Good idea. I absolutely agree on the "getting older" part. Simplification and minimal maintenance is so important. Even if it isnt because we are getting older, time is precious and the less time you are doing this, the more time you can do other things!
That's funny when I change out my frost free hydrants my hole's are 6 ft deep. Make sure you pull the hose out of your stock tank otherwise it will siphoned back into your hydrant.
Love these frost-free hydrants my first experience was 30 years ago. And I just installed one this past summer for my greenhouse and raised bed garden so I didn't have to stretch a hose all the way from the house up to the Garden area. Convenient easy to install and works wonderful.
@@davidburchfield2720 That would defeat the purpose of this type of hydrant. They have a weep hole underground to drain the water out of the pipe so they can't freeze when they are off.
I love the cows, they’re so funny and make my day. Danny makes everything look so easy, he’s a great teacher. These are the kinds of things we should have been taught in school not the crap they taught us and the kids these days. If we kept school to reading and math, the rest of school should have been real life lessons like this. Thank you always for sharing.
We learned seeing, cooking, light construction, checkbook maintenance, and some farming. They had me in the office working so i got some office skills too. Today kids learn very little of any of it. I worry about them and the future sometimes.
If moms had stayed-at-home instead of letting schools do the babysitting, parents would've had time and energy to be involved in their children's subjects, both at home, and involved at school, even some, and would've stopped the stupidity of no child left behind, and commoncore. The enemy had an agenda and got it done.
During the years that I homeschooled my children they learned the academics as well as Basic Gardening, Auto Mechanics, Carpentry, Animal Husbandry, Cooking full meals/Baking Canning Sewing complete garments Laundry Financial stewardship/Budgeting Childcare Crafts of choice Our lives were so busy/fulfilling and my grown children ranging from 25-39 yrs of age are all productive/capable adults who can be self sufficient, which is a HUGE BLESSING to this Mama!!
From Indiana, make sure you put plenty of gravel in the bottom and around the pump. That will make the water move away from the hydrant and won't let it suck dirt into the water. It also helps with freezing.
“I must have buried that deeper than I thought” “Or either you’re not there yet” 🤣 You guys are so much like my hubby and I when we do chores together!! 😂 Love to watch y’all working together on projects! ❤️
The moment the video started, the cows were definitely aware you were around. When you shared "that's what happens when you have well-fed cows" that made me giggle, as when my chickens hear me outside, just walking and/or working outside, they run to their door wondering what I have, and they too are well-fed. But, they also provide food for our needs. Year one, pullets, so we were happy when we learned they would lay eggs through their first winter. Every morning I make sure to say "Thank you ladies" Great video on the water pipes. We live in NH and every year we have to turn the water off before the freezing temps arive. Thank you for sharing.
I bought the very same Frost Free Hydrants for my homestead from Amazon after that Christmas Freeze. The delivery date wasn't until Jan 4th and they are here now to install. All my outside faucets froze (but didn't burst) even tho they were well insulated. I added several outside water lines/faucets to different areas of my homestead last year for convenience to water animals and to have access to water garden areas with raised beds & containers when I finish installing my auto-watering system. When I was digging my trenches for the water lines I buried them 2 ft deep preparing for the additional cold for GSM. My frost line is 7 inches in my area but to save possible FUTURE freezing, I decided to go deeper. While I had trenches dug, it was easier to dig them deeper than to have to dig up & find leaks later WISHING I had gone deeper. I also drew diagrams of WHERE I PUT these new water lines showing the "T's" & "Elbows" that went to other areas so I would KNOW where the new water lines were located. My late husband KNEW where all water lines were but I didn't and much time was spent (and wasted) trying to find all the lines he had installed years ago. You always THINK you will remember where the lines are & which way you T'd or elbowed to go in another direction but I KNOW my memory fails me sometimes being 66 yrs old! LOL! I also added SHUT OFF VALVES before each faucet to be able to shut off water supply in case I had a problem with ONE faucet (and not others), which I did with this winter freeze. Saves from having to go to the pump house & shut off main water line shut-off valve, too. I did have one faucet that actually blew off the faucet itself that I had used that standard PVC glue. I had read that with freezing sometimes the pipes will expand enough to break the glue at joints & once contracted back after the thawing could cause slow leaks or completely disconnect seal of the glue, especially if using bell end Sch 40 PVC, couplings or other joint types. They will eventually weaken further over time causing complete failure of the seals. I don't ever want to have to worry about freezing pipes or having to scurry around trying to ensure pipes/faucets are insulated well enough not to burst. I did also find that PVC pipe, joints/couplings AND GLUE are almost impossible to find when we have these unexpected freezes in our area & many people experience busted lines. Hardware stores in rural areas don't stock enough supplies for freezes like we just had. Even Big Box stores were out of a lot of items. It is just such a rare event for us to have such hard freezes here in coastal AL that it takes everyone off guard. What I have done and now planning for the future ahead is to do what some consider OVER-KILL (for our area) but I KNOW WHAT IS COMING & won't be caught off guard again. It cost a bit more now to make these changes but in the future when these events occur, there may not be supplies available or AFFORDABLE, and then what are people going to do? EXCELLENT VIDEO and very timely for those of us in the deep south that rarely experience such frigid cold.
