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<blockquote data-quote="canoetrpr" data-source="post: 740068" data-attributes="member: 4892"><p>Interesting and diverse thoughts. I appreciate them all. Currently I have a stock tank with a heater in the pole barn. This is what we have always used with horses. </p><p></p><p>Manure in the pole barn has not particularly been a problem - we clean it out regularly and dump fresh straw from time to time.</p><p></p><p>An installation that will require trenching at this point is going to get expensive for me and this seems like a HUGE improvement over a stock tank with a heater. I have concrete all around the buildings where I have water coming out of the ground from a frost free hydrant or a heated water line. I would have to trench from my house or heat the water line for about 50 feet or so to get it to a point where I could bury the the darn thing and put it away from the pole barn. I guess I can always get it done at a later point if I decide that I have made a mistake by putting it in the pole barn. I will build a platform out of cedar to bolt it on to keep the cows from dumping in it as you point out.</p><p></p><p>You have given me some food for thought though. I have a riding ring which is just beside my pole barn. I think I will set things up so that my calves can be weaned in the riding ring. Now I expect to wean when things aren't frozen - but really there are always times where things don't happen on schedule. I think I might do well to install the waterer in a spot in the pole barn so that I can split the pole barn so that one side can be accessed by the weaned calves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="canoetrpr, post: 740068, member: 4892"] Interesting and diverse thoughts. I appreciate them all. Currently I have a stock tank with a heater in the pole barn. This is what we have always used with horses. Manure in the pole barn has not particularly been a problem - we clean it out regularly and dump fresh straw from time to time. An installation that will require trenching at this point is going to get expensive for me and this seems like a HUGE improvement over a stock tank with a heater. I have concrete all around the buildings where I have water coming out of the ground from a frost free hydrant or a heated water line. I would have to trench from my house or heat the water line for about 50 feet or so to get it to a point where I could bury the the darn thing and put it away from the pole barn. I guess I can always get it done at a later point if I decide that I have made a mistake by putting it in the pole barn. I will build a platform out of cedar to bolt it on to keep the cows from dumping in it as you point out. You have given me some food for thought though. I have a riding ring which is just beside my pole barn. I think I will set things up so that my calves can be weaned in the riding ring. Now I expect to wean when things aren't frozen - but really there are always times where things don't happen on schedule. I think I might do well to install the waterer in a spot in the pole barn so that I can split the pole barn so that one side can be accessed by the weaned calves. [/QUOTE]
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