Re: Re: Non-freezing strategies (was Buckets)

["JOHN AYERS" <ayers@bypass.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Sandy Bolinger <bolinger@bigsky.net>
To: Bob & Amber Roberts <mlaboure@flash.net>; Lif Strand
<fasterhorses@gilanet.com>
Cc: ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Sunday, December 24, 2000 10:58 AM
Subject: RC: Re: Non-freezing strategies (was Buckets)


>There's another kind of a system that works no matter how cold it
>gets...it's a double walled water trough that is insulated by heated air
>from underground...A very deep hole is dug and a 6 inch pipe goes into the
>hole up to the bottom of the trough...the warmed air in the pipe fills the
>space between the two walls of the trough..I was a skeptic but after weeks
>of 30 below with wind and the water didn't freeze..I became a believer!


Do you use a fan to circulate the air or is natural convection enough?
Wouldn't the ground in the hole freeze after a time of circulating the
cold surface air?


I have a spring in the paddock.  I closed it in and the water from the 
overflow runs into a rubber bucket for Meshack about 55 degrees
year round.  Can't beat that for covenience.  Having to haul water
all winter long would dampen my enthusiasm for horses <g>.
 
John and Meshack
http://www.bypass.com/~ayers (Vermont Equestrian Activities)
Treasurer Vermont Arabian Horse Association