Snow.....

TerryinMD · Jan 19, 2002

Saturday - January 19th ~ 13:00 in Sharpsburg, MD

Started to snow about 08:00 - very small, granular snow.

Currently about 2" on the ground. Tractor has been fitted with the FEL and rear blade, ready to go to work.

Terry

WVBill · Jan 19, 2002

About 13:30 down the road from you here in Summit Point WV. Started just before it did for you. Now looks to be about 3" on the ground. Real small flakes so it's not building up too quickly. It had slacked off for the last hour or so but it's starting back up now.

Kubota's saddled up ready to ride (box blade on the back and snow blade adapted to the FEL) out in the barn (see attached picture) - hope we get enough to push around - both for the fun of it and for the ground water for the wells!

cowboydoc · Jan 19, 2002

Hey Bill did you ever get the inside of your barn finished? Looks great from the outside.

WVBill · Jan 19, 2002

Thanks for the complement, Richard.

Can't say that I'll ever be "finished" - but it's a functional workshop now. I just scanned through my digital photos and realize I don't have any of the inside. I'll snap a couple later and post them.

ronjhall · Jan 19, 2002

Bill
Got my chains on today. But no new snow to use them on.

14 degrees this morning.

At 16:00 the sun is shining and temperature has gone up to 31 degrees.

Looks like the bad weather took the southern route this time. /w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif

Enjoy the snow. /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif

Thomas · Jan 19, 2002

Now here a man that just admitted who wants to play in the snow /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif come on up Terry,for the weather station said 3+ inches for us,and its snowing as of now.

Devildog · Jan 19, 2002

Well my tires are finally clean from playing. I just wish we would of got the 10" they where calling for but Im happy with the little bit we got/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
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Take care all, Jim

frank_f15 · Jan 19, 2002

terry sorry it ain't snowing harder for u, but if u feel like u ned to move snow come on up. see attachment/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Thomas · Jan 20, 2002

Nice lights!! If you want to enjoy plowing,try plowing on a full full night w/no lights. The weather station said you folk now have tie the Atlanta for snow fall this year. /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif
It has been mild winter,but winter not over yet. /w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif

DrDan · Jan 20, 2002

Yes Bill,

Your shop looks really neat. I really like the french doors. They really set it off! Do you have a woodstove in there?

DrDan

WVBill · Jan 20, 2002

As it turned out, we didn't get much more than the 3" or so that was on the ground early yesterday afternoon.

Un-deterred by the fact that there was really no reason to plow, I got out on the Kubota this morning anyway. (Picture attached). I ended up back-dragging with the front blade set about 1" off the gravel. Going forward it just dug in and wanted to doze the gravel - snow not deep enough/gravel not frozen enough.

WVBill · Jan 20, 2002

Here are a couple of pictures of the inside of the shop.

The shop occupies the left side of the barn. In total it is 12' X 32' and I have it sectioned by a wall into to rooms 12 x 12 and 12 x 20. The smaller is a "clean room" for painting, finshing and my wife's ceramic studio. These pictures are of the larger section.

WVBill · Jan 20, 2002

Here's a picture of one side of the smaller room.

We found the Hoosier-style cabinet at an antique dealer in Gerardstown WV and brought it home to re-finish and re-hab it for our kitchen.

ronjhall · Jan 20, 2002

Bill
At least you got a chance to use your tractor. Looks like you got a paint job to do on the barn next summer. Is it going to be <font color=red>red</font color=red>?

RPM · Jan 20, 2002

I was out playing with my BX today ... had 4-5" here. Had to try out the skid shoes and back blade! Results - without chains can plow around 9" going forward. Was pushing around 2ft snow piles going backwards. Can't wait for a bigger fall.

One thing that made me chuckle - my wife observed that I took just as long playing in the snow this winter as I did last winter with just a snow-shovel. /w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif

Patrick

WVBill · Jan 21, 2002

Actually, Ron - how to finish the outside of the barn was going to be my next question to the TBN group. I'll probably post it under "Projects" or "Rural Living" for wider viewing.

I'm thinking of going white but I want to use something that will last a long time. Considering solid color stain vice paint. Any thoughts?

ronjhall · Jan 21, 2002

Bill
My house and garage are sided in Vinyl. House was done in 1972 and has held up very well. I have had to make a couple of repairs from holes made by stones thrown by a lawn mower.

Pole barn is metal. Put up in 1984. I have not had any repairs to it yet.

Hip roof barn was built in 1959. Lower walls are cinder block. Painted with red barn paint from Sears. The ends of the hip roof are cedar lap. Painted with same red paint as lower portion. The ends have required some maintance every couple of years. I'm going to replace the ends with something that requires less maintance. I don't think it will be vinyl because one end faces the west. It gets hit with all the weather. May put up metal on the ends.

I don't like to paint. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif I hope to have all exterior surfaces maintance free after the barn ends are replaced.

My neighbor's barn is sided in T104. It is stained. Looks good, but he will have to do it again in a couple of years. His is 40 X 50'. That will be quite a few gallons of stain and time to complete job.