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Griz
Reg. Sep 2003
Posted 2014-11-14 5:41 AM
Subject: RE: Stock tank heaters


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brlracerchick - 2014-11-13 9:38 PM I will not buy tank heaters that sit in the tank any more. I will only use the ones that go in the drain hole. When I was a little girl, we had a horse chew the tank heater which caused our other horse to get electrocuted when he went to get a drink.  

THIS - and you don't have to worry about the horses pulling them out of the tank. 
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Crowned Image
Reg. Jan 2011
Posted 2014-11-14 7:32 AM
Subject: RE: Stock tank heaters



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Location: MD		I've used the screw in ones and the sinking tank heaters. the screw in ones are pretty good but I've had rotten luck with them last winter. the horses apparently got bored and bent one and it was leaking through the plug. then the next one I bought shorted and of course I had about 80 gallons of solid ice on it to bust through in order to get it out.
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TrailGirl
Reg. Jan 2014
Posted 2014-11-14 8:35 AM
Subject: RE: Stock tank heaters



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wyoming barrel racer - 2014-11-13 11:30 AM I wish we had some. My father in law and husband are against them because years ago they had one short out in the tank and the horses wouldn't drink. Aparrently the horses could sense it. Nothing appeared wrong with the heater though...so now they won't use them. I chop ice morning noon and night for anything in the corral :( 

This morning at 7 am we were 22- and the ice was a good 2 inches thick. Went out an hour and half later to let Audie out of the barn and it was already nearly an inch thick again.

 


So if THEY are against them...Why are YOU chopping Ice?? LOL

THAT would not fly at my place. They'd be doing the ice chopping or I'd have heaters in the troughs.
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