I started out Wednesday on getting all the livestock equipment ready for a hard cold spell. One of the most important is keeping fresh water to the cattle. At 3PM today I finished checking out 53 automatic waterers. That is on four different places. I cleaned them out. Did any adjustments to the float valves and such. Checked/installed the heaters. Put in light bulbs in the waterer bases for heat. Had 10-11 heaters that where bad. 15-20 float valves that slow leaked or flowed slow. The two biggest Pains had electrical issues. The worst one I had to pull 75 feet of new wire from the barn to the waterer. Sure glad it was one I had installed with conduit. The older electric runs are just buried wire. Had two of them bad last year and had to saw/jack hammer concrete to then lay a new wire.
Just got back in the house after a quick check of them. With the 40 watt bulb in the base you can see the waterer kind of glow when it is dark. All where on and nice clean water in them. Hopefully that same way in the morning. Supposed to get down to 13 degrees tonight with 20-25 MPH winds. That will test them out a little bit. LOL
Don't want to look at the electric meter. LOL Still much easier than times gone by. When K-1 and propane heaters took a lot more time. I can remember my Grand Father made a cattle water tank that you built a fire with coke under the tank. You had to remove ashes and add fuel twice each day. Plus fill it with water.
Just got back in the house after a quick check of them. With the 40 watt bulb in the base you can see the waterer kind of glow when it is dark. All where on and nice clean water in them. Hopefully that same way in the morning. Supposed to get down to 13 degrees tonight with 20-25 MPH winds. That will test them out a little bit. LOL
Don't want to look at the electric meter. LOL Still much easier than times gone by. When K-1 and propane heaters took a lot more time. I can remember my Grand Father made a cattle water tank that you built a fire with coke under the tank. You had to remove ashes and add fuel twice each day. Plus fill it with water.