"Grumman-581" wrote in message
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On 5 May 2006 14:47:49 -0700, "Heathcliff"
wrote:

OK I have to ask . . . . how big is your dog?

He's half German Shepherd, hald St. Bernard... It's basically an
engineering challenge between what he can destroy / knock over and
what I can buy / design / build... He likes to put his front paws in
the water bowl and that tended to knock them over... The plastic water
bowls were just considered chew toys by him... Eventually, I had to
make one out of concrete and rebar... The sides and bottom are about
6" thick and it took 3.5 80# bags of concrete to make it... If I was
doing it over, I would pour a small slab, have rebar sticking up along
the edges, and do the perimeter with CMUs (cinder blocks) filled with
concrete... I would also install a pipe at the bottom of the first row
of CMUs with a valve on it so that I could drain the container... I
would also plumb it so that water could come directly into it with no
exposed valves -- probably have the valve near the house with just a
straight pipe running out to the water container... My philosophy is
that if you're going to engineer something, you might as well
over-engineer it...

Sounds like a hell of lot of work to make a stock tank that Tractor Supply
sells for a hundred bucks or so, last time I noticed.....

A dog that big isn't a dog anymore- that is livestock.

aem sends...