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Farmer Roy's Random Thoughts - I never said it was easy.
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<blockquote data-quote="Blaithin" data-source="post: 5970962" data-attributes="member: 5764"><p>Most farms here operate on free water. Either from dugouts or wells. (Both obviously cost to construct, but don't have water bills) The cost is going to be the electricity to run the pump and probably the heat to keep the pump from freezing. Pipes underneath the trough will be ok because there's usually some sort of pit dug that allows geothermal heat to come up to keep the pipes from freezing. If you can manage a true gravity feed where the pipes are fed from the creek bottom, are piped underground to the trough where it feeds into the bottom of the trough and then back into the creek, then you could avoid the pump as well.</p><p></p><p>Yes, continuous flow systems like that can work well in winter. Especially if you can direct the water away from the animals. Depending how fast you have it running will depend on what temperature it will freeze at. Unless it's at a high speed like river rapids it will start to freeze eventually. All rivers here freeze over completely, as an example. But since farmers are checking stock daily, as long as you knock the ice back from the edges and surface whenever you're out there it will keep it open and the chunks will melt. If I didn't have a de icer in my trough I'd probably have 5 inches of ice to break open every morning and the chunks would be too big to melt back into the water.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blaithin, post: 5970962, member: 5764"] Most farms here operate on free water. Either from dugouts or wells. (Both obviously cost to construct, but don't have water bills) The cost is going to be the electricity to run the pump and probably the heat to keep the pump from freezing. Pipes underneath the trough will be ok because there's usually some sort of pit dug that allows geothermal heat to come up to keep the pipes from freezing. If you can manage a true gravity feed where the pipes are fed from the creek bottom, are piped underground to the trough where it feeds into the bottom of the trough and then back into the creek, then you could avoid the pump as well. Yes, continuous flow systems like that can work well in winter. Especially if you can direct the water away from the animals. Depending how fast you have it running will depend on what temperature it will freeze at. Unless it's at a high speed like river rapids it will start to freeze eventually. All rivers here freeze over completely, as an example. But since farmers are checking stock daily, as long as you knock the ice back from the edges and surface whenever you're out there it will keep it open and the chunks will melt. If I didn't have a de icer in my trough I'd probably have 5 inches of ice to break open every morning and the chunks would be too big to melt back into the water. [/QUOTE]
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