Water?

[caramac1988]

Ok so My field is up a hill and there was very little frozen water and hose was frozen aswel so I spent the last hour and a half filling up the trough with snow and then went into the house got a big bucket of hot water and dragged myself with it up to the field and poured it over the snow and did it do much ..NAW lol so I dragged more buckets up but I now give up has anyone got some tips ? Xx

 

[ForeverBroke_]

If you can , put a ball in the trough when it is full as it'll stop the water from freezing in the first place. The ball keeps it moving

Have you tried pouring hot water on the tap itself?

 

[monkeybum13]

Ahh I was going to suggest the ball thing - it really does work.

 

[caramac1988]

I think I used a ball last year and my wee pony thought it was a toy and would get it out somehow .. No not tried that will give it a go thnks x

 

[ForeverBroke_]

Lol, thats the only flaw to the ball! Luckily it can't make contact with my horse or he'll gallop to the end of the field!

 

[Hels_Bels]

Don't pour hot water on the tap as it's more likely to burst, hot and cold = cracking. e.g you don't pour hot water on your car windscreen cause it will crack it.

The ball is a good option, however with temperatures as they are not much is worikng

 

[ForeverBroke_]

That's true, hadn't thought of that!

 

[Toast]

i tried the ball method...although it was a rubber duck..
Didnt work it just froze around the duck!
x

 

[Box_Of_Frogs]

Snow is 12x the volume of water. So if you have 12 inches of snow, it's only = to 1 inch of water. You'd need to shovel a HUGE towering pile of snow into the trough to fill it, ie 12 ft high stack of snow to get 1 ft in your trough. But on the plus side, you'd have biceps like Arnold Schwarzeneger lol.

 

[Storminateacup]

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If you can , put a ball in the trough when it is full as it'll stop the water from freezing in the first place. The ball keeps it moving

Have you tried pouring hot water on the tap itself?

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Tried this with a ball and also two apples - It doesn't work.

You've got to have something to keep the ball/apple MOVING to stop the ice refreezing!
Perhaps more than one or two horses all frequenting the trough at different times would work , but if its just the one horse and the time lapse between visits to the trough does not exceed the speed the water takes to refreeze - then its not going to work is it?

 

[Storminateacup]

Anyway if you have more than a few horses all drinking out of the same trough and the pipes frozen, you are soon going to run out of water in the trough anyway, and if the ball is kept moving in the water, but SLOWLY you will get SLUSH cause thats how ice cream is made!!