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[Caustic Burno]

It is snowing here for the third time this year.
I have seen two in a winter never three, not here.
You Yankees must be completely covered up and it is sliding down hill to here.
http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/woodvi ... t/32990_pc

 

[backhoeboogie]

Its that Al Gore global warming thing.

 

[M5farm]

It looks like it heading this way but we are supposed to be in the 60's tomorrow and weekend

 

[slick4591]

We were supposed to get just a dusting, but I know we're over an inch already. Woke up to 14 and a wind chill of zero. My Texas butt ain't used to this crap!

 

[bigbull338]

i feel for you CB its flurring here now.

 

[starbaby]

I love this weather site , thanks again cb
don't care for what it's telling me however

 

[Rafter S]

We had it here this morning too. Couple of weeks ago we had snow, ice, sleet, etc on Friday, it was in the 70's on Sunday, and the "freezing precipitation" again on Tuesday. That was fun. Nothing like two 50° temperature changes in five days.

 

[WalnutCrest]

We went from 67 and sunny to a chance of snow in four hours about two weeks ago.

 

[John SD]

Yep, us friendly folks up nort do like to share!

It was -15 here this morning. 2-3 inches of snow on the ground. Clear and sunny with no wind helps a lot.

Don't think it made it to 0 today. I checked and it's -5 at 2:30PM. Headed for -20 tonight. Siver lining is temp might get on the + side for tomorrow.

I just thought of something. There is no Brrrrr smiley on this site. Maybe this little guy is too cold? He is blue anyway and looks kinda cold. :frowns: :frowns: :frowns:

 

[MO_cows]

I feel your pain CB. Winter has been worse here than normal, too. Due to the ridiculous price of propane, we turned off the furnace and are heating the house with just space heaters. The electric bill will be obscene but still cheaper than burning $5 propane. (Don't feel sorry for us, we're not poor, just cheap. I could pay for a tank fill but choose instead to keep that money in the "new house fund")

Last month's water bill showed we used almost 20,000 gallons. No way. Deduced that the hydrant for the stock tank is leaking underground, or the line going to it. Can't dig it out until spring. So we are back to filling the tank with the stupid hose from the outside faucet on the house, and the really fun part, trying to get it all drained out each time before it freezes. That's a real challenge when it's this cold and you have to navigate thru snow drifts to travel the length of the hose. But if that hose freezes, we are back to the bucket brigade and I never want to do that chore again.

You can be president of the "Winter 2014 Sucks" club, I'll be vice-president.

 

[jedstivers]

I feel your pain CB. Winter has been worse here than normal, too. Due to the ridiculous price of propane, we turned off the furnace and are heating the house with just space heaters. The electric bill will be obscene but still cheaper than burning $5 propane. (Don't feel sorry for us, we're not poor, just cheap. I could pay for a tank fill but choose instead to keep that money in the "new house fund")

Last month's water bill showed we used almost 20,000 gallons. No way. Deduced that the hydrant for the stock tank is leaking underground, or the line going to it. Can't dig it out until spring. So we are back to filling the tank with the stupid hose from the outside faucet on the house, and the really fun part, trying to get it all drained out each time before it freezes. That's a real challenge when it's this cold and you have to navigate thru snow drifts to travel the length of the hose. But if that hose freezes, we are back to the bucket brigade and I never want to do that chore again.

You can be president of the "Winter 2014 Sucks" club, I'll be vice-president.

Can't you just bring your hose in the house?

 

[bigbull338]

mo cows draining a hose is easy.just undo the hose an put anattachment on your air hose to blow air through the water hose forcing the water out the other end.thus no more frozen hose.we blow out prolly 300ft or more of water hose when needed.

 

[John SD]

we turned off the furnace and are heating the house with just space heaters.

CAREFUL with those space heaters :!: :!: :!:

My house has a couple vented propane wall heaters. They make it very nice in front of the heater, but the heat doesn't carry on to other rooms very well. I could keep it 90 degrees in one room and the bedroom would barely be tolerable.

So I had a couple of electric milkhouse type heaters set up in the bedroom and kept the propane in the other room turned down. One electric plugged in to the bedroom outlet. One electric plugged in with an extension cord to a dining room outlet.

Woke up one morning with a strong burning plastic smell. Soon found it was the connection between the heater/extension cord. Heater was still running. Pulled the plug at the outlet.

Had to wait until the hot connection cooled a bit before I could even touch it. This was a 14ga cord in good visual conditon that had never been left outside.

I purchased a new 12ga cord and heater but this experience scared the be nice out of me and haven't had nerve to use this setup again.

I'm still using the single heater in the bedroom plugged in to the wall outlet. But one heater does not keep up so I had to crank up the propane again to compensate.

My advice: Be extremely careful when using portable electric heaters. and especially if you must use an extension cord.

