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<blockquote data-quote="SRBeef" data-source="post: 969059" data-attributes="member: 7509"><p>Your cattle must have a reliable source of water. You can haul it to a tank every day or so but that will get old fast. </p><p></p><p>I bet you plan to build a house or cabin on it some day somewhere. If so, pick that spot and bite the bullet and have a well put in with a well-top underground pressure tank and electricity run to it, near to the house/cabin site.</p><p></p><p>Layout your pastures so that you can do rotational grazing and have lanes to a central watering point. Have water and electric lines trenched from the well/cabin site to the waterer location, pour a concrete pad, put a concrete waterer on it and you are set for life. Basically do it right the first time.</p><p></p><p>Yes it's expensive but not going to get any less so in the future. You will need water and electricity for about anything you ever want to do with the property. with current low interest rates you should be able to get a reasonable long term/low payment loan to do it. It will increase the value of your property more than what it costs to do. Lenders love to write a loan on something like this. Use a reputable well driller, not the low bid.</p><p></p><p>Depends on your future plans. I went through the same decision process on water many years ago. </p><p></p><p>It would be very helpful to have at least a general location/state in your post. Good luck.</p><p></p><p>Jim</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRBeef, post: 969059, member: 7509"] Your cattle must have a reliable source of water. You can haul it to a tank every day or so but that will get old fast. I bet you plan to build a house or cabin on it some day somewhere. If so, pick that spot and bite the bullet and have a well put in with a well-top underground pressure tank and electricity run to it, near to the house/cabin site. Layout your pastures so that you can do rotational grazing and have lanes to a central watering point. Have water and electric lines trenched from the well/cabin site to the waterer location, pour a concrete pad, put a concrete waterer on it and you are set for life. Basically do it right the first time. Yes it's expensive but not going to get any less so in the future. You will need water and electricity for about anything you ever want to do with the property. with current low interest rates you should be able to get a reasonable long term/low payment loan to do it. It will increase the value of your property more than what it costs to do. Lenders love to write a loan on something like this. Use a reputable well driller, not the low bid. Depends on your future plans. I went through the same decision process on water many years ago. It would be very helpful to have at least a general location/state in your post. Good luck. Jim [/QUOTE]
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