be.

[@markdonnelly7225]

Hi I like your video

[@thenewaquarist6318]

Excellent thoughts. Great work brother. All your efforts are to make ur animals more comfortable and much happier

[@kiwifarmernz]

Thanks Ram especially when it's 30 plus degrees

[@thenewaquarist6318]

@@kiwifarmernz here in India... At our place, summer temperatures may reach up to 50ⁿc. Usually summers easily reach 45ⁿc brother

[@kiwifarmernz]

@@thenewaquarist6318 wow that's hot

[@Blacky-NZ]

Looking good, you need a trenching spade. Interesting the troughs we have the inlets on the wall of the trough.

[@kiwifarmernz]

We do have a spade bucket but its not that great in the hard rocks.

[@adrian2984]

Nice all around skills you got biit of farming engineering with water systems infrastructure works for water on your farm. Farming is not always about stock work, maintenance is just as important on the farm.

[@kiwifarmernz]

Thanks mate. That's what I love about this job. The variety, and I will give anything a go.

[@adrian2984]

@@kiwifarmernz Nice you have a good education from Lincoln with a lot of hands on skills doing the work yourself with that kind of work safe reliances and you will be better off with the construction skills you got..kiwi know how keep it up mate.

[@adrian2984]

L)

[@AndrewM67]

Looking good 👍

[@GC-ol6ih]

Love watching your videos. You've been busy. My husband's family had the family farm for three generations. Unfortunately it got sold by his father. Best wishes to you in these very trying times.

[@kiwifarmernz]

Thanks, that's a bugger. Its interesting times.

[@markdonnelly7225]

Hi i like your video

[@ronaldlucas5360]

I enjoyed the video 👌

[@kiwifarmernz]

Yay! Thank you!

[@edelm6062]

Very interesting system, can't wait to see the next video.

[@kiwifarmernz]

Thanks Mate

[@deedawson6074]

Give that man a beer.

[@kiwifarmernz]

Need one today it's hot 🔥 here.

[@markgray1119]

Hi Alistair, it was 36 deg in Brisbane, humid as buggery ( lol ), felt like 42 according to the different apps on my ph

[@mikeydeath8643]

Hey man been watching with misses and she would love to see how u teach you're dogs/training nights. If you are looking for ideas for some videos

[@kiwifarmernz]

Thanks for watching. Yep I hope to do a vid on this sometime.

[@denethelning8271]

get that bloody tank fenced off eh!!

[@Dozerthefarmer]

Hey mate. I’m really enjoying your videos and awesome to see the views from the top. I am just wondering why you don’t put the trough half under each side of the fence? It would save 1 trough and due to being a beef farm you would have less drain around water during the days. Unless you have a couple hundred head in the paddock.

[@Dozerthefarmer]

You know what your doing too. I used to be in charge of water in the farmlands store I worked at and was in charge of redoing entire systems.

[@kiwifarmernz]

Thanks Mate. We have bigger mobs so need a trough in each paddock. Say 1000 ewes and or 100 cows with calves.

[@Dozerthefarmer]

@@kiwifarmernz fair enough mate. Keep the videos coming.

[@simon-vy4jm]

Hey there enjoy the channel, used to shear in that shed years ago, ever thought about a mountain bike track on the hill for extra income

[@kiwifarmernz]

Wow thats cool. We have but its hard to make it pay.

[@zk-art5453]

@@kiwifarmernz caught between a hard place, if you don't you will never know, if you do maybe it would .. cattle stops where a fence is in the way? too much competition with Port Hills?

[@kiwifarmernz]

@@zk-art5453 yea people don't want to pay when there is heaps of good free MTB tracks around here.

[@patrickaherne3598]

Solid work! Hope you guys didn't get washed away from the rains we've heard about all the way in California?

[@kiwifarmernz]

no we didn't, that was more top of the North Island.

[@robertsndral7376]

👍🇳🇴

[@popmccoy3454]

👍👍🍺🍺

[@markmeredith5521]

My lambs weighed 46kg live weight,averaged £2.36/kg ....so £108/lamb. Trade is tricky tho. Very selective my buddies came to £72 for 33kg. The stores are dearer than that. People appear to have run out of money. Electricity,gas,water also mortgages up again today. Nurses on strike, teachers,ambulance drivers,posties...no one very happy. I see it v wet in Auckland,very unseasonal. Getting on well with the water system🙂

[@kiwifarmernz]

Thanks Mark. The store price is well out of kilter to the prime price which is strange. They had it bad up there. It sure is strange times and only going go get worse.

[@thebighectares]

Do you guys get paid off live weight or were these ewe lambs sold store? We're sending about a load of 40-45kg finished lambs tomorrow and we'll be lucky to get $130 NZD per head. Price has bees absolutely hammered since about November here.

[@duncanbrown8058]

Why using galvanised fittings instead of plastic?

[@kiwifarmernz]

What I had on hand and what pggw water suppled me.

[@KiwiJim13]

👀🙄🐾👍