Ray Tractor: If your going to install one without electric then you going to need several things. 1) Well drain location for the waterer. Water logged soil will not insulate it well enough. 2) Make your ground tube as big as possible and go at least 4 foot deep in Southern IN. The deeper the better. 3) Make sure it is sealed really well to the base/pad. Any air leaks and your going to have trouble. 4) They work best if you have it sized to your herd. Meaning that in real cold weather the inflow of water helps keep it from freezing. So if you have too large of waterer for your herd size you can have more trouble. 5) Set it up to were you can easily drain it. If you do not have any cattle on it in real cold weather than shut the water off and drain it.
I had Mira Fountains in the 1980s-90s. I grew to hate the things. They would cause trouble at the worse times. Then if you drank the Mira Fountain Kool-Aid and did not have electric around, thawing them out in sub-zero weather sucked. Hearing cattle bawling for water was too common a happening for me. Tore them all out an replaced them with heated waterers and slept better at night.
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