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<blockquote data-quote="RDFF" data-source="post: 1783043" data-attributes="member: 39018"><p>BTW, not wanting to knock anything that Wilson is doing in any way. It's working for him, obviously, and in central Texas, it would likely work well too. His tank has very little "reserve capacity" though, and if you're watering alot of animals, the "flow" then has to keep up with them. I rotationally graze, and walk my cattle back to water sometimes as much as a mile... and I have learned that if the reserve capacity is limited, they WILL learn to come as onesy-twosy's, even for that distance, to accomodate this. But that can only take you so far, as your herd grows.</p><p></p><p>The tire tank design is far more durable, less labor intensive, provides a robust reserve capacity, and is far more "secure" against freezing. When you have lots of cattle depending on it, and you KNOW you're going to be up against weather that you'd just as soon not have to mess with water systems in, you'll eventually gravitate toward figuring out a way to overcome that concern. When it's well below 0 for weeks at a time, a cattleman has more important things to do than worrying about frozen water systems because he didn't plan for it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDFF, post: 1783043, member: 39018"] BTW, not wanting to knock anything that Wilson is doing in any way. It's working for him, obviously, and in central Texas, it would likely work well too. His tank has very little "reserve capacity" though, and if you're watering alot of animals, the "flow" then has to keep up with them. I rotationally graze, and walk my cattle back to water sometimes as much as a mile... and I have learned that if the reserve capacity is limited, they WILL learn to come as onesy-twosy's, even for that distance, to accomodate this. But that can only take you so far, as your herd grows. The tire tank design is far more durable, less labor intensive, provides a robust reserve capacity, and is far more "secure" against freezing. When you have lots of cattle depending on it, and you KNOW you're going to be up against weather that you'd just as soon not have to mess with water systems in, you'll eventually gravitate toward figuring out a way to overcome that concern. When it's well below 0 for weeks at a time, a cattleman has more important things to do than worrying about frozen water systems because he didn't plan for it. [/QUOTE]
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