Recently we set up an automatic waterer on a pallet so that it could be portable. We don’t really want to put a lot of permanent infrastructure on this farm as we are just renting it, but we also like the convenience of automatic waterers for our livestock. The waterer we used was a “new” waterer that had never been used. We bought five of these waterers last summer in an auction. They are several decades old but have never been used. We have had to replace the floats as they were not in very good shape but everything else has been working fine.
We started with a standard size pallet and attached a floor to the top of it. We actually reused an old barn door and cut it to size and screwed it down. Next Scott put a piece of plywood on top of the barn door where the waterer was going to be attached.
