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<blockquote data-quote="RDFF" data-source="post: 1660009" data-attributes="member: 39018"><p>About $1000 range, depending on which model you're considering. <a href="https://store.cammackranchsupply.com/category-s/1939.htm" target="_blank">Cobett Waterer (cammackranchsupply.com)</a></p><p></p><p>I made my own 20 years ago out of 24" plastic culvert, with a 15" inside, then filled between the two with foam in insulation. Used a rubber bucket for the tub (tried plastic, didn't last because of UV, rubber buckets been in there for 15 years and still good). At the time, it cost me about $250 to build with all new materials, a Cobett was about $800 then. Cobett's made a few helpful improvements over the years, but not much. I'll be upgrading the valve system on my next installations from the floatless underwater diaphram toilet valve like Cobett uses (pretty slow water flow rate, they also offer a higher flow "float type" valve now... didn't back then), to a float type Jobe Topaz (full flow valve), with the FrostPro on it. I'm putting the next ones out in my converted "row crop field to pasture" on a shallow buried line (I'm in Minnesota remember). When it gets below freezing, you can open the FrostPro and it lets a little water trickle to keep everything open, including the waterer itself then (no ice chopping, cattle can always have access to water). Have to have an overflow drain away line then though of course. I'd say south of I-80, a Cobett without any heat and no FrostPro type of device would probably almost always remain open. We're down to about 10 degrees here right now at night, and it's been staying open every day. The more traffic you have at it, the better it'll stay open of course. I ran an electric wire out to the ones in the yard, and duct taped a thermostically controlled car battery blanket around the bucket. If there's not much traffic on it, the water in the bucket is warm to the touch, even well below 0.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://cobett.com/model-sb-float-valve-system" target="_blank">Model SB: Float Valve System | Cobett Company</a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://cobett.com/model-lb-float-valve-system" target="_blank">Model LB: Float Valve System | Cobett Company</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDFF, post: 1660009, member: 39018"] About $1000 range, depending on which model you're considering. [URL='https://store.cammackranchsupply.com/category-s/1939.htm']Cobett Waterer (cammackranchsupply.com)[/URL] I made my own 20 years ago out of 24" plastic culvert, with a 15" inside, then filled between the two with foam in insulation. Used a rubber bucket for the tub (tried plastic, didn't last because of UV, rubber buckets been in there for 15 years and still good). At the time, it cost me about $250 to build with all new materials, a Cobett was about $800 then. Cobett's made a few helpful improvements over the years, but not much. I'll be upgrading the valve system on my next installations from the floatless underwater diaphram toilet valve like Cobett uses (pretty slow water flow rate, they also offer a higher flow "float type" valve now... didn't back then), to a float type Jobe Topaz (full flow valve), with the FrostPro on it. I'm putting the next ones out in my converted "row crop field to pasture" on a shallow buried line (I'm in Minnesota remember). When it gets below freezing, you can open the FrostPro and it lets a little water trickle to keep everything open, including the waterer itself then (no ice chopping, cattle can always have access to water). Have to have an overflow drain away line then though of course. I'd say south of I-80, a Cobett without any heat and no FrostPro type of device would probably almost always remain open. We're down to about 10 degrees here right now at night, and it's been staying open every day. The more traffic you have at it, the better it'll stay open of course. I ran an electric wire out to the ones in the yard, and duct taped a thermostically controlled car battery blanket around the bucket. If there's not much traffic on it, the water in the bucket is warm to the touch, even well below 0. [URL='https://cobett.com/model-sb-float-valve-system']Model SB: Float Valve System | Cobett Company[/URL] [URL='https://cobett.com/model-lb-float-valve-system']Model LB: Float Valve System | Cobett Company[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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