From: Snag_one@msn.com   
      
   On 8/28/2025 8:52 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:   
   > On 8/28/2025 6:40 PM, Snag wrote:   
   >> On 8/28/2025 7:47 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   >>> "Snag"  wrote in message news:108q22o$1gasg$1@dont-email.me...   
   >>>   
   >>>    I'm using a base of used steel roofing , pad is 12 feet by about 30 .   
   >>> I cover my piles with a tarp , sides left open and I leave a space   
   >>> between rows for air circulation .   
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   >>>   
   >>> I tried tarps and several other unsuccessful ways to keep the wood   
   >>> dry and support a heavy snow load before reluctantly investing in the   
   >>> corrugated steel roofing panels on heavy table-like frames made   
   >>> partly of logs. My property is mostly forest that drops rotted   
   >>> branches which dent but rarely puncture the galvy roofing. I restore   
   >>> it with a plastic hammer over a water pipe anvil on sawhorses. At   
   >>> first I screwed the panels down as recommended but that hindered   
   >>> re-use elsewhere after straightening, so now I screw one down-turned   
   >>> edge to the beams to prevent shifting and bolt the corners together,   
   >>> a screwed-down edge to an overlapping free one. Various scrap tied   
   >>> over the top prevents the wind from lifting them and the edge and   
   >>> corner holes don't leak onto shed contents when moved elsewhere. Many   
   >>> tiedowns are the warped and twisted PT cull from HD and Lowe's.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>    If we get over 3" of snow here the whole fuckin' county shuts down   
   >> . Seriously , these people just ain't equipped to deal with snow .   
   >> Where I grew up (Box Elder County Utah) 2-3 feet on the ground on the   
   >> valley floor wasn't unusual . Last winter we got 7-8" from one storm   
   >> that shut everything down for a week . My biggest problem was that I   
   >> hadn't dismounted the mower deck from Rusty and it was dragging in the   
   >> snow beyond the ends of the front blade . The 4WD Yanmar ain't gonna   
   >> have that problem ... I just realized I think I have a set of chains   
   >> that will fit the front wheels of the Yanmar! Great news in case we   
   >> get ice . "Whither thy front wheels go , the rest will follow as   
   >> surely as day follows night" .   
   >   
   >   
   > Utah is something.  I rolled in to Salt Lake to join up with an outfit I   
   > worked for in Early September once.  I got a hotel room for the night,   
   > and when I looked out the window in the morning there was snow or ice   
   > (not sure which, but it looked like snow) on all the roof tops.  For   
   > Utah, Salt Lake isn't even cold country.   
   >   
   > In the low lands I'm used to we don't usually even see any jacket   
   > weather until around Halloween.   
   >   
      
      Useta be that we expected first snow around the opening of deer   
   season , which was the Saturday after October 20th IIRC . I grew up   
   about a hundred miles north of SLC and about a hundred yards from the   
   foot of the Wasatch Face . Survey marker in the foundation of the old   
   electric train station across the road from our house said we were at   
   just over 4400 feet elevation .   
   --   
   Snag   
   We live in a time where intelligent people   
   are being silenced so that   
   stupid people won't be offended.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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