Small victories can sometimes be incredibly sweet.  I’ve been using a water storage tank from Badger Co. since last fall, positioning it next to the drinking trough that the sheep use.  Once I start moving sheep to graze new sections every day, this system will no longer make sense.  I’ll need to keep the storage tank at the high point of the field and run a hose to the stock tank in with the sheep.  But I’ve been stymied by this very simple project for months:  the water tank, formerly full of olive oil from Italy, has fittings with some unobtainable metric pipe thread, and I had no idea how to adapt it to garden hose.  The project became slightly (but only slightly) more impossible when Bravo chewed on the fittings.

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I had been trying to solve this problem with wishful procrastination, but yesterday I convinced myself that I would spend half my waking hours this summer carting water around if I didn’t find a solution in the very near future.  I took my dog-chewed fittings to a local hardware store and threw myself on the mercy of a helpful-looking employee.  After declaring the project impossible, he found what I needed:

  • A 2″ to 2″ Fernco rubber coupling,
  • A 2″ to ¾” PVC pipe thread adapter, and
  • A brass ¾” pipe-to-garden hose adapter.
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Assembled on the tank,

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And finally the garden hose:

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I’m still slightly giddy from having crossed this off my list of insurmountable obstacles.