The Quack Shack

[Luv Ducks]

I have heart from a neighbor who has a propane tank that the lines from the tank to the house can freeze during cold winter days…

This whole unit stays inside, not outside. The tank fits in the back of the Mr. Heater and therefore no chance of anything freezing up. We heated out house with propane for years before natural gas came through where I am and we never had any frozen lines. Even when it was -19 degrees F, below 0! we were just fine.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

"Keep a laptop charged all day or even run a 32” TV for up to 2 hours with a single 18V ONE+ 4Ah battery."

18 V x 4 Ah = 72 Wh, so yes it should work out fine for your heater for 2-3 hrs, or more if you have more than a single battery to plug into it.

Well, you can »keep a laptop charged all day« with a triple a battery if you don't turn it on…
I had a total of four batteries, two 2Ah and two 8Ah but one of the smaller seems to have died recently.
Even though they charge an arm and a leg for these batteries, they are still much cheaper than a power station. And i have almost hacked into the communication between the battery pack and the devices/chargers so that i will be able to build my own batteries soon.

 

[Supercow]

Well, you can »keep a laptop charged all day« with a triple a battery if you don't turn it on…

That was my reaction as well

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

After de-icing my drive-way for the third time within a week - almost slid into the creek yesterday afternoon - i am desperately looking for that fast-forward to March button…
The ducks are ready for spring too, here's a clip from Saturday after we got another round of snow:

An ice cold wind is currently howling around the house, forcing the duckies to seek shelter in their house. Fortunately the sunshine of the last two days baked the surface of the snow into a solid ice-sheet and there's no snow-drift…

 

[Canadian Wind]

After de-icing my drive-way for the third time within a week - almost slid into the creek yesterday afternoon - i am desperately looking for that fast-forward to March button…
The ducks are ready for spring too, here's a clip from Saturday after we got another round of snow:

An ice cold wind is currently howling around the house, forcing the duckies to seek shelter in their house. Fortunately the sunshine of the last two days baked the surface of the snow into a solid ice-sheet and there's no snow-drift…

How do you de-ice the driveway? Mine is also fairly steep and I've slid on it and at some point I can't even get the car up it!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

How do you de-ice the driveway? Mine is also fairly steep and I've slid on it and at some point I can't even get the car up it!

I used, what we called a coal-shovel in my youth after i broke the plastic snow-shovel. That coal-shovel has a straight edge and is made of iron of some kind. Heavy as a grizzly-bear just before hibernation and sturdy as a Sherman tank.
The ice-plate on my driveway didn't stood a chance! - Same as my back and my shoulders…
And then i applied a generous amount of de-icing salt-mix to the parts where a thin layer of ice was still hanging on to the concrete.
I seriously thought about to use a diesel/gas mixture or explosives…

And then look about that chit:

Since i live here since 2018 we have never had temperatures approaching negative 20° Celsius!
This morning the electric heater barely kept the part of my patio that i sectioned off for the swiss-chard plants above freezing.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Happy
Weird Weather Wednesday
to everybody!​

Minus 12° (10F) outside here in the morning!
The duck's soup bowl was a frozen piece of granit and they outright refused to make a single step out of their house. The snow-cover sounded - and felt like breaking glass when i walked over to open the duck house door, which was frozen in place.
Now it is bright sunshine outside, not a single cloud in the sky and still -3°(26)…

 

[Supercow]

I used, what we called a coal-shovel in my youth after i broke the plastic snow-shovel. That coal-shovel has a straight edge and is made of iron of some kind. Heavy as a grizzly-bear just before hibernation and sturdy as a Sherman tank.
The ice-plate on my driveway didn't stood a chance! - Same as my back and my shoulders…
And then i applied a generous amount of de-icing salt-mix to the parts where a thin layer of ice was still hanging on to the concrete.
I seriously thought about to use a diesel/gas mixture or explosives…

And then look about that chit:
View attachment 4028287
Since i live here since 2018 we have never had temperatures approaching negative 20° Celsius!
This morning the electric heater barely kept the part of my patio that i sectioned off for the swiss-chard plants above freezing.

Wow, that's a lot of minus C, especially over the day, are you sure you haven't been transported into Far North Virginia?

... Come to think of it, you know, what if this is the Canadians organizing subtle hints what would happen if the country were to be taken over by the USA...

 

[Canadian Wind]

I used, what we called a coal-shovel in my youth after i broke the plastic snow-shovel. That coal-shovel has a straight edge and is made of iron of some kind. Heavy as a grizzly-bear just before hibernation and sturdy as a Sherman tank.
The ice-plate on my driveway didn't stood a chance! - Same as my back and my shoulders…
And then i applied a generous amount of de-icing salt-mix to the parts where a thin layer of ice was still hanging on to the concrete.
I seriously thought about to use a diesel/gas mixture or explosives…

And then look about that chit:
View attachment 4028287
Since i live here since 2018 we have never had temperatures approaching negative 20° Celsius!
This morning the electric heater barely kept the part of my patio that i sectioned off for the swiss-chard plants above freezing.

Ah, no. Was hoping for some trick or something, not physical work! LOL

I will trade you my forecast for yours! We're not out of freezing temps for a while. Monday is supposed to be -23 overnight.

 

[Luv Ducks]

I used, what we called a coal-shovel in my youth after i broke the plastic snow-shovel. That coal-shovel has a straight edge and is made of iron of some kind. Heavy as a grizzly-bear just before hibernation and sturdy as a Sherman tank.
The ice-plate on my driveway didn't stood a chance! - Same as my back and my shoulders…
And then i applied a generous amount of de-icing salt-mix to the parts where a thin layer of ice was still hanging on to the concrete.
I seriously thought about to use a diesel/gas mixture or explosives…

And then look about that chit:
View attachment 4028287
Since i live here since 2018 we have never had temperatures approaching negative 20° Celsius!
This morning the electric heater barely kept the part of my patio that i sectioned off for the swiss-chard plants above freezing.

It is bitterly cold here too Frank. We will get down to -8 and -6 F next week. We were spoiled by the last two mild winters. So far so good with the ducks but next week I am not sure how they will feel about it. They have plenty of warm water buckets, 7 for sure and lots of food and shelter so hopefully all will go well. Last year at 2 below F they were all fine. Funny when I leave for work in the early AM around 4:45 they don't tell me Goodbye when they are hunkered down staying warm, lol. Any other time they are squaking their heads off saying, hey, if you have to get up that early we'll make sure your neighbors do too!!! LOL