Good morning!!!!

[rswyan]

-1.3F outside @ 07:15 ... and a rather toasty 70F inside on the upstairs thermostat in the hall ...

Have both the WBF and FPI hummin' along ... the upstairs temp hit 71F yesterday afternoon and stayed there until about 1/2 hour ago. The temp in the basement living/family room (where the FPI is) is a really toasty 80F ...

I'll be sleeping there in a little bit, on the fold-out sofa bed.

Cut down the big ash tree yesterday ...

Good fuel makes all the difference in the world ...

Trying to burn the unseasoned pine alone was very problematic ... it really needed a nice bed of hardwood coals to roast on.

I'm guessing with what we have cut now, we're good for another week.

And with having some good wood that is (relatively) easy to split, I'll have a lot more time available to finish up the logsplitter ... probably in the next three days.

 

[daugen]

Took the rake to the snow.

I'm trying to picture that. Did the snow roll off to one side or just build up behind, or both?
have to remember this. I can't touch down on my black macadam or I'll leave big scratches on it, so even my rear blade with skids installed is worrisome to me. With my fused neck I cannot operate the tractor long going backwards, so everything must be oriented forwards. Which means I have to drive over the snow first. I think Kubota wanted 8 grand for a blower on the front of my tractor. Now that would be silly here. But if I ever get snow here, I was wondering what in the world I could use to get it done without doing serious landscape damage. I left all my snowblowing equipment, including the blower for my Gravely, up in PA. One does like to be prepared. Actually in my location I think ice is more the worry. And nothing to do about that.

Pretty sure JD makes a blower for the front of my garden tractor. Not sure I want to be that prepared...
snows more than two or three inches here are supposedly super rare.

perhaps the best approach is to keep the fridge stocked, get my backup gen installed (22kw Generac on order) and just wait it out. That driveway melts pretty quickly except the front part covered by a canopy of pine trees. That shaded part is where things stick and stay.

I do have an 8 horse pull behind leaf blower that tows nicely behind the garden tractors. maybe I should just blow the snow away...would work great if it were light and fluffy. Problem is snow would pile up in front of the blower...now if I could get RS to make me a nice little diverter/mini plow blade in front of the blower, pushing the snow into the airstream, well,that might work. Where there is a will, and a motor, there is a way.

 

[dave1949]

Drew, a well-stocked fridge and generator ought to see you through most of your weather. Sand is your friend for ice and sleet.

I'm sure the best way to get the sand on the driveway is to have RS build you a potato cannon adapted to shoot rice paper bags of sand onto the driveway. Adjust the propellant and elevation accordingly.

 

[daugen]

Have both the WBF and FPI hummin' along ... the upstairs temp hit 71F yesterday afternoon and stayed there until about 1/2 hour ago. The temp in the basement living/family room (where the FPI is) is a really toasty 80F ...

wow, you finally got warm. yeah.
You have really worked hard to keep warm this winter.
Now get in your recliner in front of that fireplace insert and dream of a warm beach. You deserve it.


I'm going to get a utility bill so high this month I know I'll be starting a thread on picking the right fireplace insert.
I have tons of wood free here on my property so it just makes sense to heat with wood.
Would like to convert it to pellets though. Still want that chipper on the back of my tractor that spits out wood pellets.

 

[daugen]

Drew, a well-stocked fridge and generator ought to see you through most of your weather. Sand is your friend for ice and sleet.

I'm sure the best way to get the sand on the driveway is to have RS build you a potato cannon adapted to shoot rice paper bags of sand onto the driveway. Adjust the propellant and elevation accordingly.

Now I could mount that on the front porch and with a little CNC program have it automatically move down the driveway, adjusting elevation as needed. What fun. But I need RS to build that mini plow for my leaf blower first.

 

[daugen]

Good morning, real temp drop here, -4F here this morning, suppose to hit 5F this afternoon but the windchill is suppose to be around -29F.:confused2:

you continue to have the best...
that poor guy needs a suspension seat

 

[rswyan]

I'm sure the best way to get the sand on the driveway is to have RS build you a potato cannon adapted to shoot rice paper bags of sand onto the driveway. Adjust the propellant and elevation accordingly.

I actually have a local friend that has built potato cannons ...

And he's a TBN member ...

 

[murphy1244]

I actually have a local friend that has built potato cannons ...

And he's a TBN member ...

There are a lot of those around here. Every 4th of July the big guns come out.

 

[JDgreen227]

Minus 12 degrees here....heading to the grocery store in about an hour. Happy Monday, everybody.

 

[BLUE ME]

In the wake of a trough of low pressure on Monday moderate northwest winds will usher in a cold air mass to the Maritimes giving extreme wind chills values of minus 35 to minus 40 overnight Monday into Tuesday morning.
It never ends.
Cheers