I've had mine is -30° and it still works. The only thing I've had to watch out for is it ice gets built up on the paddle it can stick to the bowl when it fills.
Anthony, Every situation is unique. In our blue/yellow clay soil with the assortment of stray stone up to a basketball, a 10” post hole is a gamble. Digging a trench 48” deep to lay in a water line to the unit is still needed if this is not a retrofit with a waterline already buried. For that work, my old 3.5 tonne excavator is hard to beat. When I plant mine this fall, I am planning to bury a 300’ coil of 1” poly water line below the gravel as a warm water storage “tank”. As a kid around six, I chopped ice from a concrete trough with an axe, and fished the pieces out with bare hands that started to turn blue. Not everything about the “good old days” was good every day. It does build character, and the ability to finish a job by yourself. A question about the 24” auger that you use. Is it a three point pto unit or a hydraulic driven tool on a skid steer or small excavator? It sounds like a good way to go if you can lift it to clean the flutes before it needs a long bar to back it out of the hole.
How do these waterers hold up to in -40 to -60 degree weather?
I've had mine is -30° and it still works. The only thing I've had to watch out for is it ice gets built up on the paddle it can stick to the bowl when it fills.
They also sell an extreme weather unit. I wrapped ours in two layers of silver bubble wrap as well.
Auger that hole. We use a 2 foot auger it's a lot easier
Anthony,
Every situation is unique. In our blue/yellow clay soil with the assortment of stray stone up to a basketball, a 10” post hole is a gamble. Digging a trench 48” deep to lay in a water line to the unit is still needed if this is not a retrofit with a waterline already buried. For that work, my old 3.5 tonne excavator is hard to beat. When I plant mine this fall, I am planning to bury a 300’ coil of 1” poly water line below the gravel as a warm water storage “tank”.
As a kid around six, I chopped ice from a concrete trough with an axe, and fished the pieces out with bare hands that started to turn blue. Not everything about the “good old days” was good every day. It does build character, and the ability to finish a job by yourself.
A question about the 24” auger that you use. Is it a three point pto unit or a hydraulic driven tool on a skid steer or small excavator? It sounds like a good way to go if you can lift it to clean the flutes before it needs a long bar to back it out of the hole.