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Install a Mirafount Frost-Free Waterer

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The first thing you should think about when buying property or a farm! WATER!

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The Mirafount 3390 is a frost-free waterer designed for extreme cold. It is installed on a concrete pad with a buried tube extending approximately 24 inches into the ground to draw geothermal heat. The unit itself is constructed from thick, insulated polymer plastic to retain heat. It features two blue insulated balls that cover the water openings. Cows learn to press these balls down to access water, and once released, the balls create a seal, preventing heat loss and keeping out insects. This non-heated design provides a continuous supply of fresh, unfrozen water, eliminating the need for daily ice breaking. On-off valves are located within the unit, allowing individual waterers to be shut off for maintenance or cleaning. A drain at the bottom facilitates easy cleaning.

Goal: Set up a Mirafount 3390 frost-free waterer, which uses geothermal heat and insulated components to prevent freezing without external power. This unit is integrated with the farm's water lines and rotational grazing system.

Tools and materials

  • Concrete Pad
  • Drain (internal)
  • Mirafount 3390 Waterer
  • On-off Valve (internal)
  • Poly Pipe

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there this is called a Mira found 3390 this is a frostfree or freeze prooof is water tank now if you live in Minnesota and it's going to be 50 below zero you're going to have to get a heated water tank they make these in a heated water tank and they make them in a non-heated tank and this is a non-heated it has a tube that goes down in the ground approximately 24 in which helps to bring heat from underground and into this tank let me show you exactly what it is so underneath here is our valve system there's a cover right here this is really thick it's poly it's really thick it's a poly polymer plastic and it has insulation in there this is really thick and it has insulation this is the Overflow for this thing and these are the balls that help to insulate okay so we press the ball down or the cow presses the ball down and they're able to drink this is probably a good curiosity for folks that aren't even farming so the cow pushes that down when we have young calves this entire piece right here unbolts from two bolts one there and one there and we can take that out and little calves can drink out of it cuz little calves can't push this down okay it's pretty easy to press down and you can see it develops a seal listen it seals on the outside edge right here so that helps to retain the Heat and the water inside helps to retain it it holds about 40 gallons of water which helps to retain heat also so there's a heat tube down under this concrete pad that pulls heat from the ground to help warm this inside and it's insulated so it's really thick with insulation and you press these balls down to drink and those are insulated so that seals it off in the summertime that keeps out all of your mosquitoes and all your bug larvae and in the winter time that helps to seal it off and that's called miraf 3390 again you can find most of these at your normal agricultural stores now you're going to find some footage right now we're going to walk you through the install of one of these and how it's all done the footage is going to be of me trenching so I trenched our solar well is way over there it's nearly a half a mile over there I trenched all the way down all the way across the driveway and all the way up through this field and we also have one two three four five of these mirant Water Systems over here this has been an integral part of the farming here so the way this works and we'll back up just a little bit so you guys can see I have four posts set up right here these…

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