Water is the whole ballgame
Ask anyone who's chopped ice at 6 a.m.: livestock water is the chore that owns you — unless it's automated. A properly installed automatic waterer is a trench below frost line, a correctly sized water line, a concrete pad that keeps the mud away, electric for the heater, and a unit matched to your herd size. We install the whole system, not just the box.
Hooper's Excavation and Demolition installs waterers for cattle, horse, hog, and hobby operations across Central Indiana — and because we're farm people, we install them where they make sense for your rotation, not just where the trench is easy.
What a full installation includes
- Trenched water line below frost line — 4 feet down in our counties, bedded properly.
- Frost-free waterer or hydrant setting — energy-free and electric-heated units both.
- Concrete pad — sized so stock stand on concrete, not in a mudhole.
- Electric supply trenching — heater circuits run in the same mobilization.
- Tie-in — to well, rural water, or existing barn plumbing.
Pasture systems and multiple units
Running rotational grazing? We trench mainlines with multiple waterer taps and hydrants so every paddock has water. Doing several units in one mobilization is meaningfully cheaper per unit than doing them one at a time.