Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Moving Aerator in Winter?

fins: I also don't put much confidence in Mescan's overall knowledge about ponds. They sell equipment and that's about all you should expect from them (only my opinion). As an example, he is not even setting up or advising you about your mill properly to run trouble free in the winter during ice forming conditions.

If you don't have a freeze control and OR without the pressure relief option in winter expect trouble eventually. Maybe not this winter but it will happen in a winter in the future. REASON. All check valves underwater eventually fail or clog. When your underwater check valve fails & the wind stops, water will fill all airline underwater and a freeze plug will form at the water line the thickness of the current ice conditons. When the wind resumes pressure will build until the weakest point breakes. We have had some crank shafts even fracture. The freeze control injection mechanism is not real dependable in the long term. A pressure relief valve with a low pressure setting will prevent all these problems if they try to occcur. Plan to clean your airstone every year or two in muraic acid. All difusers clog over time. Clog time depends on numerous factors.