Danny, they sell faucets that are frost free for your house too. That's the first thing we did was installed them on our house after we purchased them. They're really easy to do and might be easier to replace your faucets on the house instead of removing them. Our frost line is 32 inches. But we always go deeper to be on the safe side. Our sewer lines are even buried deeper too. Much Love from our family to your family 💞
My husband put these in last spring on the faucets that he ran from the house out to chicken area and to the garden. They are working great and we don’t have to worry about the heat strips. This coming spring he is going to run another line with a faucet to the greenhouse. You will love having them.
As far as the spigots on the outside of our house here up north- we have a valve inside that we drain the exterior piece so it doesn’t freeze and break.
Congratulations on your new freeze faucets! Here in Mesa County, CO. we have to buy the 5ft-6ft faucets because our freeze line is lower than your 1ft freeze line at Deep South. In parts of Siberia, they can't even put pipes underground or they will break. As we speak, my iPhone surveillance device (aka "smart" phone) tells me that it is -57°F in Yakutsk, the world's coldest big city. Deep South Homestead is one of about a dozen RUclips channels I follow to see how people live all around the world. Most Americans are wussies compared to many other people in the world who are forced by their environments to live tougher lives than we have it here. Interestingly, most of them treat their animals with love just as you and we do. The people there have to work hard during their 4-months summers to put all the grass into their barns for feeding their cattle in winter. It gets as cold as -5°F inside their cattle barns in winter. But since the cattle are dry, out of the wind, and are adequately fed, they do just fine. Inside their houses, they have homemade concrete and brick wood/coal burning stoves to keep their homes warm in the winter. I'm 78, and the older I get, the more interested I become in animal and plant husbandry as it's been done around the world for centuries. God put us here to be good stewards. I've noticed all good stewards are animal and plant lovers. May God bless and protect Deep South Homestead and all who dwell there! 🙏🙏
We just did this 2 months ago!. My son-in-law helped me to install an irrigation system so that I don’t have to spend 2+ hours a day watering the garden. We are originally from the North, so we put in 7 of them. Now I have water in the garden, the chicken house, and the future high tunnel. And we don’t have to worry about them freezing,
Up here in NE Georgia we build a form around our hydrants and pour cement to help stabilize them. We also drive a fence post beside it and tie the pipe to it. The cement keeps from washing the soil away under the spigot. Your gonna love these.
Good idea! I've been surprised over the past few yrs seeing the southern parts having freezing issues ( ie:TX the other winter). Being since I've only lived in Pa I assumed our way of building was the standard across the country. So happy to see you guys giving yourselves the peace of mind
Those outside yard hydrant are really good. Wise move on you putting them in. We did it last year. Installed it like you did. Making things easier on yourselves is best. We are in our upper 60’s.
Great idea on adding a little tube. I live up by the Canadian border and the hydrants here are at least 4 feet deep. I seen some fellows also cut a hole in a bucket and slide the bucket over the elbow and fill it with rocks too. Anyway, I reckon you’ve been thankful you did this work. Thank for the video.
@deepsouthhomestead a T-post works great to support your frost-free hydrant… also they make a frost free faucet for under the house. We are in a freezing area
I find these videos interesting because of the different depths of frost line around the country. Here in Iowa it's 4+ feet so my water lines are at least 6' deep. That means I have 10' hydrants. I had to replace a cracked hydrant in March 2019 and that was a muddy mess 6' down trying not to fall on my rear as I made the repairs. Thanks for the viewpoint from your area.
Wow, amazing work on the farm! We don't have that issue on our little homestead in Hawaii. It's so fun documenting our lives though, lots of ups and downs haha
I live up north in Nebraska and have never had a problem with frozen water pipes. I friend nurse of mine moved down south in Texas and was amazed at how she could get a cheaper house brand new in a nice neighborhood. Come to find out it's because the building codes don't have to take the precautions that we have to take up north. Down south they place water pipes in the ceilings of the house. Down here we place our water pipes in the basement where they are protected.Our outdoor faucets have shut off values on the inside of the house so we drain and shut them off in the winter.
We have to dig at least 6’ down in my part of the country for our frost free hydrants-also don’t let your hoses be in the water and turn your hydrant off as it will syphon out the water from your stock tanks! Also, don’t forget to really drain the hoses used. Water will freeze quickly in them to! Messing with hoses to water livestock in -35 degrees just a few weeks ago was tricky!!Just an FYI!!
all the plumbing in my home (i live alone) is pvc along the ceiling the main from the well is under ground to a hydrant like yours , then a food grade hose up the inside of the wall to the ceiling pipes , I disconnect from the hydrant and the whole system drains by opening sink taps etc .Was gone during -5°F drained the house before I left , NO busted pipes . I used "U" bolts to hook hydrant to a "T" post
Danny you are so wise & correct- fix & correct problems now when young as boy I have learnt it only gets harder the older you get. We are very lucky here in Sub-Tropical Queensland as we do not freeze & if we ever do it would be Good-Bye World. Great video it was extremely interesting & your knowledge is beyond belief. Cheers Denise- Australia
I always install a short piece of rubber hose between the PVC and the faucet. Reason being if it gets bumped it won’t crack the PVC fitting and cause a leak.
