I've switched all but one to poly tanks. As soon as the last galvanized one starts leaking, it'll be plastic. One leaky windmill tank now has a concrete liner... A lotta guys around here are going tire tanks with concrete bottoms.
Those tire tanks with concrete are the best I've ever seen.
The better ones had a concrete pad that went far enough away from the trough to not wallow out from cattle watering for decades.
The one's I use now are the thick Rubbermaid troughs, and recently a traditional galvanized one that waters 2 pastures. The Rubbermaid trough I had out there developed a 3" crack in the side. WTH is that? Not sure why that happened, unless it was my white trash neighbor with a hatchet...
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