J came to the house earlier this week and said the water tank in the bull lot was stopped up. I said I would go work on it while he finished feeding. With the overflow blocked, the extra water was just spilling over the side adding to the mud issue.
Looks like the guard over the overflow was pulled off and something, maybe algae, plugged it up.
Enter, the snake. The blockage wasn't very far down, and soon the water was running out like it was suppose to.
The water level quickly dropped.
I guess the attention I was paying to the tank made the bulls interested to see what was going on.
The overflow pipe leads to another tank that the cows were drinking from. Since it hadn't been blocked long, there was no issue with the amount of water the cows had. All in a days work.
nice work. It is always something.
ReplyDeleteWE are having the opposite trouble - no water. Frost is being driven further into the ground by warmer weather, freezing the waterline to the stock waterer (which is buried 8 feet deep darnit Mother Nature!). Twice in the last four days Mr Shoes has had to steam out the line; he's going to have to thread inline heat trace cable into 100 feet of pipe - that cable costs $7/foot before taxes, which is why he hasn't done it before now, and why he buried the waterlines in the first place WELL UNDER the frost line for this area (as reported by AgCa).
ReplyDeleteIt's always something...