@deepsouthhomestead i followed the way to plant peach pits in feb i put old leaves in bottom of a pot put soil the seeds and more soil on top let's see if they grow
your welfare cows are so sweet! i know, i've got a whole collection I serve. i helped put in my friends home in northern NM, the frost line was 4' at 9,500ft elevation. had to be finish by hand and shovel. frost free is the way to go, especially when you are away and the expected, unexpected weather we will all have. DANNY you are the best teacher. thank you!
I loved our frost free hydrants! My biggest complaint was leaking after a few years and having to repair/rebuild the blasted things. All of ours were at water troughs with floats and SO awesome to just shut them off when we got the rare freezes. I finally gave up and went to PEX and just use a small air compressor to blow the lines out to the troughs. Pain in the butt, for sure. I have 11 of the hydrants that need to be rebuilt. Having extra "guts" on hand definitely ain't a bad thing. Definitely an awesome thing to have to make life easier!! After this winter, I'm looking forward to getting them repaired and at least a few back in.
@6:52 Hattiesburg,(MS) hardware store. Just 😂teasing, I know three’ probably more than one hardware in Hattiesburg . And I Learns from this channel that hard freezes come to the southern half of MS
Hey Danny. Those frost free hydrants are awesome. We are sandy too & wrapped the drain hole in that cheap landscape fabric from Walmart. Just enough to filter what might try to go in there 😉
My 7 month old one just like that “broke” out in the garden during our first north Mississippi cold snap. I removed all my drip irrigation from it and had it turned off. I had left the brass splitter screwed on, but open and drained. Faucet was off. I didn’t go to the garden for a week since we didn’t have anything growing outside. When I did go try to get a bucket of water for some inside plants, I couldn’t hook my hose up. The brass double ended mail threaded piece had broke off level with the blue steel lip. They refused to warranty it. I’m replacing my “new” faucet with the red ones. I can’t remove the inside piece of brass and I’m not giving them money on a replacement part. They claimed I voided the warranty by leaving an open splitter on the faucet
We use similar freeze proof hydrants. One thing we also use is how long ago quit using the Fossetts with washers inside them for outside applications are use bowler ball valves now they cost a lot more but I don’t ever have to replace them. We live in an area where there was a lot of underground mining and from the mining it would bring up a lot of sediment in the waterlines. And I was replacing faucets almost monthly sometimes
Up there in Sneedville Tennessee it gets cold like that you have to cover your spickets… I just put hay underneath that cup that goes over your spicket..
Great insight! It's the simple things that slip our minds when setting things up, but thinking long term is a great endeavor. Something temporary is one thing. Not having to redo something later though is worth a few extra dollars and a few extra minutes of time. I believe anything I put together from now on I'll keep that in mind. Also putting things like a water faucet where I don't have to bend over when my back may be gripping could be helpful. 😎
Danny, I put a patch of weed barrier down over the pea gravel before I cover with dirt. That helps keep the soil/sand from percolating down in to the gravel. I line the hole too with weed barrier, again to keep soil or sand from leaching into the gravel.
I have several frost free hydrants around my farm I learned the hard way about what will happen if you leave a water hose hooked on and it froze that night went to water cattle the next morning there were icicles all over the hydrant it had busted
We have frost-free that is attached to the spigot near the top, here in far north California. It has the drain at the top, not the bottom in the ground. So if you want the water on just a little, it's too little for this frost free spigot and it drains out near the handle instead of going into your hose and over to your plant where you thought you wanted to water. My husband hates them. But, it's the law. He is a general contractor and says California has regulated everything possible in building on the job site.
Danny.. I installed 3 of those exact hydrants approximately four years ago.. last year one froze due to the hose being left on... It took almost a month to get the rubber grommet/plunger replacement kit due to supply chain issues... Get several extra kits... Just in case.. thanks again for all the education you and Wanda provide
I am so glad you did this on video. I want to do this to run a line to my garden. And I too live in SC do yeah A+. Thank you Danny. God bless you and Ms. Wanda.
Every little thing I do on my homestead I am thinking of the future. Purchased a new log splitter a few weeks a go. I fell a few large oaks and needed one that I can split vertically. Getting old and I'm not going to break my back trying to lift logs on my old horizontal log splitter. Every decision from here on out will be based on age/ease. You and wanda keep doing what you do... love the channel!
Great advice Danny! I need to do this at my place. I have had to repair pipes in the ground where 2 pipes were buried togather. It can be a problem when they are so close togather. If you put anti backflow valves on before you connect the hose you can leave the hose connected too.
