My son is running cattle with his fater-in-law.
My daughter-in-law's great grand parents developed a spring they think about 100 years ago.
In the last couple of years the tank has rusted out badly and the cattle were in mud to their bellies to drink. But her dad did not want to change "Grandpa's set-up", he finally relented and my son went to work and we made a big change in about 4 hours.
This is the overflow from a spring that goes to the house first then continues on.
We started by putting a full tri axel load of broken concrete sidewalks in the mud hole that was there.
This is what the cattle will now see.
The water goes in then back out, cattle should not be able to make too much mess. We have 2 tri axel loads of enigneering fill over the broken concrete so it should last several decades if the tank stays good. Should never freeze!
My daughter-in-law's great grand parents developed a spring they think about 100 years ago.
In the last couple of years the tank has rusted out badly and the cattle were in mud to their bellies to drink. But her dad did not want to change "Grandpa's set-up", he finally relented and my son went to work and we made a big change in about 4 hours.
This is the overflow from a spring that goes to the house first then continues on.
We started by putting a full tri axel load of broken concrete sidewalks in the mud hole that was there.
This is what the cattle will now see.
The water goes in then back out, cattle should not be able to make too much mess. We have 2 tri axel loads of enigneering fill over the broken concrete so it should last several decades if the tank stays good. Should never freeze!