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[George-CT]

another cow barn and horse barn coming down. The cow barn, some cows were lost, in the big indoor up the street from me, they got them out of there just in time. Fact, a few might be coming here. Really bad here...Been snowing all day again today and now going over to ice and sleet. We clean off the barn here but could get at the house roofs in the back...Major steep. I would of done it but could not get anyone else interested. Darn back is not allowing me to do much.

Ran out of plces to lush a lot of this stuff so it takes alot longer to keep moving loader buckets of it to where it will go. Oh well, another 48 days and we will be complaining about all this snow melt in everyones basement or being flooded out at the brooks etc. Just told me daughter to buy a sump pump now while they are cheaper. Flood time, they will be very valuable or so they hope. I know yesterday every place I went to looking for a 240 NEMA L14-30 plug they were sold out of generators..... I wanted the plug so I could wire each side of it up for 3 120 volt plugs on each leg.

Hey, stay safe and warm....talk to ya when the weather backs off a little here....

George-CT

My son did the barn roof for me........

 

[Wayne in BC]

is this a historic snowfall for your area? They sure are breaking snowfall records in Eastern Canada.

 

[mudpuppy]

will be faring when this cyclone hits them tomorrow...sure looks like a monster! WE had the local lumber yard roof collapse yesterday, and my danged neighbor is up shoveling his roof off now in preperation for this blizzard...the problem is, when the wife sees him doing anything like that, mowing the yard, raking leaves, shoveling his roof, she figures l should be doing the same thing!
good luck Geo!

 

[George-CT]

to many is we usually have a thaw about now, and gentle ones in between storms. Not the case this year, its all here. No melting at all. Just compressed down . With Feb and March to go, a lot more barns could go down. My neighbors was a 5 year old barn with steel truss. He siad he heard to pop pop's and it was all down in a second. Most build here for typical 40 lb snow load per square foot. Its been snowing all day, just stopped. but we have a major one right behind it with ice mix. So those usually get the power lines up this way for quite awhile. Generator handles that good enough but we usually end up cutting our way out to the road. I'k a little concerned on my room on the house as we have big open ceilings, slanted but still wide open..... Really steep. usually slide off but none of this did and tricky to get on it. My son offered today to go on it tomorrow and I'll run a tag line on him from the other side and let him inch is way down....I doubt he can walk it, its that steep..... Here is and older picture of it from about4 years ago that you can see the steepness of the back roof I'm concerned about.

Geo

 

[Micheal_R]

Hope that it slows down or stops soon for you.

We did our barns a couple of weeks back..... but since our roofs are tin, the snow does tend to slide off.

Fair winds

Micheal

 

[George-CT]

Major ice storms here right now....I'm expecting to loose power here shortly. Could be off a long time. Tree's are just starting to snap now.... Geo

 

[Buck]

Sorry about the damage up there George, but I was wondering what would happen if ya got a big heater and aimed at at the ceiling in the barn? Would it not heat the tin enough for the ice to melt a bit and slide off?

 

[George-CT]

60 to 100 feet wide clear spans, and 150 to 220 long....and really high ceilings....to the bottom of the rafters they run around 16 feet or higher for jumping... I would cost a fortune to heat them, but cheaper than rebuilding them for sure. I had thought about putting those big 1000 watt rectangler flood lamps under mine and hoping the heat from it would send it sliding. I know I spend a winter at 160 feet in the air signaling a crane on the other side of a nuke reactor vessel and all I had for heat up there was one of those flood lamps shinning on me, but it sure helped..... Funny, I was in my 3 year apprentice ship then. This was all Dec, Jan, Feb March. Come spring, a Journeymen fella, decided that was not a good job for and apprentice so he took it over. Why didn't he claim it back in the dead of winter. I got even with him years later.... We were redoing the post tensioning cables built into the concrete on this nuke plants, and we were regreasing them. He showed up. He got to be grease pump guy, messy job for 4 months. He asked, How did get this job.... told him think back to about spring time 1965 at Milstone Point Unit One. He smiled....Gotcha...... What goes around comes around.


Anyhow, bottom line on the barns, none are heated in this area....Just to costly.... We don't normally get this much snow and have it stay. Right now they just announced we have 74.3 inches here so far....with Feb and March to go..... Our record was set back in 1995-96 of 115.2 inches total..... So we could have a lot more to go.... I hope not....Another big garage/dealership just came down as I was writing this. Flat roof, and no one cleaned it off. Most have had folks with snow blowers up on them the last week.

Geo

Geo

 

[Buck]

I hear ya George!! Like I said before, I used to drive truck years ago to the produce markets from Florida to NYC & Chicago. Do not miss that at all!!! It was 36 degrees here this morning!! That is about as low as I like it! I have some young hot pepper plants started, and I am worried that this cold snap here is their end!!! Nothin compared to the cold & snow ya have there!!!!!!

 

[Royal]

Man that sucks

 

[Micheal_R]

That is only a small roof. A large riding ring... that would be a HUGE amount of work.

Calm seas

Micheal