We have three of these on our property in MS. Two of them busted down the faucet seam during the freeze. They were turned off, however, we were unaware that you must unscrew the waterhose from them as well.
Someone else here said to use a lot of gravel- I agree. I’m up here near Milwaukee so we get brutal subzero cold. I generally haven’t had a problem with the hydrant freezing unless/until we have a couple weeks of sub zero. In that case I will stack straw around the hydrant and all is fine. In my area we have alot of iron in the ground which causes the deposits to collect on the hydrant. Every 8-10 years or so people in my area need their hydrants replaced because of the iron.
Oh wow I didn’t understand why a clean blowout of my elbow and pipe made a clean separation. Now I know. Thank you, it was the blue rain or shine glue I used. Ouch I used it again. Well at least I can change it out this spring with the red mp glue.
I’ve seen some northern folks install these faucets. What they do is sink a 4x4 post in the ground and concrete it in, and then they clamp their frost-free faucet to the post. Seemed like a great solution. Won’t your re-bar wobble in your sand too?
Danny, get a t-post for the other ones you will be installing. You need to dig the hole deeper so the stone is below the pipe deeper. then put some plastic on top of the stone then put your dirt on top of the plastic. The plastic will stop the dirt from filtering into the stone. P.S. Go to Tractor Supply or your local hardware will cost half what Amazon is asking.
Well done Danny, I lready picked me some hydrates up , I agree with you, as we get older we have to work smarter. I have a new TYM Tractor but I know my Farmall Cubs and the AV will be more suited for gardening.
Thank you Danny and Wanda I've been wanting to put in them kind of water speakits... and it's worth it this past freeze had some pipes bust.. thanks for that tip for pipe glue and Brass elbow & drain tube..🙏❤🕊💪🏼💞👨👩👧👧👨👩👧👦💕🌻🛐
Looking good Danny. BUT I use schedule 80 for my elbows. And you'll still need to disconnect the hose's from the faucet's before freezing. Drain can't work if Hoses are there. Good work though.
Tommy is from Ohio and had to learn the hard way that we do freeze down here in TX. Luckily no pipes have busted yet but those hydrants would be great.
I have frost free hydrants coming out of my house too but I have skirting around the base of my house. You might try those too. I am up North and it got down to minus 40 here this winter.
My husband put two in years ago but they stopped working a few years ago. It is probably plunger assembly down in it that won't open so I need to dig it up. They have a youtube video on that also
We have one of those faucets and we have rebar beside it too. I don’t know if it should be hard to pull that handle up but ours is. Hurts my carpal tunnel to pull the handle up. Maybe needs oiled ~ if that’s a thing? We need to put these at the shop because our pipes already busted there this year. 😬
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I don't understand the drain hole at the bottom...doesn't that hole expose your water system to contamination?
Good idea. I absolutely agree on the "getting older" part. Simplification and minimal maintenance is so important. Even if it isnt because we are getting older, time is precious and the less time you are doing this, the more time you can do other things!
Exactly!
That's funny when I change out my frost free hydrants my hole's are 6 ft deep. Make sure you pull the hose out of your stock tank otherwise it will siphoned back into your hydrant.
Love these frost-free hydrants my first experience was 30 years ago. And I just installed one this past summer for my greenhouse and raised bed garden so I didn't have to stretch a hose all the way from the house up to the Garden area. Convenient easy to install and works wonderful.
You can get a anti-siphon device to go on that
@@davidburchfield2720 That would defeat the purpose of this type of hydrant. They have a weep hole underground to drain the water out of the pipe so they can't freeze when they are off.
This reminds me of my digging. "I just need to dig a hole right here" Six holes later... "Oh yeah, that's where I placed that"
I love the cows, they’re so funny and make my day. Danny makes everything look so easy, he’s a great teacher. These are the kinds of things we should have been taught in school not the crap they taught us and the kids these days. If we kept school to reading and math, the rest of school should have been real life lessons like this. Thank you always for sharing.
I agree with you 100%.
We learned seeing, cooking, light construction, checkbook maintenance, and some farming. They had me in the office working so i got some office skills too. Today kids learn very little of any of it. I worry about them and the future sometimes.
If moms had stayed-at-home instead of letting schools do the babysitting, parents would've had time and energy to be involved in their children's subjects, both at home, and involved at school, even some, and would've stopped the stupidity of no child left behind, and commoncore. The enemy had an agenda and got it done.
@@jennbama The FHA was removed many decades from government school to handicap our children.
During the years that I homeschooled my children they learned the academics as well as
Basic Gardening, Auto Mechanics, Carpentry, Animal Husbandry,
Cooking full meals/Baking
Canning
Sewing complete garments
Laundry
Financial stewardship/Budgeting
Childcare
Crafts of choice
Our lives were so busy/fulfilling and my grown children ranging from 25-39 yrs of age are all productive/capable adults who can be self sufficient, which is a HUGE BLESSING to this Mama!!
From Indiana, make sure you put plenty of gravel in the bottom and around the pump. That will make the water move away from the hydrant and won't let it suck dirt into the water. It also helps with freezing.
