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| We just installed one over the weekend in a pen used for rotational grazing. We put pipe up from the bottom and a check valve. Our well and solar pump are just outside the pen. We have a float switch that simply turns off the pump when tank gets full. We used sakrete and tamped in dry in tank bottom and slowly filled the tank. The guy I bought the tank from said that he has put in dozens that way and never had one leak as long as you keep it covered with water for at least a year. I don't know how he came up with the year figure but that is what he said. We put screws around the lower bead of the tire before we tamped in the sakrete. We don't plan on moving this one. We also are going to put a post on the outside farthest away from the fence that it sits by and make a triangle out of guard rail so that cattle can't get in it and tear up center fill pipe or the switch. | |
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Installing tire water tank today....
