“Before we left on our recent road trip, we wanted to have a system in place to water the chickens so the neighbor who would be collecting the eggs wouldn’t have to deal with our problematic hanging waterers.
I’d been planning such a system for some time.
All I can say is, “We should have done this sooner!”
First, I built a stand for the water tank. The new waterer would be gravity fed, so I needed a bit of elevation. We might also want to mount the waterer inside the coop, so the tank stand needed to be high enough to feed into the coop, but low enough that we could collect rainwater off the coop roof. This stand is just under 3′ tall. The ends and top are stand-alone units that bolt together.
I nailed on the side braces because I ran out of bolts. (Everything but the 4×4’s was scrap material.) It’s probably overbuilt, but 55 gals of water isn’t light…