We are so sandy it's not a problem.
@@DeepSouthHomestead we are very sandy also some of our sand is like beach sand. Enough gravel is important. Have learned the hard way.
@@jackiebradley9870 I'm in Fremont Indiana, and you are correct with us being very sandy. Just like beach sand up here.
“I must have buried that deeper than I thought”
“Or either you’re not there yet” 🤣
You guys are so much like my hubby and I when we do chores together!! 😂
Love to watch y’all working together on projects! ❤️
The moment the video started, the cows were definitely aware you were around. When you shared "that's what happens when you have well-fed cows" that made me giggle, as when my chickens hear me outside, just walking and/or working outside, they run to their door wondering what I have, and they too are well-fed. But, they also provide food for our needs. Year one, pullets, so we were happy when we learned they would lay eggs through their first winter. Every morning I make sure to say "Thank you ladies"
Great video on the water pipes. We live in NH and every year we have to turn the water off before the freezing temps arive. Thank you for sharing.
I bought the very same Frost Free Hydrants for my homestead from Amazon after that Christmas Freeze. The delivery date wasn't until Jan 4th and they are here now to install. All my outside faucets froze (but didn't burst) even tho they were well insulated.
I added several outside water lines/faucets to different areas of my homestead last year for convenience to water animals and to have access to water garden areas with raised beds & containers when I finish installing my auto-watering system. When I was digging my trenches for the water lines I buried them 2 ft deep preparing for the additional cold for GSM. My frost line is 7 inches in my area but to save possible FUTURE freezing, I decided to go deeper. While I had trenches dug, it was easier to dig them deeper than to have to dig up & find leaks later WISHING I had gone deeper. I also drew diagrams of WHERE I PUT these new water lines showing the "T's" & "Elbows" that went to other areas so I would KNOW where the new water lines were located. My late husband KNEW where all water lines were but I didn't and much time was spent (and wasted) trying to find all the lines he had installed years ago. You always THINK you will remember where the lines are & which way you T'd or elbowed to go in another direction but I KNOW my memory fails me sometimes being 66 yrs old! LOL! I also added SHUT OFF VALVES before each faucet to be able to shut off water supply in case I had a problem with ONE faucet (and not others), which I did with this winter freeze. Saves from having to go to the pump house & shut off main water line shut-off valve, too. I did have one faucet that actually blew off the faucet itself that I had used that standard PVC glue. I had read that with freezing sometimes the pipes will expand enough to break the glue at joints & once contracted back after the thawing could cause slow leaks or completely disconnect seal of the glue, especially if using bell end Sch 40 PVC, couplings or other joint types. They will eventually weaken further over time causing complete failure of the seals.
I don't ever want to have to worry about freezing pipes or having to scurry around trying to ensure pipes/faucets are insulated well enough not to burst. I did also find that PVC pipe, joints/couplings AND GLUE are almost impossible to find when we have these unexpected freezes in our area & many people experience busted lines. Hardware stores in rural areas don't stock enough supplies for freezes like we just had. Even Big Box stores were out of a lot of items. It is just such a rare event for us to have such hard freezes here in coastal AL that it takes everyone off guard.
What I have done and now planning for the future ahead is to do what some consider OVER-KILL (for our area) but I KNOW WHAT IS COMING & won't be caught off guard again. It cost a bit more now to make these changes but in the future when these events occur, there may not be supplies available or AFFORDABLE, and then what are people going to do?
EXCELLENT VIDEO and very timely for those of us in the deep south that rarely experience such frigid cold.
Danny, they sell faucets that are frost free for your house too. That's the first thing we did was installed them on our house after we purchased them. They're really easy to do and might be easier to replace your faucets on the house instead of removing them. Our frost line is 32 inches. But we always go deeper to be on the safe side. Our sewer lines are even buried deeper too. Much Love from our family to your family 💞
My husband put these in last spring on the faucets that he ran from the house out to chicken area and to the garden. They are working great and we don’t have to worry about the heat strips. This coming spring he is going to run another line with a faucet to the greenhouse. You will love having them.
As far as the spigots on the outside of our house here up north- we have a valve inside that we drain the exterior piece so it doesn’t freeze and break.
We don't have those here. I had to special order these hydrants.
Good morning y’all, good idea, here in Indiana our frost line is 3’ , these hydrants work well , and a lot of folks use em !! Thanks for sharing !!
Such God-given wisdom. Another awesome video.
