Posted by JD Seller on February 19, 2015 at 20:27:29 from (208.126.198.123):
Middle son called me at 5 am this morning. It was -12 F. at that time. Transformer across the road went out last night. All of the cattle on that side are without water.
I bundled up and went to help. We get the generator hooked up and going. No water anywhere. Waterers and lines froze in every single yard.
So he goes and get the 500 gallon pickup water tank an starts hauling into old galvanized water troughs.
I get the small generator, space heater and four sheets of plywood. Also several gates.
So while he is getting some water to the cattle I am building a box around the first waterer. I get the space heater going and start thawing out the first waterer. It takes about twenty minutes to get the first one thawed out and working.
Then I have to take the box apart and move to the next waterer. Most of the waterer set just a little different on these lots as the pens where built over the years just out of what ever we had at the time. So I have to make the enclosure "fit" each one.
I got the last one working at 7:30 PM. It took 25 gallon of K-1 and all day but it was not hard work. Just mainly watching that things thawed out and where not broke. Had to fix several burst valves and fittings.
You know what it reminded me of????? Ice fishing. LOL I never have been ice fishing but me setting on a five gallon bucket inside a crude enclosure with a rigged up heat source seemed a lot like it.
Well they all got cleaned and adjusted for the next while. I had to do something while setting there. The Grand Daughters kept me company as school was out for a teachers day. They made hot chocolate and snack runs. LOL
Well everything turned out OK. The cattle where not without water long and as cold as it was they really where not that thirsty anyhow.
The electric guys had a worse job to me. Up in that basket changing that transformer looked a lot colder. I at least had heat.
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