Latitude 42?ø and our building code wants footings to be 42" down. I suppose that goes for water supply lines, too.
It was so cold, the penguins were migrating south....
6' minimum
Well this winter I was working like a banshee.?ÿ Using a 10lb sledge to put monuments in frozen ground.?ÿ Discovered I have numbing in my toes and lower leg.?ÿ Went for an MRI and found out I got a bulge in my disk affecting a nerve.?ÿ Well if things don't improve may be my last year surveying.?ÿ No more spuds or bull pricks for me.?ÿ Crapola.
When you're saying monuments, are you talking about just driving irons, or are you meaning like those BLM 3" pipes with caps, or concrete monuments ?
If it were my choice, there are those gas or electric rotary drills that are getting some good hours out of a battery now.?ÿ
Today is going to be fun.?ÿ ?ÿNeed to feed the cows and search for any new calves.?ÿ Several have arrived this week.?ÿ Cows tend to be affected by significant weather changes, speeding up the birth of calves.
Current temp is 1F with a feels like of -15 F.?ÿ Shows a 17 mph breeze out of the NE but that must be coming later. a bit of snow is gently landing now.?ÿ I would guess between 1 and 2 inches added overnight.
It rarely gets this cold here.?ÿ I think it has been several years.
One source of weather data says our high will be 3 F while another source promises 8 F.?ÿ On a percentage basis that is an outstanding range of error.
It is so cold this morning that the ice in the air created a rainbow arch around the sun. Called a sun dog.?ÿ
-27F yesterday morning, up to -22F today.?ÿ
Hopefully it breaks today.?ÿ
Currently 34f in Puyallup, with about 8" of snow on the ground. it'll all be gone in a couple days...
This morning, SWMBO's I phone, my cell phone doesn't take pictures this good.?ÿ
I bought a Chinese jack hammer and my spud bar is rusting in the back of the truck.
One benefit of having Neuropathy. My feet turn blue, but they don't feel cold. When they thaw out they don't hurt either.
Just got in.?ÿ Have been out since about 10:30 doing farm related work, including moving about 20 big bales of hay from a field seven miles from the nearest cattle herd.?ÿ I think the high was 4 or 5 F.?ÿ I'm certain the wind chill was well below zero the entire time, but I was inside the truck cab 95 percent of the time.?ÿ The good news is that all of the calves seem to be enduring the cold fine so far.?ÿ Had to feel sorry for one calf whose mother decided a warm spot for it was inside a briar patch.?ÿ It came out to join the party surrounding the feed bunks, trying to understand why its mother would not turn around and pay attention to it.?ÿ She had her head buried in the bunk consuming the intake that junior would get to enjoy after sufficient internal processing to convert it to milk.
Some people get all the fun..
