Hauling Water??

[Polecat]

Any one ever do this? I have a several small watering holes that are now dry. The ones that still hold water are drying up. The mud surrounding them is completely covered in deer tracks, enough large ones that I placed a trail camera over it. I have a 500 gallon farm tank in a pickup bed trailer and access to a portable pump and a creek only a short distance away. I'm seriously considering doing a short shuttle operation, maybe hauling 250-300 gallons at a time, about 1,000 gals a week to give the deer a convenient place to water.

 

[farmin68]

If it's only a short distance, the deer probably already prefer the creek and it's an even shorter distance for them than it is us bi-peds.
Also, I learned a long time ago that three or four deer can make a mud flat look like the area is over populated with deer.

 

[Boone 58]

if it works, haul it is what i say.....

 

[Chaneylake]

26,000 gallons +/- equals 1 inch deep on 1 acre, just for your information

 

[Football Hunter]

haulin water to my fruit trees to keep em alive,also read somewhere that a clear running or a mud hole is just as good to a deer.Their stomachs can handle it.

 

[nbforrest#3]

Here you go.

I hauled water to my pond last year at my house. I had
4 300 gallon water tanks. The creek was only about
1/2 mile away and could fill the tanks in eleven
minutes each.

Chaney is right, I put 37,000 gallons in the pond in
2 weeks, and raised it about 2 inches. For what you are
doing it might work.