Rolling Water Container.

1. c-dub
   July 1st, 2007 at 1:15 am

   There's something about the design of this that irks me: it's really inefficient, because the thing is essentially a 50 kg. wheel. The rolling inertia is much higher than that of, say, a small wagon, so the person pulling it is working much harder: they aren't just moving the water horizontally across the ground, they're also spinning it around and around, to no benefit.

   Otherwise, it's a very elegant idea. It's cheap to manufacture, low-tech, apparently durable, and doesn't have any fussy little parts to break off. Quite brilliant.

2. Bryan
   July 1st, 2007 at 6:45 am

   I suppose they had to sacrifice some efficiency and ease-of-use for durability cheapness. I hate having to do that, but sometimes it's gotta be done.
   Still, it's better than hauling buckets of water.
   Most of the farm that I live on doesn't have running water and having to haul four five-gallon buckets of water out to the pigs every day really sucks. Hey, maybe I should get one of these things!

3. Bryan
   July 1st, 2007 at 6:47 am

   Uh, "durability AND cheapness" is what I meant to say.

4. toby
   July 1st, 2007 at 8:30 am

   we had something extremely similar to this about 15 years ago for carrying water to our holiday caravan,

5. Dan
   July 1st, 2007 at 9:30 am

   Pu a handle on it and they can roll their lawns.

6. Alex
   July 1st, 2007 at 11:38 am

   It's probably better than lugging a bucket of water. Once you get the wheel going (and assuming that it's full, so the water don't slosh around), I think it's not that much work.

   I agree with c-dub that it's actually a very elegant solution.

7. skh.pcola
   July 1st, 2007 at 11:49 am

   I hope that the plastic isn't clear. Otherwise, that is some dirty-looking H2O.

8. aware
   July 1st, 2007 at 12:14 pm

   ever been gobsmacked by a water butt pump? this guy has.

   i went to the "lawn roller" link and found this in a sidebar:

   (26-05-07)
   Water Butt Pump
   "Can I just say that I have been absolutely gobsmacked at the excellent standard of delivery service displayed by your company. I ordered this bit of kit yesterday afternoon and it arrived mid-morning today.
   Very impressive!.

   Many thanks....I will return"

   Mr A Clark
   Dorset

9. Anita
   July 1st, 2007 at 4:55 pm

   I actually thought it WAS a lawn roller at first ... seemed very strange to be rolling the desert, but could work nicely for leveling a beach volleyball court of creating a pseudo-clay tennis court.

10. Homr Jay
    July 3rd, 2007 at 1:22 am

    @ C-dub

    I don't think it acts like a 50kg wheel since the water is not a solid. When you begin to spin the drum the water inside will not be spining, it will be more like pulling a cart with a bucket of water and light wheels. (the water will act as it's own bearing) only after the pulling the drum for a while the water will spin, but by that time you would have overcome the iniertia of the water. So I dont think its actually as inneficiant as it may look.

11. mmmark
    July 3rd, 2007 at 12:47 pm

    This would be much more efficient if there were a hard plastic 2" diameter cylinder on the rope in the middle of the wheel. The tube could rotate as the wheel turns, acting like a bearing where the rope now touches the wheel. The wheel would revolve much easier, with less chance of the young man just dragging his load, pulling against the sand.

12. Kim H.
    July 4th, 2007 at 7:33 pm

    Where do I buy one of these? My sister is pregant and she can not carry the buckets from the well to the Trailer. She goes up North every weekend so it would be put to good use. I think she would need some kind of siphon(SP) also.

    Thanks,
    Kim H.

13. Keengardener
    June 18th, 2008 at 6:33 am

    This is a great idea and could help many people in countries where water is difficult to transport.

14. joe
    September 18th, 2008 at 1:10 pm

    wer can i get these drums from...i want to give to the poor pll i c everyday

15. Bill Milmoe
    July 19th, 2009 at 6:42 pm

    Well the idea is good! Isn't that what wagons etc are good for?

    The problems I see are the rope moves around the inside increasing friction and shortening the life of the rope.

    The container is not one currently in common production so more costly to produce.

    The container is rolling on the ground trampling all plants in its paths and risking puncture on all objects in the path.

    Some ideas are best to not implement.

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