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Frozen Water Bowls

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I have every water bowl you can buy and the only ones I never look at are cancrete. It's 26 below and I am sick of frozen bowls. i'm not sure why the cancrete bowls work but they do.
 
They look like a pretty good deal..... your talking about those big heavy cement water troughs right? My fear is: what do you do if you need to work underneath of them?
 
so far so good on the water tanks,my dad spent several days reworking and insulating them in october.we have 300 gal oblong tanks with floating heater's the trick is to stop the breeze around the valves.and make sure the heat tapes are working. the only thing froze up is the cold water in the kitchen.the rest of the house is good.my g,freind just has to get the cold water first.
 
I have had nothing but great luck with my Cancrete bowls.

I took out two Ritchies, and a Edwards, two years ago, and put in the Cancrete 200-250 head models. My power bill went down a bit, and they never seem to freeze on me. I am in Northern BC/Alberta, so it gets pretty cold. I really like mine.
 
I four of the newer ritchies with the plastic bodies and have never had any issues with them. They seem a little better than the steel ones.
 
i've done away with all of our automatic waters. all we use in the winter is the 8-9ft tire tanks with drink holes cut out. if there is enough critters using them, they very seldom ice up.
 
Big Muddy rancher said:
Silver said:
They look like a pretty good deal..... your talking about those big heavy cement water troughs right? My fear is: what do you do if you need to work underneath of them?
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You open the access door. Better and bigger then most bowls.
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Ahhh... the access door must have been up against the wall of the store when I was looking :oops:
 
I got my Cancretes at Peavey Mart. - 35 this morning and at 5 am, it was clear. I am serious, I love these troughs. The UFA in Alberta has something like it, but I don't really go there much.

I had an old Ritchie that was metal, which was good, but I hated the new plastic ones, and bought them for the same price as Cancrete anyway. They would have been frozen solid this am. I was inside and toasty drinking coffee, instead of thawing em out in the cold!
 
We have never had problems with Tire Tank waterers.
The cancrete bowls are good but $$$$.
I know there were a couple on Kijiji this fall in Saskatoon for $500 each, but the new tire was still cheaper. If you want cancrete bowls, I would suggest looking them up.
We also put styrofoam and piping underneath our new concrete pad this fall. The long term plan is to hook up a solar pool heater type of panel and keep the concrete under the trough warm.
 
I just installed 3 Cobett waterers, so far so good. It was -20 here this morning and they were good. The guy who installed them called last night to ask if they were working and I said they were doing fine so far, but I was expecting ice this morning. He said they would work even better the second year as the loose dirt around them packed down so the heat wasn't lost up through the dirt instead of going up to the water.

http://www.cobett.com/index.html
A link if anyone is interested.
 
Northern Rancher said:
We went by the watering bowl graveyard at Highland Feeders last weekend-I should of took a picture I guess.
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I went by Highlands a year ago and saw that so I asked. Those cement bowls were old Hedstoms not Cancrete. We have had ours for 8 years and they look like we got them and they never freeze.
 
Rubber Rock Resources - Chris and Allan Brown. I will find my bill from a few weeks ago and PM you.
 
I have a friend that took 9 tires out this summer in a little feedlot. The rubber leached something into his water when they broke down inside after two years. Apparently all these big tires are not made here. Some come from India and China. Anyway he had cattle that went down to 5 gallons of water a day. He didn't save much with those tanks!
 
That's interesting. We have a couple that are just about 20 years old. The water is still the same as ever. One thing we did get from Alan was a Watson Valve. This is the toughest valve I have ever seen.

http://www.floatvalveusa.com Made in Nebraska.
 
I was at Agribition and a booth had fridge magnets. They gave me a magnet of a new site for parts, and it had a bit of everything for water tanks, including valves etc.

The name is a little long...lol.


www.livestockwatertroughrepair.com

They have everything for Ritchie, Cancreet, Edwards, wheatheart, tires, galv tanks. Whatever. In my area nobody has a ton of this stuff. I thought it looked ntb.
 

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