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South central, Mn. | I installed a 9 ft. dia. rubber tire tank this past fall and it has worked out great. Here is my original post last fall:
http://talk.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=420055&posts=1...
Took some photos this morning, granted it was only -12 and with firing with wood the evening before with an arm load of wood, it stays ice free all night, even with coldest nights of -25 it stayed open all night. On the coldest days I fire each morning with a few pieces of wood and it keeps open all day. It's a great source to get rid of old fence boards, dead elm wood, etc, keeps the wife happy by getting rid of crap wood around the farm. I figure I use about a third less wood to keep it open compared to the old cement tank. No electric or floats involved with this tank. The water source is only 10 feet away and you learn how to trickle the hose to keep full during the day. Every time you have electric, floats, valves involved you are going to have trouble sooner or later.
The other tank is a Mirra Fount and has been good since I installed it 5 years ago. I use a 500 watt heater in the water chamber and a electric heat pigtail hanging down in the pipe where the water line comes into the waterer. This morning it was frost free and granted, it is on the south side of a building so that helps.
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