Hauling water
Fiver owners like to talk about the advantages of having a pickup for a tow vehicle. One of the ways I use my pickup is hauling water when I am dry camped for extended periods. I picked up a potable water grade poly barrel at a water bottling plant some time back & fitted it with a faucet. I made a wooden cradle to keep it from rolling around in the truck bed.
When I’m towing, the barrel stays forward, behind the cab. But when I need to bring in water, I’ll usually move it to the rear for convenient access. Because of my high clearance 4x4 truck and the added height of the cradle, I almost always am able to use gravity to siphon water from the barrel into my holding tank. I carry a drill pump as a backup. — Jerry Brown
posted by jerryriverguy at
2:45 PM
3 Comments:
So how do you move the water barrel when you need to tow. Looks like it would need to be emptied forst?
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Anonymous, at 5:26 PM
Yup. Water is heavy. Sometimes I have to dump what's left after I fill the onboard tank so that I can move the barrel around.
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jerryriverguy, at 10:02 PM
I would be worried about a panic stop and the drum full of water doing some serious damage to the cab. I bought and mounted with straps a 65 gallon water tank that sits in the bed of my custom one ton deck.
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coal, at 5:09 PM
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