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Should be a law against this stuff.
- Thread starter George-CT
- Start date
Yeah! We are going through quite a bit of bird seed keeping the squirrels and birds all nice and plump! The wife has given me the go ahead to thin out the squirrel crop, but I've been putting it off until I really need a few...here in west michigan we have three different color phases of squirrels, gray, red, and black...to the untrained eye, the blacks could almost pass for a mink!
WIGANMAN XLT
New member
Hi George.
Just joined site,But it looks like Wigan England last week.
Cheers Alan
Just joined site,But it looks like Wigan England last week.
Cheers Alan
Kelley (Texas)
New member
there is snow like in your pictures. What do you do to keep busy when you cannot go outdoors to do many chores? Kelley (Texas) 
Mainly cook and play games, or do a craft of some sort. To keep up with the Lake effect, a fellow has to stay out in it as it is falling...I still use a snow shovel, and yes, it is possible to wear one out!
We build some awesome sleds out of paneling, and take them down the ski hill in town early in the morning before anybodys there...since sleds are "illegal" on that hill...the last one, we came off that mountain 80 miles an hour, bailed off at the last second, and watched it hit the warming shed and explode!...then we scamper off!
We built a "plow" out of some 2x12's shaped like a wedge, and pulled it behind the truck with a chain...that was fun to ride on too!
We build some awesome sleds out of paneling, and take them down the ski hill in town early in the morning before anybodys there...since sleds are "illegal" on that hill...the last one, we came off that mountain 80 miles an hour, bailed off at the last second, and watched it hit the warming shed and explode!...then we scamper off!
We built a "plow" out of some 2x12's shaped like a wedge, and pulled it behind the truck with a chain...that was fun to ride on too!
Right now I tackle all the inside projects that I put off all summer when I can be out on the bike or at the motocross track. Been rewiring the barn as most of what I had up was temp stuff that somehow ended up staying in use. So I put in a new electric panel, GFI circuits at the heater water buckets on each wall plug and added new lights in some of the stalls and tack room. Truthfully , all were running off of one line. Now have 12 circuits available. Put the heater water each on their own, lights on their own, same with electric fence, outside lights and a few extras. InN between that, its feed the wood stove, and work on organizing my basement. That was a real mess. Everything hanging up on the floor is not a good floor plan........At least thats what my wife keeps telling me....LOL...
I also do my reloading in the winter time. Cast bullet heads, and load pistol and rifle for my summer time practice. The pistol I usually fire 6 rounds a day off the back porch. Have done that for years..... Just like to keep they eye up and the snubbie and myself up to snuff if needed. Never had a problem back here
but the more I see on the news, the more I realize if it happens, it going to be up to us to handle the problem. No cops close by here.... State police take care of this area, but they really don't hang out in this area. I seldom ever even see one on the roads here... My wife and I both like to target practice and do my kids when they are here. IN between all that is the horses and their needs... It gets hard to get around up here on the hill once all this snow turns to ice, so we kind of plan stuff out best we can. A neighbor just gave me 2 1000 lb pound round bails she got this summer. She found she could not handle them very well like the 400 lbs ones... I brought those into the barn and set them up so they can chow down them when stuck inside 24/7. We don't put them out in ice at all.
They are out today in the snow. Still decent traction now or until it packs.... My daughters horse got a back injury from falling or twisting the other day across from us at the indoor. They turn them all out together and guess they got to jerking around, and that one got hurt.... Vet check him out but said really not much to do on that, so they just put him on butte and wait it out for a week or so.... She is moving ok but ouchy....
At one time we did a lot of cross country skiing here and snowmobiling but I know longer do that. Don't need to break any bones at this age, that usually spells trouble down the road. We are ice racing tomorrow at the club pond so I will be there depending on how much more snow we get today. We usually have to plow the pond off. Even when no snow, as the tires spikes really turn up a lot of loose ice chips..... Playing on the ice is fun..... Here is a clip of our pond.... They run about 70 tops.... This is a helmet cam but wide angle setting makes it a little distorted.....
Ice racing at Hell Hollow pond,
George
I also do my reloading in the winter time. Cast bullet heads, and load pistol and rifle for my summer time practice. The pistol I usually fire 6 rounds a day off the back porch. Have done that for years..... Just like to keep they eye up and the snubbie and myself up to snuff if needed. Never had a problem back here
but the more I see on the news, the more I realize if it happens, it going to be up to us to handle the problem. No cops close by here.... State police take care of this area, but they really don't hang out in this area. I seldom ever even see one on the roads here... My wife and I both like to target practice and do my kids when they are here. IN between all that is the horses and their needs... It gets hard to get around up here on the hill once all this snow turns to ice, so we kind of plan stuff out best we can. A neighbor just gave me 2 1000 lb pound round bails she got this summer. She found she could not handle them very well like the 400 lbs ones... I brought those into the barn and set them up so they can chow down them when stuck inside 24/7. We don't put them out in ice at all.
