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Title: Yeap… It’s cold.
Post by: G0ALY on January 16, 2009, 01:56:23 PM
Howdy all,
I’ve had this water fountain going in our garden for about 6 years. It’s made from an old hand pump and a half a whiskey barrel. It holds about 20 gallons of water that is re-circulated by an electric pump. My dog always drank from it. So do all the birds and squirrels in the area.
We keep it running during the winter by installing a birdbath heater. The heater keeps the water at 50 degrees.

Well this winter is putting the heater to the test. It’s hard to see in the pictures, but there is still a stream of water flowing inside of the ice that has formed.

(http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/2668/fountainlh0.jpg)

I thought I would snap a couple of pictures before I refilled the fountain and busted up the ice… We can’t be having no thirsty wildlife around here!

CHEERS! goaly
Title: Re: Yeap… It’s cold.
Post by: G0ALY on January 16, 2009, 01:59:12 PM
RATS! ... I thought I was posting in the o'club... Sorry about being off topic!
Title: Re: Yeap… It’s cold.
Post by: SectorNine50 on January 16, 2009, 02:08:09 PM
 :confused: That's nuts!
Title: Re: Yeap… It’s cold.
Post by: MaSonZ on January 16, 2009, 02:16:24 PM
where you live?
Title: Re: Yeap… It’s cold.
Post by: G0ALY on January 16, 2009, 02:21:30 PM
Quote from: MaSonZ on January 16, 2009, 02:16:24 PM
where you live?

Northern Ohio. Right now (3PM) its -1 with a windchill of 18 below. 
Title: Re: Yeap… It’s cold.
Post by: MaSonZ on January 16, 2009, 02:28:59 PM
Quote from: G0ALY on January 16, 2009, 02:21:30 PM
Northern Ohio. Right now (3PM) its -1 with a windchill of 18 below. 
thought it was bad at 6am this mornin in mass..10 below with no wind...at 330 its now its 13 but feels like -1 with windchill.
Title: Re: Yeap… It’s cold.
Post by: BaDkaRmA158Th on January 16, 2009, 03:14:32 PM
Oh man, between the bitter cold on the east, and the lack of rain in the west, im thinkin 09's going to be crop failure hell.
Hope for the best, yall keep cool & warm location depending. ;)