BTW, I also had a functional smoke detector directly above the hot electrical connection, and the smoke detector did not go off. :???:

 

[MO_cows]

I feel your pain CB. Winter has been worse here than normal, too. Due to the ridiculous price of propane, we turned off the furnace and are heating the house with just space heaters. The electric bill will be obscene but still cheaper than burning $5 propane. (Don't feel sorry for us, we're not poor, just cheap. I could pay for a tank fill but choose instead to keep that money in the "new house fund")

Last month's water bill showed we used almost 20,000 gallons. No way. Deduced that the hydrant for the stock tank is leaking underground, or the line going to it. Can't dig it out until spring. So we are back to filling the tank with the stupid hose from the outside faucet on the house, and the really fun part, trying to get it all drained out each time before it freezes. That's a real challenge when it's this cold and you have to navigate thru snow drifts to travel the length of the hose. But if that hose freezes, we are back to the bucket brigade and I never want to do that chore again.

You can be president of the "Winter 2014 Sucks" club, I'll be vice-president.

Can't you just bring your hose in the house?

No. We would have to haul it up and down the basement steps every time. That's even harder than draining it.

 

[MO_cows]

mo cows draining a hose is easy.just undo the hose an put anattachment on your air hose to blow air through the water hose forcing the water out the other end.thus no more frozen hose.we blow out prolly 300ft or more of water hose when needed.

The air compressor lives a looooong ways from the water hose connection. I have thought about trying a little hand held vacuum that has a "blow" option, but the electricity to run it isn't conveniently located, either.

 

[MO_cows]

JohnSD - you bet, we are extremely cautious with them! No extension cords used. They are new heaters that shut off if they get jiggled/tipped. And none of us sleeps thru the night anymore, they get checked on quite a bit. No flammables close to them, they are placed out of the traffic zones, etc.

 

[John SD]

The air compressor lives a looooong ways from the water hose connection. I have thought about trying a little hand held vacuum that has a "blow" option, but the electricity to run it isn't conveniently located, either.

I wouldn't think it would take all that much air to blow out your hose. I'm thinking couple good sized portable air tanks should do it. No need to lug the compressor along.

Hose is still a "band-aid solution" though and I'm sure gets tiresome pretty fast. I''m wondering why can't you fix the hydrant now? Frozen ground should not matter much.

Recently my backhoe guy went to Mexico on vacation. His helper was stuck here on call and had to dig a couple graves while the boss was gone. I suspect our SD frost goes deeper than yours does in MO.

If it were true that backhoes could not work until the ground thawed out in the spring, we sure would have a heck of a lot of dead bodies piling up around here. :lol2: :lol2: :lol2:

 

[MO_cows]

The hydrant will have to be dug up by hand due to its location. The line was put in with a trencher a friend owns, it's broke down at the moment. So, it will have to wait. We do have a skid steer with a bucket but not enough finesse in its usage to do the deed without tearing up our shed. The hydrant and tank are in the corner of our loafing shed. Keeps the water in the shade in summer and protects from the north wind in winter. Seemed like a good idea at the time....... :roll:

 

[larryshoat]

It is snowing here for the third time this year.
I have seen two in a winter never three, not here.
You Yankees must be completely covered up and it is sliding down hill to here.
http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/woodvi ... t/32990_pc

I reckon you call anybody north of Fort Worth a "yankee" :lol: . I don't care for hot weather but I have to admit I've had enough of this. You go out every day and work all day just to try and stay even let alone accomplish anything. We've had worse winter storms but I don't remember any that have been this relentless. The cattle seem to be taking it fairly well.

Larry

 

[Fire Sweep Ranch]

mo cows draining a hose is easy.just undo the hose an put anattachment on your air hose to blow air through the water hose forcing the water out the other end.thus no more frozen hose.we blow out prolly 300ft or more of water hose when needed.

The air compressor lives a looooong ways from the water hose connection. I have thought about trying a little hand held vacuum that has a "blow" option, but the electricity to run it isn't conveniently located, either.

We are having the same issue over here. The water line freezes in the barn (we have not finished it yet, so it is exposed), so we have to hook up about 100 foot of hose to run water from the house to the barn to fill the two tanks watering three pairs that we bring in at night (because of the stupid cold that I am SOOO tired of!). If you are not quick at draining, it will freeze solid! Several times over the last week we have had to wind it up and bring it into the utility room to thaw... not fun. And, to top it off, the faucets that are hooked to the house have been freezing the last few days! First time EVER since we built our home. Kids get out the hair dryers and hit the external faucets for about 10 minutes to get it flowing again. We even have the little cups to cover the faucets to prevent freezing, but in this negative weather, nothing keeps it from freezing!!!
I really am not liking this winter.... I am sure thankful for our barn! Cows have been spending more time in there than outside. I think they just go out to eat hay, drink, and go back in!