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| I am renting pasture on 2 places with NRCS water systems, concrete trough is their go to here. No protection needed on a 400 gal size. The one is getting to 10 years and other than repair to floats no troubles. The other just this fall.
I have several oval troughs that are the same looking material as you are showing. One could be 15 to 20 years. the last 10 in horse lot. It has a crack about 2 inchs from the top the last 5 years. Hand filled every 3 to 10 days depending. The light blue plastic has been as good as any, much better than the galvanized ones.
I have a 10 foot blue one that cracked this fall. I think from wild hogs crawling in but did not have a camera on it so cannot say for sure. The local store is not stocking the 1000 gal 10 foot trough, but could order it in for only $450 ish dollars. The one that cracked was over 10 years old, maybe 12. But it was not used for year or 2 as well.
With the wild hogs looking for water the bars for protection shown would never be enough. Considering the price as well as longevity the blue plastic has been a good value. But dealing with NRCS of course they know best.
Other than I don't have equipment to move the concrete ones I would have those on ground I own. But they may not do so good in colder climates. As this is central California. | |
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Protection for fiberglass water trough
