I managed to get the local Orscheln's ( farm store ) to sell me a Brower Performance One waterer at the price they had it on sale for back in September when they didn't have any in stock...
http://www.browerequip.com/products/...m/perform.html
It is in the barn now while I finish some other work around the house. We are ripping out a poorly done bathroom in the basement and redoing it, major fun was discovering the shower drain didn't have a P trap under it so I had to rent a concrete saw to cut a hole in the floor to put one in...argh.
No wonder that part of the basement smelled funny a lot of the time, we have a septic system that empties into an evaporation pond, so when I had the whole house fan running, you could feel a draft coming up out of that drain...
I am looking forward to installing this, we ran to stock tank heaters, 1500 watts each last winter, so when the weather was cold they were costing us around $80 a month...each.
I am thinking of installing the waterer under a fence, with half in our corral area and half in a one acre pasture that I use for putting the cows in until they calve and other times I need to seperate the bull from the heifers, or whatever...I have seen other folks install them this way, any comments?
The instruction mentions using an 8 inch riser under the concrete pad, any suggestion on what kind of riser to use? I guess I could try and hunt up a piece of 8 inch clay drainage tile, do they make pvc pipe that big?