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if there is wood handy: Build a wood-fired stock tank heater - Backwoods Home Magazine
the flaw with this guys design is the stack needs to be much taller than the inlet, and if you insulate the stack it will draw much better, as in just weld another pipe around the outside of the stack and fill it with ashes, when it is full cap it so rain cant get in but leave a vent hole to prevent steam pressure

Now that is an interesting idea. We have plenty of wood!
 
Q. may sound odd... What is the temperature of the soil, 1 foot below the surface? Yearly average as well as in Jan/Feb? It might be hard info to find but it might be useful if building a cellar, or a below ground water trough.

Here it's about 52 degrees, more than enough to thaw water standing on it.

All that's needed is turn the water into a giant heat sink. A way to slightly warm the water in a tank using the temperature of the soil, as long as it's above freezing.
 
Q. may sound odd... What is the temperature of the soil, 1 foot below the surface? Yearly average as well as in Jan/Feb? It might be hard info to find but it might be useful if building a cellar, or a below ground water trough.

Here it's about 52 degrees, more than enough to thaw water standing on it.

All that's needed is turn the water into a giant heat sink. A way to slightly warm the water in a tank using the temperature of the soil, as long as it's above freezing.

I don't know what the temp is but we were already planning on sinking it a foot deep. Our frost line is 8 inches.
 

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