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  • #41
    Clearing this side is tomorrow's project and hoping things already cleared don't re-drift tonight
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    • #42
      As a Florida gal who has been whining and complaining about our cold wet weather I guess I just better shut up. I have one word for all of this snow: UNBELIEVABLE
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      • #43
        Originally posted by siegi b. View Post
        Rub it in, Oakstable, rub it in....

        In answer to your question though, a spring house is a little house that is built directly over a spring, something they used to do in the olden days to protect the water and to use the space as cold storage. Spring water is always the same temperature, somewhere around 55 degrees. Put a little stone house over it and you can store fruit and veggies there plus put your bottled beverages in the water for a perfect drinking temperature.

        The spring house on our property is over 200 years old...... If I find a picture of it I'll send it to you.
        Our farm has plenty of springs though no actual spring HOUSE over any of them! House is circa 1851 so perhaps at one time it did, though I have not seen any foundation ruins. We do have a smokehouse though!! And our well is a 40 foot deep hand dug one.....that IS in the basement...
        One property we looked at when farm shopping (it was only a few blocks from us here) had the spring running through the basement of the house. The main house WAS the spring house. Old timey built in refrigerator! Just head to the basement....brings new meaning to a "wet basement"!
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        • #44
          Siegi, actually, it is pretty nasty, atleast where I am, which is the desert. The flooding and mudslides are awful and we have so many road closures it's hard to get anywhere. Palm Springs is below sea level and with this kind of rain, it can be dangerous. It's lovely when it is over though, the snow on the mountain tops is gorgeous. This rain is just about as bizarre as the snow back east. I keep looking at friends' pics from back east. I miss the snowfall but not the aftermath. Bugs and Frodo may be wet, but they are NOT cold and neither are in an area that I am worried about flooding.

          Stay safe guys back east!! I hope Tuesday's storm is an easy one.
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          • #45
            We are in No. Virginia, and got about 2 1/2 feet. Hoping to get gates cleared tomorrow so the horses can go out Monday, but we probably will not get the driveway cleared until sometime Tuesday? I am really done with this winter.
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            • #46
              OMG Darlyn - that is unbelievable, especially for your neck of the woods!

              siegi - a "spring house" sounds so cool! Our place is about 125 years old and we dont have a "spring house". I wonder if there is some place we can erect one ...

              I'd love to see a pic of one if you have it ...
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              • #47
                Our spring house feeds a small pond, which has a mighty overflow going right now. We too have a well in the basement, put it was modernized with a pipe and cap at some point. (house and barns date back to the late 1700's.
                There are now three foot icicles hanging off the roof, windy and a high only in the twenties.
                The road was drifted shut yesterday, and since no cars are going by, I suspect the wind has closed it again.
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                • #48
                  Good heavens Darlyn! We have a tractor just like that! I can't imagine it! We have a blade on the back of ours and that was sufficient last weekend for our 8 inches...but I do see that it would not work on that much heavy snow!

                  I had one of my broodmares last night at feeding time that was shivering badly...and this girl is never cold. Her hair was soaked to the skin and in that wind and falling temps...she just could not warm up. She has a shed but was not using it as well as a round bale to eat.

                  I pulled a blanket off of one of my geldings in the main barn and gave it to her. Poor mare never wore a blanket in her life but she stood like a pro to get this one on. She seemed perplexed by it at first but they strolled off much happier. The mare is due in April and is quite big...but luckily the blanket fit her. I think that is the first time I've ever blanketed one of my mares.

                  I was telling my barn helper that I'm going to buy a bunch of blankets to just keep in reserve if future winters are going this direction also. I had one blanket get trashed last week by the geldings playing so the one who lost his blanket last night to the broodmare is now wearing an antique New Zealand rug I had laying around still. I should take a picture of it for old times sake!

