I hear this one every January: “I’ve got a heater in there. Why is it still frozen solid?” It’s a fair question, and it’s more common than people think. Somebody drops a floating heater in the tank back in October, feels good about it,...
I get asked this all the time, usually by somebody who just found out the hard way that their line wasn’t buried deep enough: “How deep do I actually need to go?” It’s a fair question. And the honest answer is a little more complicated than a...
Winterizing Your Water System, Before You’re Forced To Every year it’s the same story. Somebody calls me in late November, usually right after the first real cold snap, and they’re standing next to a busted pipe or a tank that’s frozen solid...
If you’ve ever gone looking for honest, practical guidance on choosing a livestock waterer, you already know that most of what’s out there falls into one of two categories. There’s the manufacturer’s product page, which is enthusiastic and not...
There’s a version of this project that goes smoothly. The trench goes in at the right depth, the pipe gets bedded correctly, the backfill gets done properly, and ten years later the system is still running exactly the way it was designed to. Nobody digs anything...
Every water line project has a moment where the plan meets reality, and on a lot of farms and properties, that moment happens when the trench route runs directly into a tree. Sometimes it’s one tree. Sometimes it’s a whole row of them along a fence line...