Congratulations on your new freeze faucets! Here in Mesa County, CO. we have to buy the 5ft-6ft faucets because our freeze line is lower than your 1ft freeze line at Deep South. In parts of Siberia, they can't even put pipes underground or they will break. As we speak, my iPhone surveillance device (aka "smart" phone) tells me that it is -57°F in Yakutsk, the world's coldest big city. Deep South Homestead is one of about a dozen RUclips channels I follow to see how people live all around the world. Most Americans are wussies compared to many other people in the world who are forced by their environments to live tougher lives than we have it here. Interestingly, most of them treat their animals with love just as you and we do. The people there have to work hard during their 4-months summers to put all the grass into their barns for feeding their cattle in winter. It gets as cold as -5°F inside their cattle barns in winter. But since the cattle are dry, out of the wind, and are adequately fed, they do just fine. Inside their houses, they have homemade concrete and brick wood/coal burning stoves to keep their homes warm in the winter. I'm 78, and the older I get, the more interested I become in animal and plant husbandry as it's been done around the world for centuries. God put us here to be good stewards. I've noticed all good stewards are animal and plant lovers. May God bless and protect Deep South Homestead and all who dwell there! 🙏🙏
We just did this 2 months ago!. My son-in-law helped me to install an irrigation system so that I don’t have to spend 2+ hours a day watering the garden. We are originally from the North, so we put in 7 of them. Now I have water in the garden, the chicken house, and the future high tunnel. And we don’t have to worry about them freezing,
Up here in NE Georgia we build a form around our hydrants and pour cement to help stabilize them. We also drive a fence post beside it and tie the pipe to it. The cement keeps from washing the soil away under the spigot. Your gonna love these.
I love our anti freeze hydrants, we have 3 of them on our property. They are so nice not to have to worry about the outdoor water.
Good idea! I've been surprised over the past few yrs seeing the southern parts having freezing issues ( ie:TX the other winter). Being since I've only lived in Pa I assumed our way of building was the standard across the country. So happy to see you guys giving yourselves the peace of mind
Thank you for showing the installation of this. I am sure it will help many. Bless you both.
Those outside yard hydrant are really good. Wise move on you putting them in. We did it last year. Installed it like you did. Making things easier on yourselves is best. We are in our upper 60’s.
Thank you for posting this content. Great ideas for we southerners !! And love that you showed and explained the installation. 👍
Its really good idea for my home, thank you
Job well done Danny and Wanda. I’m working on making everything simple as possible also. Thank you. ❤❤
The cows in the background hollering at you. Had me laughing so hard 😂😂😂
We have 9 of these. They work great. We use a t post or wooden post for extra support.
Working smarter not harder thank you Danny and Wanda
Great idea on adding a little tube. I live up by the Canadian border and the hydrants here are at least 4 feet deep. I seen some fellows also cut a hole in a bucket and slide the bucket over the elbow and fill it with rocks too. Anyway, I reckon you’ve been thankful you did this work. Thank for the video.
Taking your advice. I'm 44 and will be here for the duration. Gotta take the work out of work
I love seeing y'all make advancements to make things easier for you as you age! Good job!
@deepsouthhomestead a T-post works great to support your frost-free hydrant… also they make a frost free faucet for under the house. We are in a freezing area
Lowes sells the hydrate for around $60 way cheaper than online. I have them on my farm. Only kind of faucet to install
I find these videos interesting because of the different depths of frost line around the country. Here in Iowa it's 4+ feet so my water lines are at least 6' deep. That means I have 10' hydrants. I had to replace a cracked hydrant in March 2019 and that was a muddy mess 6' down trying not to fall on my rear as I made the repairs. Thanks for the viewpoint from your area.
So smart! So much better to adjust to the changing weather patterns and reduce the work 👍👍
I just love watching u work. You do pure quality work that will last a lifetime. I appreciate that.
Wow, amazing work on the farm! We don't have that issue on our little homestead in Hawaii. It's so fun documenting our lives though, lots of ups and downs haha
I live up north in Nebraska and have never had a problem with frozen water pipes. I friend nurse of mine moved down south in Texas and was amazed at how she could get a cheaper house brand new in a nice neighborhood. Come to find out it's because the building codes don't have to take the precautions that we have to take up north. Down south they place water pipes in the ceilings of the house. Down here we place our water pipes in the basement where they are protected.Our outdoor faucets have shut off values on the inside of the house so we drain and shut them off in the winter.
Good idea. I live in Michigan so our frost line in a lot deeper but once it’s done right you are all set.
We have to dig at least 6’ down in my part of the country for our frost free hydrants-also don’t let your hoses be in the water and turn your hydrant off as it will syphon out the water from your stock tanks!
Also, don’t forget to really drain the hoses used. Water will freeze quickly in them to! Messing with hoses to water livestock in -35 degrees just a few weeks ago was tricky!!Just an FYI!!
all the plumbing in my home (i live alone) is pvc along the ceiling the main from the well is under ground to a hydrant like yours , then a food grade hose up the inside of the wall to the ceiling pipes , I disconnect from the hydrant and the whole system drains by opening sink taps etc .Was gone during -5°F drained the house before I left , NO busted pipes . I used "U" bolts to hook hydrant to a "T" post
Great job we r need to look for the future as we get older love Fran P 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Wow Danny you got a lot of work ahead! Blessings!❤
Danny you are so wise & correct- fix & correct problems now when young as boy I have learnt it only gets harder the older you get. We are very lucky here in Sub-Tropical Queensland as we do not freeze & if we ever do it would be Good-Bye World. Great video it was extremely interesting & your knowledge is beyond belief. Cheers Denise- Australia
I always install a short piece of rubber hose between the PVC and the faucet. Reason being if it gets bumped it won’t crack the PVC fitting and cause a leak.
