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Soupy, I do hope you had a very nice vacation but that drive back must have been interesting. Nice to come home to a couple feet of snow too. :lol:

When we lived in the snow belt it was a weekly chore to shovel off the roof. We just took it in stride like cleaning the driveway. Just have to be a bit careful with the shingles.
 
To give you an idea of where I came FROM, to come home to THIS mess........see pic attached.

-Soupy1957
 

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Just got home yesterday, from our vacation to Florida........out running the winter storm all the way. The folks in South Carolina were all sliding off the roads (snow & ice) from lack of experience and two-wheel drive vehicles, while we tooled along past them. Got home yesterday (Tuesday) in the morning, and all heck broke loose last night and today. Some 20 inches on the ground now, and another 13 inches expected from the same storm, before it's all over.

I have SOME wood in the house, and the piles under the tarps are buried!! Should be interesting to see tonight, as I try and figure out a way to get the tarp off the smaller stack, without getting snow on the wood underneath, that I need to bring in.

Just re-enforces my determination to get a wood shed put in place in the back yard, next summer!!

Any suggestions (other than "carefully") ????????? I'm figuring on getting the broom and brushing off the two feet plus, of snow, off the stack, before attempting to retrieve the wood.

-Soupy1957
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"I’m seriously considering getting up there and getting the snow OFF the roof. (to which she ardently disagreed!!)."

Smart Lady...hope your Vacation was fun...now get to work and fire that stove up...let's go.

Also fire up the leaf blower if you got one, it's so cold the snow won't melt on the wood and just blow it off...works great!



md
 
Well Soupy, there is a little difference...
 
Welcome back soup. Yep, get that shed done. After thirty years of no shed as soon as the mess that looked like yours half melted last Feb. I put up a shed. Behind the garage with a brick walkway. I had to dig out to the pile and then dig into them five or six times last year. This year hardly any snow but man is it nice to just roll the cart out there and load up and bring it into the breezeway.

Moving four cords up the hill into the shed was no fun but I would have expended the same labor later getting the stuff to the house.
 
Bluer skies in one. Otherwise they both have a bunch of white stuff on the ground. ;-P
 
I like the carport idea for a wood shed. Probably as cheap a roof as you can put and will last for many yrs with no maintenance. Also it can be moved or sold down the road if life changes.
 
nearly 30 inches here. Have the roof rake and got some of it off, best I can do. Now if I could just find my wood piles....
 

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if it's light snow use a leaf blower (if you have one) to get your tarps freed up. It will work on light snow if it's only a day or two old.

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The snow was powdery in the mid afternoon, but if you didn't get out there and clean it up then, you'd be "SOL" today. Temps dropping significantly during the next few days.

My neighbor came over with his snow blower (we have a guy who comes and plows the driveway, but we had dogs to get from the Kennel and couldn't wait for him), while I was cleaning the doorways and walkways, and he let me borrow it. I did a snow blower path to the wood pile, and took a school broom to the short stack wood pile tarp. Got in there and got a couple of arm loads into the house. Wood was dry of course.

-Soupy1957
 
We had that kind of snow here last year, I took the snowblower right up to and along side the wood stacks, then pulled the stuff off the top, then blew that out of the way too. In a day or two the wood was back to dry :)

I shoveled for hours on roofs around here.

If I recall we had 22 inches, then 2 or 3 days went by, then we got slammed by another 20 inches :bug:

Watch for ice damming, remove the snow from your gutters and up the roof a few inches, at least.

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and here's my dad's place.....

