Zach McCarragher’s water trailer is runner-up in the simple category of Farmers Weekly’s annual Inventions Competition.

To provide water for livestock in fields with no mains supply, Zach McCarragher from County Armagh built a nifty drinking trailer.

It’s constructed around an angle-iron chassis that carries two IBCs mounted inline – giving a 2,000-litre total capacity – which are piped to a 70-litre automatic drinker with ball cock positioned at the rear.

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This is slotted into a dropped section of frame so that the top of the drinker is below the base of the supply tanks, which makes sure the full capacity is used.

The outfit sits on six-stud stub axles and has a full-length drawbar with an adjustable jack at the front.

It’s also been coated with machinery enamel paint to help make it last.

He put the trailer together in his spare time and the build cost was about £1,100.