I love these videos Danny! I can send video to hubby so he knows exactly what I'm talking about!
@deepsouthhomestead i followed the way to plant peach pits in feb i put old leaves in bottom of a pot put soil the seeds and more soil on top let's see if they grow
your welfare cows are so sweet! i know, i've got a whole collection I serve. i helped put in my friends home in northern NM, the frost line was 4' at 9,500ft elevation. had to be finish by hand and shovel. frost free is the way to go, especially when you are away and the expected, unexpected weather we will all have. DANNY you are the best teacher. thank you!
Thank you Danny for the information
I loved our frost free hydrants! My biggest complaint was leaking after a few years and having to repair/rebuild the blasted things. All of ours were at water troughs with floats and SO awesome to just shut them off when we got the rare freezes. I finally gave up and went to PEX and just use a small air compressor to blow the lines out to the troughs. Pain in the butt, for sure. I have 11 of the hydrants that need to be rebuilt. Having extra "guts" on hand definitely ain't a bad thing. Definitely an awesome thing to have to make life easier!! After this winter, I'm looking forward to getting them repaired and at least a few back in.
I am going to get a couple of these for my new homestead.
Hi! You remind me of myself saying ....."that's interesting! Hum!" lol!
@6:52 Hattiesburg,(MS) hardware store. Just 😂teasing, I know three’ probably more than one hardware in Hattiesburg . And I
Learns from this channel that hard freezes come to the southern half of MS
Hey Danny. Those frost free hydrants are awesome. We are sandy too & wrapped the drain hole in that cheap landscape fabric from Walmart. Just enough to filter what might try to go in there 😉
My 7 month old one just like that “broke” out in the garden during our first north Mississippi cold snap. I removed all my drip irrigation from it and had it turned off. I had left the brass splitter screwed on, but open and drained. Faucet was off. I didn’t go to the garden for a week since we didn’t have anything growing outside. When I did go try to get a bucket of water for some inside plants, I couldn’t hook my hose up. The brass double ended mail threaded piece had broke off level with the blue steel lip. They refused to warranty it. I’m replacing my “new” faucet with the red ones. I can’t remove the inside piece of brass and I’m not giving them money on a replacement part. They claimed I voided the warranty by leaving an open splitter on the faucet
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and keep your videos coming please.
I use angle iron as a support , secure the pipe with a hose clamp
Farm life:) Never ends. Praying you stay safe with all the storms coming thru. We've had a rough morning but all good here. Not so much south of us.
Just got a little rain.
We use similar freeze proof hydrants. One thing we also use is how long ago quit using the Fossetts with washers inside them for outside applications are use bowler ball valves now they cost a lot more but I don’t ever have to replace them. We live in an area where there was a lot of underground mining and from the mining it would bring up a lot of sediment in the waterlines. And I was replacing faucets almost monthly sometimes
Up there in Sneedville Tennessee it gets cold like that you have to cover your spickets… I just put hay underneath that cup that goes over your spicket..
Great insight! It's the simple things that slip our minds when setting things up, but thinking long term is a great endeavor. Something temporary is one thing. Not having to redo something later though is worth a few extra dollars and a few extra minutes of time. I believe anything I put together from now on I'll keep that in mind. Also putting things like a water faucet where I don't have to bend over when my back may be gripping could be helpful. 😎
One of the first things my now ex son in law installed for the garden & stock tank was the frost free hydrants. They're worth ever penny
Nice to know about the mp6, I’ve seen the blue come loose every year somewhere in my irrigation plumbing lol. Really like that hydrant!
Danny, I put a patch of weed barrier down over the pea gravel before I cover with dirt. That helps keep the soil/sand from percolating down in to the gravel. I line the hole too with weed barrier, again to keep soil or sand from leaching into the gravel.
Good idea.
I have several frost free hydrants around my farm I learned the hard way about what will happen if you leave a water hose hooked on and it froze that night went to water cattle the next morning there were icicles all over the hydrant it had busted
Don't leave your hose hooked up . The pump can't drain if you do . They have them for the house that don't freeze.
We have frost-free that is attached to the spigot near the top, here in far north California. It has the drain at the top, not the bottom in the ground. So if you want the water on just a little, it's too little for this frost free spigot and it drains out near the handle instead of going into your hose and over to your plant where you thought you wanted to water. My husband hates them. But, it's the law. He is a general contractor and says California has regulated everything possible in building on the job site.
Excellent water solution Danny !!!
I have some like that in South Alabama. It just makes it easier!
🙏🙏🙏♥️😊👍 We have 3 foot frost . We also have to worry about Are paths where we walk We can drive the frost down deeper I have mine down 5'
Danny.. I installed 3 of those exact hydrants approximately four years ago.. last year one froze due to the hose being left on... It took almost a month to get the rubber grommet/plunger replacement kit due to supply chain issues... Get several extra kits... Just in case.. thanks again for all the education you and Wanda provide
Good morning brother!
