[AT] anti-freeze

Lew Best bee_keeper at earthlink.net
Wed Dec 24 06:36:10 PST 2008


Thanks Farmer!

I was just wondering; knew it would have to have some way to keep that drain
from stopping up when the soil settled.  Here we only need to bury pipe a
few inches (mine are about a foot); temps seldom (once every few years
maybe?) reach 0 F but it does get cold enough to freeze & burst unprotected
faucets, etc.  That's why I bought the freeze proof ones.  Running the tube
into a drain tile will do the trick I'm sure.

Lew 

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On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Lew Best <bee_keeper at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hey Ralph or Mike M
>
> Of course we don't have to go nearly that deep here in central TX but I'm
> curious what's the "normal thing" to do with this drain?  I recently
bought
> one of these; the drain has pipe thread (1/8"IIRC?) so I put a hose on it
&
> trenched out letting the end come out at "supply pipe level" as the land
has
> a slope to it.  Other one I plan to install will be on level ground so
can't
> do it this way.  No instructions came with the hydrants.
>
> Lew near Waco, TX
>
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Hi Lew:

In very cold locations cut off about a 3' piece of 4" black plastic
field tile and drop it in the ditch and run the tube into it. That
will give it plenty of holding room until the soil can absorb it.
Otherwise with 2 or 3 uses in a row in extreme cold it might not all
drain back fast enough to prevent the water from freezing in the
hydrant..
Another cold climate tip. Heat is "always" coming up in the soil. If
you need to run a water line but cant get it deep enough due to
something like shallow bedrock you can put it down as far as you can
and center the pipe in the ditch then cover the pipe with a strip of
foam insulation board at least a foot wide. The foam board will stop
the downward travel of the frostline and will also hold much of the
upward moving deep soil heat at the level of the pipe.
Of course if your bedrock is only an inch down and it gets to 20 below
you better be using a pretty wide thick piece of foam board...
;-)
I have a short run of water line near one barn that was installed 3
feet deep in the early 1950s but due to changing terrain is now only
about 20" deep in places. Since I need it to keep working for the
horses now in that barn I thought I might put about 6" of wood chips
over the shallow area as insulation. In the area where I have the wood
chips stored the ground never even freezes at all under a foot of
them.




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Francis Robinson
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