Pond aeration (was Diversion Load) [RE-wrenches]

[Bob Ellison, Alternative Energy Systems]

Do NOT use salt to keep a stock tank from freezing....... Would you want to
drink the water after you salted it?

Bob




-----Original Message-----
From:	Ian Woofenden, Home Power [mailto:ian.woofenden at homepower.com]
Sent:	Monday, June 11, 2001 6:27 PM
To:	RE-wrenches at topica.com
Subject:	RE: Pond aeration (was Diversion Load) [RE-wrenches]


Hi Jim,

It's pretty normal to give cattle salt/mineral blocks--we use them
here. I don't know how much salt you'd have to add to a stock water
tank to make a significant difference in freezing though.

Ian

At 9:56 PM +0000 6/11/2001, Jim Hartley wrote:
>Chris Daum wrote:
>>  Yeah, when it's minus 20F to minus 40F, none of this stuff you guys are
>>  talking about works.  That's the Montana report.
>
>Hmmm.  I ran into this freezing problem vis a vis stock tanks some years
>ago.  I don't consider myself an expert on any kind of solution, but
>something has occurred to me.  It may sound dumb, but salt water freezes
>at a lower temperature than fresh water does. Why not put salt blocks in
>the tanks to lower the freezing point even further?


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