Official Squatch Watchers

[Chickassan]

Yes, yes and YES!

Fortunately you are now protected by an anti-Christmas attack derp.

 

[Chickassan]

Nunny are you a genuis and just not telling because that is a really smart heater!
I don't think all of them together could tip that over and it is pretty flippin fireproof.

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Soooooo I set up this crazy contraption in my coop today. It's a trash can heater!
31 gal galvanized trash can. Set up on 2 cinder blocks. Then 50 lbs of play sand in the bottom with 3 old school oil lamps lit inside. Holes drilled around the top and bottom for air flow.
My coop temp went up. Not much but up. And its warm when you stand next to it. Or on it like the chickens are sure to.
Fingers crossed for non frozen chickens!

 

[21hens-incharge]

Nunny are you a genuis and just not telling because that is a really smart heater!
I don't think all of them together could tip that over and it is pretty flippin fireproof.

X2!

Pretty freaking clever!

 

[staceyj]

Just let the dog out and I'm his new hero... he walked over to an ice covered bowl, licked it a few times and looked at me... I busted the half inch layer of ice on top and he went to town. Wagging that tail constantly.

We need an updated picture of this happy dog.

 

[Chickassan]

Yeah girl, big mouth blabbed. Now i'm forever the wife of paranoid water bottle man.
We have fried two turkeys with these people, that's it. They aren't share a wonky secret material at ALL.
Bright side if there is one I just got a little more normal!

Just catching up for the day and almost spit my chicken and rice across the room when I read this.
Oh no.

 

[staceyj]

So here's what happened.

I was driving to work this morning on the Garden State Parkway (or the GSP as us Jerseyans say). It is like the freaking Autobahn. You take your life into your hands when you drive it, but it's the only way to get up and down this stupid state. You can fly by the state troopers doing 90 and they don't even bat an eye, b/c you are just keeping up with traffic, although the speed limit is 65, which is a joke.

So I am talking to my hubby on the Bluetooth, toodling along at--I dunno--80 mph. All of a sudden--out of literally nowhere--a *Christmas tree* explodes out in front of me. It must have fallen off a truck. (Ok, but...WTF. It's almost February. Right?!)

This big log that was once part of the tree trunk goes right in front of my left front tire, I'm talking not a second to swerve. I yell "F***!!! F***!!" as I run over it and it immediately punctures my tire and destroys my rim. My hubby is like "Were you just in an accident?!" cuz he heard the thud (it was loud). No, I go, I just ran over a log from a Christmas tree. (?!?)

I pull over, heart thumping, put on my flashers, and eventually a state trooper comes by and asks me what's wrong. I go, It seems I just narrowly escaped death (what if it flew through my windshield? I would have been, like, decapitated) from a Christmas tree, officer. He goes, "Yeah, it was a Christmas tree. I just cleaned it off the road." (whoever dropped it just kept going, in true Jersey style, and left the exploded crap all over the road for a mile or two. B*stard!)

Anyway, long story short, hubby jacks up the car, takes off the tire, drives me to his mom's, and puts on this old donut tire from his 93 year old mother's Buick Century (2000 or 1900, I'm not sure which century really) that just happens to fit on my axle on my car, and I arrive to work almost two hours late, flashers on the whole time doing 60. Unbelievable.

My little sister laughed her azz off when I called and told her. She was like, "That's really messed up, and if you died I would have been sad, but in a couple years it would be a really good story, and I would chuckle as I told it." She is my favorite sister.

That's it. I'm alive, and so are you, if you are reading this. And that's a beautiful thing.

Horrifying!
I am so glad you’re alive!

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

Honestly can't take credit. I'm a nervous wreck at work and that thing is lit in my coop with my babies. My mad scientist friend told me the plan and I got everything to do it. The words fire and coop aren't supposed to be in the same sentence.
But scientificly it is a sound heater.
Cost me about $75 to buy everything. (The cinder blocks I had on hand are frozen to the ground.) If I had planned better and bought ahead it would have been a little cheaper but hey, they are getting a little warmer.
I'll take more picts and show it better.

 

[staceyj]

Yeah girl, big mouth blabbed. Now i'm forever the wife of paranoid water bottle man.
We have fried two turkeys with these people, that's it. They aren't share a wonky secret material at ALL.
Bright side if there is one I just got a little more normal!

Well you know what they say about behind every dark cloud, there’s a silver lining... or something along those lines!

 

[staceyj]

Honestly can't take credit. I'm a nervous wreck at work and that thing is lit in my coop with my babies. My mad scientist friend told me the plan and I got everything to do it. The words fire and coop aren't supposed to be in the same sentence.
But scientificly it is a sound heater.
Cost me about $75 to buy everything. (The cinder blocks I had on hand are frozen to the ground.) If I had planned better and bought ahead it would have been a little cheaper but hey, they are getting a little warmer.
I'll take more picts and show it better.

Genius! I wish you had a thermometer out there to document it tonight!

 

[Chickassan]

Don't be nervous that heater is pretty much how they heated poultry houses back in the day.
It is stable, your coop is ventilated you can relax a little bit.

Honestly can't take credit. I'm a nervous wreck at work and that thing is lit in my coop with my babies. My mad scientist friend told me the plan and I got everything to do it. The words fire and coop aren't supposed to be in the same sentence.
But scientificly it is a sound heater.
Cost me about $75 to buy everything. (The cinder blocks I had on hand are frozen to the ground.) If I had planned better and bought ahead it would have been a little cheaper but hey, they are getting a little warmer.
I'll take more picts and show it better.