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Heem said:
nearly 30 inches here. Have the roof rake and got some of it off, best I can do. Now if I could just find my wood piles....
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Where are you in CT Heem . . . brother-in-law lives in Stafford Springs and my mother-in-law lives in nearby Ellington . . . they said they were right at 30 inches as well . . . my brother-in-law said he was quite tired of shoveling snow all day long.
 
firefighterjake said:
Heem said:
nearly 30 inches here. Have the roof rake and got some of it off, best I can do. Now if I could just find my wood piles....
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Where are you in CT Heem . . . brother-in-law lives in Stafford Springs and my mother-in-law lives in nearby Ellington . . . they said they were right at 30 inches as well . . . my brother-in-law said he was quite tired of shoveling snow all day long.
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I'm in East Hampton. I'm on the north side of a pretty decent sized hill, so we typically see a few more inches than even people on the bottom of the hill. After attempting to get to my wood piles this morning, I'm upping my guess to over 3 feet. (of course wind was involved here..) - As I tried to walk the 100 feet or so, the snow was at times over my waist. And I'm 6'2. Took me an hour to bring up just a few splits. I need a plan B.
 
Heem said:
I'm in East Hampton. I'm on the north side of a pretty decent sized hill, so we typically see a few more inches than even people on the bottom of the hill. After attempting to get to my wood piles this morning, I'm upping my guess to over 3 feet. (of course wind was involved here..) - As I tried to walk the 100 feet or so, the snow was at times over my waist. And I'm 6'2. Took me an hour to bring up just a few splits. I need a plan B.
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Well, we worked on building a new wood storage area this summer (16'x24'). Problem is it's at out back lot line. We get dumped with snow here also so I was trying to figure out (now... don't laugh) some kind of over-head motorized line to drag a few splits at a time up to the house. This would be kind of like the tow rope skiers use to get to the top of a hill except the tow rope would be mounted higher with a kids toboggan or something like that to drag the wood.

I need an engineer to design this........
 
I just read that Florida is the only state in the nation that doesn't have snow on the ground. Welcome back Soup.
 
ansehnlich1 said:
We had that kind of snow here last year, I took the snowblower right up to and along side the wood stacks, then pulled the stuff off the top, then blew that out of the way too. In a day or two the wood was back to dry :)

I shoveled for hours on roofs around here.

If I recall we had 22 inches, then 2 or 3 days went by, then we got slammed by another 20 inches :bug:

Watch for ice damming, remove the snow from your gutters and up the roof a few inches, at least.
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Where is here? Can you add it to you avatar info?
 
We got 17" here in Douglas, MA (boarders CT/RI line). We had about 3" before the storm so the trails had about 20". Finally had enough to take a ride.
 

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About 16" in Lincoln RI. Heavy stuff. I'm calling the plow guy for $25 next time we get over a foot of mashed potatoes like yesterday.
 
Another view of the digging out of the wood pile........
-Soupy1957
 

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We got 17" here in Douglas, MA (boarders CT/RI line). We had about 3" before the storm so the trails had about 20". Finally had enough to take a ride.
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Ok, the fun is over. Now I have to snowblow a path to the piles and break out the snow rake and shovel. No snowblower in that area. It gets better, then I lug a wheel barrel out to haul it to the covered porch (about 150 ft away). Before the snow, it was simple with a lawn tractor and utility wagon. The good thing is I have until Monday afternoon to get this done. More snow and maybe rain by Tuesday.
 

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Shari said:
Heem said:
I'm in East Hampton. I'm on the north side of a pretty decent sized hill, so we typically see a few more inches than even people on the bottom of the hill. After attempting to get to my wood piles this morning, I'm upping my guess to over 3 feet. (of course wind was involved here..) - As I tried to walk the 100 feet or so, the snow was at times over my waist. And I'm 6'2. Took me an hour to bring up just a few splits. I need a plan B.
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Well, we worked on building a new wood storage area this summer (16'x24'). Problem is it's at out back lot line. We get dumped with snow here also so I was trying to figure out (now... don't laugh) some kind of over-head motorized line to drag a few splits at a time up to the house. This would be kind of like the tow rope skiers use to get to the top of a hill except the tow rope would be mounted higher with a kids toboggan or something like that to drag the wood.

I need an engineer to design this........
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Shari, for some reason, I'm envisioning a clothesline with splits hanging from it.
I actually thought of something similar to get the wood into the house (my shed is only about 13' from the front wall of the stove room), but would still require me putting the wood on the conveyor. hmmm
 
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