A local Agriculture Extension office and Rogers Group are working together with local farmers to save money by recycling Euclid tires. These tires are old and used and Rogers Group would normally have to pay to dispose of them.
As you can imagine the tires are approximately 6 feet tall and 3 feet wide and weigh around 800 lbs. Each tire will hold up to 350 gallons of water. A 1 ½" flow valve pipe is inserted in the tire and connected to a water source such as a water service or a spring to make a watering trough for the livestock.
The watering trough is fixed on a 15-foot geotextile material pad of 8" crusher run. The crusher run is a limestone product produced by Rogers Group.
There are several advantages to using this system.
- It costs approximately $500 versus $1500 using the old system.
- Recycling tires is environmentally conscious.
- Tires will not rust.
- Tires lasts longer.
- Tires should not freeze because there is a constant water flow due to cattle drinking the water and the systems constant replenishing of the trough.
- Horses and cows no longer bang up their knees on the metal trough.
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