The Old Folks Home

[CanuckBock]

It's nothing to be taken lightly, I had a metal cooler crushed by sliding roof snow one year. When I got it chiseled out of the avalanche, it looked like it had been hit by a truck! The snow compresses when it dumps like that, and is literally like concrete. Even a 10' x 12' roof with snow only 6" deep can weigh several thousand pounds.

People get fooled even when looking at fluid water and the weight that amounts to.

Ah yes, brings to mind the ice that came off the Man Porch the year of SNOWmahgedon...I love snow...I repeat, I love snow but even I had my fill 2013/2014 winter.

Jan 1 2014...this was the sheets of ice that were under the snow on the Man Porch roof!
Pressure of the weight of the snows above, melts the snow beneath and then it freezes...into much more compacted ICE

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I learned that year, to remove the wire panels and the rails on the fence in front of the goose pens...in the fall BEFORE the snow accumulated...otherwise each section of fence had to be dug out first ...sans snow is the only way to go!

Dec 2013 - Winter is not even HALF over
So like when the snow is pulled off the roof so the buildings do not collapse...
Where does one pull more roof snow when it is threatening to go higher than the ROOF of the building? ​

We had a wet summer, every three days it rained...so winter came and instead of rain, it fell as snow...every three days or so...

December 2013 - we literally ran out of places to put snow and we have five acres!


Mr. St. Higgins' range


Here comes Rick with another bucket!​

I can count our blessings...having a tractor and a snow bucket...blessings abound!

New Year's Day, Jan 1 2014...bringing in the new year...where to next?​

I had to roof rake 200 feet of double sided 8 foot canopy roofs every three days or so...thank frig the Parking Building has replaced some of these canopies for vintage vehicle storage. Never again shall I have the task of that many roofs needing clearing off...earn my extra slices of pie that winter.

Jan 1, 2014​

Fixins loved the up high running doggy ledges...

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Snow kept coming right on into May...

May 5, 2014
See, even we can fudge up and put the pond together optimistically early!​

I threatened to sell snow cones to the tourists going by in the spring (yeller ones?)...took until June to see the piles gone...

June 6, 2014 - Bye bye Mt. St. Higgins!

I love snow and still do...but 2013/2014 was a tad much even for me.

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[perchie.girl]

one gallon weighs about 9 pounds give or take.... an inch deep by one foot by one foot is .036 pounds

An inch of rain over a surface 1 x 100 feet would be 3.6 pounds. a roof with surface area of 2000 square flat feet would be supporting 7200 pounds over its surface.

It takes an inch of rain to create a foot of snow.... In general terms I know.... I imagine it packs down as more snow accumulates.

The deal is while its on the roof that roof can support alot more than you think one square foot at a time. Its the supporting structure that needs to be able to hold that weight.

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[chickadoodles]

Wisher I know where I come from I was taught the same way fight with everything you have inside you to protect what is yours! I have and I would again anytime.

 

[drumstick diva]

Wishers ferocity(spell check says ok - I doubt it) even scared me

I do turn into mama bear when I need to (I love my son) but, I think it is scarier to see someone else do it.

He is 30 and I would still attack ankles fiercely if he needed help.

 

[bamadude]

Scg: I finally found fruit stripe gum. I lost your address. Pm me

 

[chickadoodles]

Here are some pics of the chicks Ron. My camera froze up but you can get an idea. lol

 

[ronott1]

Here are some pics of the chicks Ron. My camera froze up but you can get an idea. lol

They are so cute!

 

[chickadoodles]

Thanks Ron. They are very sweet to.

 

[getaclue]

I just put a pot of coffee on, and am looking at the chick pics. I'm all warm, and fuzzy now. After all the fighting about how to do my electric fence for my coop, Dh is out of commission. He had torn the cartilage in his rib cage under his arm. He was doing fine until last night. He bent over to pick up a piece of paper from the floor at work, coughed, and about passed out. He tore the cartilage again. They took him to the infirmary, and the doc gave him a shot of cortisone in the rib cage. He said the shot hurt, but it sure eased off the pain from the rib cage. Of course, he can't put in the posts, and ground rod in for the fence. UGH!

 

[scottcaddy]

I just put a pot of coffee on, and am looking at the chick pics. I'm all warm, and fuzzy now. After all the fighting about how to do my electric fence for my coop, Dh is out of commission. He had torn the cartilage in his rib cage under his arm. He was doing fine until last night. He bent over to pick up a piece of paper from the floor at work, coughed, and about passed out. He tore the cartilage again. They took him to the infirmary, and the doc gave him a shot of cortisone in the rib cage. He said the shot hurt, but it sure eased off the pain from the rib cage. Of course, he can't put in the posts, and ground rod in for the fence. UGH!

Not good at all.

I hope that DH is way better soon!
Scott