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pburchett

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Will a Rubbermaid commercial products 100 gal stock tank split if allowed to freeze with water in it or do I need to drain it?
 

I wouldn't chance it, but those tanks are tapered slightly, so the ice may push up some before causing damage. How cold does it have to get to freeze 100 gallon solid?

If you have to drain every night, put a ball valve on the outlet, they are threaded for pipe anyways. We run heater in our tank.
 
I've been using them for more than 10 years... have frozen solid more than once with no damage. Ya might be a bit careful if yer choppin out the ice with an axe tho... don't ask me how I know this! ...D
 
I've got maybe a dozen of them, and none of them less than 15 years old. I've had 2 of them split over the years and one of those was my fault (it was frozen to the ground and I ran into it). Of course, your results may vary but the only time I ever drain one is to move it.
 
I can tell ya that a week or so of below zero weather will freeze a 300+ gallon tank into a solid block! ...see above ...D
 

I have had a rubber made water tank for about 12 years and it has froze up. but I keep a floating tank heater in it and i have had no problems of it spliting: GOOD LUCK and stay warm..
JR Frye
 
I've got an above ground swimming pool made out of an 18' grain bin with a pool liner in it and all I do is pull the filters and pumps and cover it up to keep the leaves and dirt out of it. The highest temp we've had around here in the last 2 weeks was 24 degrees and there is no taper at all to this thing. I might add this pool was put in 5 years ago with no different treatment.
 
I was curious as to whether or not they would split with the expansion of the ice and the internal water pressure. I was thinking of draining it when it thaws out and just using the rubber ones I have. Currently it has 6 inches of ice around the sides and a foot or so on the top. South Central Kentucky has just now had a few cold days. It has gotten down to 2 F here a night or two. I know that is not as bad as some have been talking about, but I prefer the 75 degree days.

I keep chopping a hole in the top to let the calves drink from it but I know I am going to hit it with the ax and mess it up. With the first strike of the ax I often get a 3 foot gush of water coming from the incision in the ice. You just never know which way it is going to go.
 
I have a few of them and they will split near the bottom drain hole if you leave a few inches of water in them and allow it to feeze solid. You can stop drill the cracks and use silcone sealer to fix them.
 
no, i have 6 of them, they freeze every night now, and each morning i bust the ice and fork it out a couple of the tanks are 5+ years old and never have a problem
 
Don't know that mine has ever fozen solid but pretty sure it has a time or two and it has been fine. I wouldn't worry bout it, after this snap we are in now, it shouldn't get this cold for this long again till next year. Take'n the plug out now is not going to much good till next week.

Good luck and try to stay warm.

Dave
 
I know which way it will go - the water always goes right in my face, and the ice chunks go down my collar.

I remember my dad putting a wooden fence post in his stock watering tank. Had to be long enough that it wouldn't lay on it's side. Said it wouldn't push the bottom out if it froze.??

Paul
 
Mine has propbably frozen a time or two with no damage. We usually keep a stock tank heater in it after the first freeze.

Wife drained it a month ago and said it leaked at the plug. I wrapped the plug with teflon tape the next time she drained it to fix the leak. She said it still leaks around the part away from the threads.

I haven't looked at it close but I do recall a molded round circle.

Jerry, if it is leaking at that seam, I assume I drill it from the inside and use a 100% silicon caulk?
 
I do know that if you use a floating heater, you shouldn't tie it to a neighboring fence post so it can't float. Can't imagine why the Mrs. did that, and she couldn't recall, either. You know what happened- water level fell, heating element burned through the side of the tank before burning itself out. I was surprised how long it apparently lasted before burning out.

It leaks some, but I'm going to cut off the element with a Sawzall, then JB Weld around the thing, to try to seal it up.
 
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