They are out today in the snow. Still decent traction now or until it packs.... My daughters horse got a back injury from falling or twisting the other day across from us at the indoor. They turn them all out together and guess they got to jerking around, and that one got hurt.... Vet check him out but said really not much to do on that, so they just put him on butte and wait it out for a week or so.... She is moving ok but ouchy....
At one time we did a lot of cross country skiing here and snowmobiling but I know longer do that. Don't need to break any bones at this age, that usually spells trouble down the road. We are ice racing tomorrow at the club pond so I will be there depending on how much more snow we get today. We usually have to plow the pond off. Even when no snow, as the tires spikes really turn up a lot of loose ice chips..... Playing on the ice is fun..... Here is a clip of our pond.... They run about 70 tops.... This is a helmet cam but wide angle setting makes it a little distorted.....
Ice racing at Hell Hollow pond,
George
Kelley (Texas)
New member
have done some excellent planning for things to do when heavy snow and ice forces you indoors. Do you keep your horses barefoot in the winter if you are not riding them? I remember the times down here during the rainy season how the horse would step down into the mud and have the shoes sucked off the hoof. 
Things to do never end, right? Kelley (Texas)
Things to do never end, right? Kelley (Texas) gone over to the boots for them in the good weather. We can put them on or off as needed. Just need to get the right ones on them for the correct fit.
We used to add boron on the shoes in the winter or ice tabs but she only rides in the indoor in the winter unless the ground is bare. Don't have to pick the snowballs and ice out of the hoses either.... They can get pretty packed up from it. We had a cold December this year and still have to do January and February. By mid March it will start to turn for the better or for sure by end of it. I look for the warm sun rays and green grass as much as they do.
Can shut off the heaters for the water and put the plow away. Right now plowing is somewhat fun. Once it starts to be a every other day affair it looses its fun factor. I have a 8 foot plow on tractor so one shot down one side and up the other will do it. Get a big heavy wet snow and no where to push it and it can be a 4 hour job on our driveway. We are half mile off the main road. If its really wet and heavy, I use the backhoe and just push one shot down the middle to break it all up. Then angle the plow and push the edges off. Bad thing about wet snow is it freezes. The sides get hard like a bobsled run and the plow will not touch them. Just pushed the plow back to the middle.... If its slush my kid is out there running up and donw it in the 4x4 Bronco splashing it off the driveway and over the edges. More fun then work then.
Geo
We used to add boron on the shoes in the winter or ice tabs but she only rides in the indoor in the winter unless the ground is bare. Don't have to pick the snowballs and ice out of the hoses either.... They can get pretty packed up from it. We had a cold December this year and still have to do January and February. By mid March it will start to turn for the better or for sure by end of it. I look for the warm sun rays and green grass as much as they do.
Can shut off the heaters for the water and put the plow away. Right now plowing is somewhat fun. Once it starts to be a every other day affair it looses its fun factor. I have a 8 foot plow on tractor so one shot down one side and up the other will do it. Get a big heavy wet snow and no where to push it and it can be a 4 hour job on our driveway. We are half mile off the main road. If its really wet and heavy, I use the backhoe and just push one shot down the middle to break it all up. Then angle the plow and push the edges off. Bad thing about wet snow is it freezes. The sides get hard like a bobsled run and the plow will not touch them. Just pushed the plow back to the middle.... If its slush my kid is out there running up and donw it in the 4x4 Bronco splashing it off the driveway and over the edges. More fun then work then.
Geo
Kelley (Texas)
New member
It got down to 10 degrees at night and stayed in the upper teens during the day. This lasted about five days and I kept the horses boarded up in the barn. Not having heated water at the barn, I had to shut off the water rather than risk frozen and broken pipes. I put some salt on their feed so that it would force them to drink water, thus we had no colic or anything because of that cold weather. Thank goodness we did not have the snow like you folks get. Kelley (Texas)
bring them out warm water in the morning and evening or as Jane calls it, Horse Tea... They really like it and will drink it out of the buckets before we can pour it it the bigger buckets. The buckets only keep it at about 42 to 45 degree's....They only draw 260 watts so not to bad and run off their own thermostat. Some of them that they just drop in use about 1500 watts. When we first came up here, I used to use old claw foot cast iron bath tubs. Still do out side. We used to pack 3 sides with horse manure and it would pretty much keep it open in all kinds of weather. Might skim on the top if it was below zero....Those big piles generate a lot of heat. Even come early spring if we can't move it where we want because of snow and Ice, when I start moving it, there is steam coming out of it and its really pretty warm. The running brook use to stay open pretty good but this year water is down a lot more than usual so I see it freezing up pretty good already. I run and extra stand of electric wire to keep them off it when it freezes up, don't need any broken legs.... Had a deer stuck on it last year for awhile, legs went out from under her.... By the time winter comes to and end, we are glad to see green grass, peep frogs, geese flying over honking, and the return of the robins. Same year after year, but it still say to me, you made it thru another winter, relax...
George
George
