Advice on new cattle water toughs?

[Beefbullock]

Our current IAE hanging cattle water troughs are all starting to get thin in the bases and leak so we need to replace with some new ones.
35 x 400kg - 700kg animals in each building with mains water pipes feeding from below the ground in the building corners. What would people recommend? Concrete or Galv again. We have had 10-12 years out of the current ones but not without the occasional problem with service box / ball cock issues.

 

[Hilly]

Concrete if you can I’d say

 

[Andrew]

Concrete.

 

[Northern territory]

Cast iron baths.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Concrete....make sure it’s a forden and not a Moore

 

[Mouser]

Our current IAE hanging cattle water troughs are all starting to get thin in the bases and leak so we need to replace with some new ones.
35 x 400kg - 700kg animals in each building with mains water pipes feeding from below the ground in the building corners. What would people recommend? Concrete or Galv again. We have had 10-12 years out of the current ones but not without the occasional problem with service box / ball cock issues.

What size troughs? Concrete nearly always better unless made for certain place/shape. Biggest problems with standard ballcocks is too much water pressure from mains.

 

[Tarw Coch]

Another thumbs up for Forden concrete,

 

[mezz]

Have heard people very pleased with stainless steel troughs like this https://www.odonovaneng.ie/product/stainless-steel-water-drinker/

 

[welger]

Page concrete troughs are very good

 

[Treecreeper]

What size troughs? Concrete nearly always better unless made for certain place/shape. Biggest problems with standard ballcocks is too much water pressure from mains.

Check that you don't have low pressure valves on a mains system, or high ones on a low pressure private supply for that matter,size matters.

 

[Shane_watertrough]

Another thumbs up for Forden concrete,

Have to put you on commission i think Tarw Coch...

 

[Shane_watertrough]

Concrete....make sure it’s a forden and not a Moore

Hope your 7x3 is doing the Job!

 

[Yale]

Forden concrete.