Snow Fence?

[Mtsoxfan]

I understand snow fence is for drifting snow. But what are the use cases? Put it next to the driveway to stop snow from drifting across your drive? Why are you using it specifically?

For me, we have open fields to the west, and the never ending breeze/winds blow the snow from that field over our driveway. It is common for me to clear snow in morning, again at lunch and after dinner. 1 foot high drifts are the norm. And placement is a crap shoot as well, because there are few guidelines and none that pertain to our topography. Starting off 60' upwind from driveway. We'll see how that works out. Driveway is at the top of the area elevation.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

That makes sense. Let us know how it goes.

 

[gstrom99]

I understand snow fence is for drifting snow. But what are the use cases? Put it next to the driveway to stop snow from drifting across your drive? Why are you using it specifically?

It was kind of an experiment, to see if I could capture the snow for yard moisture, I guess. Seemed to work, so I'm keeping it up. Wind out here is constant and can come from any direction. The driveway bushes grew a bunch this year, so I'll see how well they work.

 

[gstrom99]

I got it up yesterday and used (US made) zip ties.

 

[ponytug]

@gstrom99 Looks nice. I would be interested to see the post snowstorm/blizzard photos. I hope that the better zip ties work for you.

When I was a kid there used be this received wisdom about prevailing wind direction and storm wind speed to set the fence distance from the road or whatever needed snow protection. Something about increased wind speed at a distance of some number of times the fence height based on wind speed. It always seemed a bit hand waving to me as how would one know the windspeed of the storm that dumped the snow you cared about? Is it still a thing?

All the best, Peter