Freezing buckets

[Rides 2 Far <rides2far@juno.com>]

Hey ya'll,
School's out for the holidays so I get to come out and play. :-)
It's COLD here...barely above freezing since Saturday.  I decided to try
a little experiment and it was fairly successful. I don't have water at
my barn; usually doesn't matter since they're not locked in it, but the
really choppy muddy ground was frozen and so hard to walk on.. and the
wind was so bad Kaboot refused to come out from under the shed and called
for "room service". The hose from the house reaches within about 50' of
the barn and if that freezes I have to haul it from the bathtub :-P. When
the pipe thawed out for awhile Monday afternoon I filled all my buckets
with water, put lids on them and then put them in my sawdust pile in the
barn.  Banked the sawdust around them and though the buckets in the stall
froze almost solid, those stayed perfectly thawed.  The next night I took
a muck bucket and put an empty 5-gal. bucket down in it, then filled in
all around it with sawdust. Put that in the stall, then poured a bucket
of water in it.  The next day the bucket was about 3/4 empty, so it had
stayed thawed most of the night. There was a very thin layer of ice on
it, as compared to one I couldn't break with an ax the day before.  We
don't have ice problems often enough around here to worry too much about
buying heaters, but this was a nice short term fix.

Angie
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