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Central Kansas | I'm thinking about replacing a few old waterers in a feedlot setting with tire tanks to gain a little more holding capacity. The current waterers sit on a concrete slab with a 9 inch tube going down 4ft that the water line and electric line comes up through. The easiest would be to just cover the 9 inch tube and run the water line up through the concrete in the bottom of the tank, put on a float valve and call it good. I'm thinking of putting a 3 foot piece of 12 inch diameter PVC pipe in the center of the tank and putting concrete around it. Then I would bring the water line up and out the side of the PVC to a float valve. This would allow me to bring the electric line up through the cap of the PVC and go to an outlet/yardlight on a pole next to the tank. My question is would the ground heat coming up through the 9 inch tube be enough to keep the water line from freezing? I'm in central Kansas and we usually get a few degrees below zero at least a few times every winter. My other question is if I just cut a couple holes in the sidewall of the tire to drink from and covered the center instead of cutting the sidewall out would that help keep the water from freeing over? These are 800 R 38 tires, so not huge tanks. Maybe I'm overthinking it, but if anyone has any thoughts or ideas I'd appreciate it. | |
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Tire tank question