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                  • #49
                    It took my husband and son hours just to be able to get the tractor to move. Tractors need space to work, and it has the modified turf tires, not the ag tires - big mistake. It gets stuck a LOT. It is the smallest compact tractor JD makes, with a 54" bucket, so it holds about 1/2 a wheelbarrow at a time. Could melt before we get out of here. My driveway is about 400 feet long.

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                    • #50
                      Darlyn - out of curiosity, how much snow do you guys usually get down there? A few inches at best?

                      We will generally get a couple of storms like this each winter, so its a definate PITA for us to deal with, but we have the equipment and the experience (unfortunately!) to manage it because we've gone through so many, so many times before and the roads are generally all ploughed by early or mid morning and by the time noon rolls around we've cleared most or all of the snow on our property. And in a worst case scenario, if our little tractor gets bogged down, all of the farmers around us have these honking huge 50-60-125hp tractors that we can call up and they can come and assist and have us cleaned up lickety split ...

                      My husband's family lives in the UK and with the awful storms theyve been having they simply dont have the equipment to deal with it, and most of their plows cant make it onto the country roads let alone clear the smaller residential roads and they ran out of "grit" to spread on the roads and were saving what they had left for the major motorways only

                      So those areas with little experience with this stuff are completely crippled if and when it does occur ...
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                      • #51
                        Usually we get 2 or 3 snows per year that amount to 4 to 6". Nothing we have to shovel for, and can drive the small cars thru it with a bit of care.

                        We have gotten one of the 1 to 2' storms about once every 10 years.

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                        • #52
                          So glad to see the sun this morning - and so glad my son got up early and made it over here to plow before he goes to work. That's him on the tractor. A couple of other pictures for those of you who don't get to see snow very often.

                          Another storm is predicted for Tuesday/Wednesday - but only 6" or so. It was below zero this AM, so what we have is not going anywhere fast.

                          All horses, donkey, barn cats doing fine. If the horses decide to go out and play in the snow, I'll try to get some pictures.

                          Ever so grateful that the electricity has remained on. I know some others are not so fortunate.
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                          • #53
                            Daryln, ours is the same tractor I think...the 4010 model? We have the turf tires also which is really lousy for our mud mess also. It has a belly mower and that is most of what it ever did before we bought it. Our bucket is small also.

                            I wonder if they make a snowblower attachment for this model? It might be worth it! We have a set of forks for ours also.

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                            • #54
                              Lavender Farm, Ummm, when can I move in??? Lovely lovely house!
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                              • #55
                                Originally posted by Daydream Believer View Post
                                Daryln, ours is the same tractor I think...the 4010 model?
                                Mine is a 650. http://www.tractordata.com/farm-trac...deere-650.html A 4010 would be a lot bigger.

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                                • #56
                                  Ok, here are some pictures I took today.....

                                  One of them shows the spring house, the girl is Lauren who comes and helps me occasionally.

                                  http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...elz/lauren.jpg
                                  http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...pringhouse.jpg
                                  http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...lerandDivo.jpg
                                  http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...threefoals.jpg
                                  http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e.../threedogs.jpg
                                  Last edited by siegi b.; Feb. 7, 2010, 06:12 PM.
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                                  • #57
                                    Lauren is kneeling in the snow, right?

                                    Cute little spring house!!

                                    LA Times lead story today reports dozens of homes damaged or destroyed in mud slides in La Canada Flintridge.
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                                    • #58
                                      Lauren is STANDING in the snow!!
                                      Siegi Belz
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                                      • #59
                                        Originally posted by siegi b. View Post
                                        Lauren is STANDING in the snow!!
                                        ok off topic but those are lovely German Shepherds...and poor Lauren...but at least she is old enough to be able to relate this in 60 years...tell me is she making "hazard pay" in this stuff?

                                        Tamara in TN
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                                        • #60
                                          Hi Tamara,

                                          they're Shiloh Shepherds, not that it's that much different... and no, Lauren doesn't get hazard pay - she was just visiting! :-)

                                          Best,
                                          Siegi
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