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Re: RC: Non-freezing strategies (was Buckets)



Lif,
We're using a propane tank heater in one of ours. The small camper size 
bottle lasts about 3 days. We don't usually have as long sustained cold as 
we're having right now, so I'm also using it to melt snow to keep water in 
the tank. I let my hose get buried under the ice & snow :-( .
Nancy Mitts

>From: Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>
>To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
>Subject: RC:  Non-freezing strategies (was Buckets)
>Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 08:22:52 -0700
>
>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?
>
>Sometimes the ice is 4" to 6" and even thicker on my troughs.  I have set
>up second troughs right next to the first ones to put the ice chunks in -
>an incredible amount of water is wasted by throwing ice on the ground (and
>I don't have a lot of water to spare!).  By the end of our coldest part of
>the winter, my ice troughs are filled and overflowing with ice chunks, even
>if it has thawed a bit during the day and the horses have drunk some of the
>water.  This is not the greatest solution!
>
>Lif Strand
>Quemado NM  USA
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