Re: Non-freezing strategies (was Buckets)

["Sandy Bolinger" <bolinger@bigsky.net>]

You can build an insulated box around your trough...also...put some kind of
cover on it so a space just big enough to allow them to drink is left(very
important!)...the box can be built out of plywood with sawdust or regular
fiberglass insulation filling the space between the plywood and the
trough...works fine until you start getting into the below zero
readings...There's another kind of a system that works no matter how cold it
gets...it's a double walled water trough that is insulated by heated air
from underground...A very deep hole is dug and a 6 inch pipe goes into the
hole up to the bottom of the trough...the warmed air in the pipe fills the
space between the two walls of the trough..I was a skeptic but after weeks
of 30 below with wind and the water didn't freeze..I became a believer!

----- Original Message -----
From: Bob & Amber Roberts <mlaboure@flash.net>
To: Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>
Cc: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2000 8:41 AM
Subject: RC: Non-freezing strategies (was Buckets)


> Lif Strand wrote:
>
> > For those of us with water troughs way too far from electricity who live
in
> > less balmy climates than some RCers who are very spoiled, could people
send
> > in their strategies for keeping the water from freezing?  If those
> > strategies exist?
> >
>
> We don't have any electricity near our water trough either.  We use a 100
gal.
> tank.  In winter, we set the float valve to overflow and it keeps the
water
> trickling, thus it will not freeze.  Works extremely well for us.  We used
to
> have to chop ice on the trough before we discovered this method.
>
> Amber
>
>
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