"dave or stella @ stejonda" wrote in
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In message , Mary Fisher
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Proper butts can be connected with properly fitted hoses so that when one
is full the water will go to the next, and so on.

My garden slopes upwards away from the house. Tired of carrying cans of
water up the garden I've mounted two barrels next to the gutter down-pipe
but raised higher than usual (and need to be another 6-9 inches higher
with hindsight). Then I have another barrel at normal stand height off the
ground 2/3 of the way up the garden (around 35ft away). The three barrels
are connected by two syphons made from lengths of hose.

While watering the strawberries this evening it was a nice feeling that
the water filling the can was being brought uphill by gravity.

As long as you're doing something and you're happy with the aesthetics of
the device and it works that's fine.

In some ways I'm idle, I admit it :-)

Mary