Good morning brother I tried telling those on the west coast they were in for three waves of weather manipulation from our enemies across the Pacific.
@@DeepSouthHomestead So true
I live in jumpertown ms I’m fixing to install two of these thanks Danny didn’t know these had a drain on them just always used the ones I had
Try using a T post next to your frost free hydrant… It’s a lot stouter than rebar. That’s how we do it in Oklahoma.
I am so glad you did this on video. I want to do this to run a line to my garden. And I too live in SC do yeah A+. Thank you Danny. God bless you and Ms. Wanda.
Glad it was helpful!
Every little thing I do on my homestead I am thinking of the future. Purchased a new log splitter a few weeks a go. I fell a few large oaks and needed one that I can split vertically. Getting old and I'm not going to break my back trying to lift logs on my old horizontal log splitter. Every decision from here on out will be based on age/ease. You and wanda keep doing what you do... love the channel!
Great advice Danny! I need to do this at my place. I have had to repair pipes in the ground where 2 pipes were buried togather. It can be a problem when they are so close togather. If you put anti backflow valves on before you connect the hose you can leave the hose connected too.
Back flow would mean it will freeze
Good morning DSH. Smart
Project! Less to worry about next winter time. Stay safe up there and keep on growing 🤠
Good morning!
Thank you for the idea💡. We'll have to start adding these to our homestead.
We have three of these on our property in MS. Two of them busted down the faucet seam during the freeze. They were turned off, however, we were unaware that you must unscrew the waterhose from them as well.
Yeah it won't drain with the hose hooked up.
Someone else here said to use a lot of gravel- I agree. I’m up here near Milwaukee so we get brutal subzero cold. I generally haven’t had a problem with the hydrant freezing unless/until we have a couple weeks of sub zero. In that case I will stack straw around the hydrant and all is fine. In my area we have alot of iron in the ground which causes the deposits to collect on the hydrant. Every 8-10 years or so people in my area need their hydrants replaced because of the iron.
Seems so crazy. I never heard of them until moving to Idaho. Such a great invention cuz Lord knows, we need them here.
Blessings, julie
We have those frost free hydrants on our place. Love them!
Oh wow I didn’t understand why a clean blowout of my elbow and pipe made a clean separation. Now I know. Thank you, it was the blue rain or shine glue I used. Ouch I used it again. Well at least I can change it out this spring with the red mp glue.
Great and informative video. Thanks Danny.
If you fill a water tank with a hose hooked to that ....take the hose out of the tank. It can draw the water right back out of the tank
Thanks! Were going to be putting one of these in too.
I’ve seen some northern folks install these faucets. What they do is sink a 4x4 post in the ground and concrete it in, and then they clamp their frost-free faucet to the post. Seemed like a great solution. Won’t your re-bar wobble in your sand too?
Danny, get a t-post for the other ones you will be installing.
You need to dig the hole deeper so the stone is below the pipe deeper. then put some plastic on top of the stone then put your dirt on top of the plastic. The plastic will stop the dirt from filtering into the stone.
P.S. Go to Tractor Supply or your local hardware will cost half what Amazon is asking.
They don't sell these in my area at tractor supply.
Great video! Think i need this
Well done Danny, I lready picked me some hydrates up , I agree with you, as we get older we have to work smarter. I have a new TYM Tractor but I know my Farmall Cubs and the AV will be more suited for gardening.
Great video!
Thank you Danny and Wanda I've been wanting to put in them kind of water speakits... and it's worth it this past freeze had some pipes bust.. thanks for that tip for pipe glue and Brass elbow & drain tube..🙏❤🕊💪🏼💞👨👩👧👧👨👩👧👦💕🌻🛐
Looking good Danny. BUT I use schedule 80 for my elbows. And you'll still need to disconnect the hose's from the faucet's before freezing. Drain can't work if
Hoses are there.
Good work though.
I mention that in the video.
It's good you are thinking ahead to make things easier for yourselves as you age. It makes a difference because getting old isn't for sissies!
Tommy is from Ohio and had to learn the hard way that we do freeze down here in TX. Luckily no pipes have busted yet but those hydrants would be great.
Hello from New York City. Install frost free spigot outside the buildings. Home depot has plenty.
Not here
I have frost free hydrants coming out of my house too but I have skirting around the base of my house. You might try those too. I am up North and it got down to minus 40 here this winter.
My husband put two in years ago but they stopped working a few years ago. It is probably plunger assembly down in it that won't open so I need to dig it up. They have a youtube video on that also
I admire your vision. You seem to see beyond today. That's what my people calls their "first mind"
We have one of those faucets and we have rebar beside it too. I don’t know if it should be hard to pull that handle up but ours is. Hurts my carpal tunnel to pull the handle up. Maybe needs oiled ~ if that’s a thing?
We need to put these at the shop because our pipes already busted there this year. 😬