What's the temperature where you are???

[Ponypoor]

This roof, 45 degrees slope, or even a little higher. The stove there is small, it is in the corridor, separated from the goats by a fence. In this corridor there is no bedding, and there are no wooden floors laid on top of the concrete, here the floor is bare concrete, the walls are made of blocks, so it is quite safe to heat the wood stove. The only thing. I had to bring the pipe around the roof, because hay (bales) is often stored in the attic. Of course, I put them away from the stove and stove pipe. But still - I was afraid to run the stove pipe directly and had to run it around. The pipe is welded from fairly heavy and thick metal (about 10 mm thick), in addition, it has a number of additional supports and struts going down, so the snow does not break it. Regarding the animals - I lead a "semi-parasitic" lifestyle. The thing is that there are quite long power lines here, and the state always cuts down the trees under them so that they don't fall on these wires. As a result, I always have whole piles of free branches with leaves. Well, and I got goats of the Russian breed, who really like these branches.
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On topic - the temperature hasn't changed. It's still -7C. I'll go to bed soon, because it's 5am here. I just lit the stove first, and then for some reason sat down at the computer to play games, and now I need to go to bed urgently. I light the stove at night because the coldest temperature here is usually at 4am. For some reason, the cold always sets in towards morning. That's why I need to light the stove just before that.

I didn't nail the boards on the front attic sheathing, it was two workers from Tajikistan, they are not carpenters, so they nailed them a little crooked. I just trusted them with this sheathing, because I was busy with other work. Although I personally erected the roof. It is built partly from timber bought with money, partly from some fir trees and even maples growing on my property.

That is usually how they install the wood stoves here also, and many use
Wood stoves in their workshops, There is an abundance of wood here for stoves. Almost everyone have a woodstove or fireplace in their homes also. Gets really chilly in the winter, and it helps with the cost of heating one’s home. Or workshop, shed or barn.

Yes the coldest part of the day is early morning - it was -20c this morning but warmed up to -9C fairly quickly with the sunshine.

You should post some photos of your goats! I would love to get goats I have friends that have them for meat, they are such smart creatures.

 

[Ponypoor]

I want to jump in that.

You go right ahead - but I must warn you - it’s froze solid! When snow gets moved around the individual snow particles rub together cause friction, which creates heat, which melts a bit then when it stops moving freezes instantly.

That’s why the crap at the end of the driveway the snow plow leaves behind is so hard to remove.

And you can imagine that snow on the barn roof sat there for over 5 weeks accumulating snow to about 18” or more which weighted the bottom layer down melting it to form a layer of ice - yep it’s easy walking on now that it’s on the ground - I’ll try to get a photo tomorrow.

Winter and snow is not my favourite time of year. But seeing has how I live in an ‘arctic’ country I had to learn all about snow - same as anyone in a tropical country would learn about heat and humidity.

Weather and climate is actually very fascinating!

 

[Ponypoor]

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Oh how lovely 60 degrees would be I envy you, but soon enough I will have warm weather here, and black flies and mosquitoes

 

[Debbie292d]

Sunday: 1:20pm, 80°F, dew point 58°F, humidity 48%, wind SE @ 23mph, clear.
Expected high today 81°F, almost there, most likely will be higher! Have i mentioned I hate wind!

It seems it's always windy here too and I don't remember it being this bad so hopefully it settles down for all of us!

 

[Debbie292d]

I find my allergies are bad when the snow melts due to snow mold.

The damp cold weather is hard on all animals and people. My horses are good with this -20C weather, but when it rains they are miserable. Horses and cattle are Plains and Steppes animals, they are good with cold dry and hot dry weather.

But if it’s damp or rainy that’s when they have issues.

By tomorrow the temps are supposed to jump up to -1C!

And rain Tuesday and Wednesday (+5C both days) and rain on all that snow on roof tops is bad news - we have had so many roof collapses on houses barns and sheds this winter. I hope and
Pray my snow load and any rain won’t harm my roof.

As it is one section of my roof has an ice dam causing moisture to back up under the steel roofing and now it’s inside my wall, dripping water. I will have to rip that wall open and remove the insulation and repair the wall. But only after I can get the ice dam broke up and removed. Going to be a lot of chipping with the hammer chisel and hatchet.

By next winter I will have heat trace cable on the roof to melt any ice build up there.

A few years ago, finally spent a wad and got seemless, covered gutters put on the house. We border a forest plus have trees in our yard, and found out we could grow oak and maple trees great in our gutters before that. Then we put the old gutters on the coop that has a steel roof. I wonder if you could find some used gutters for cheap. Those would sure help I'd think.

 

[Debbie292d]

25F, low 24F. Gusts to 15 mph.

High was 49 today. Was so nice, albeit the wind.

 

[chrissynemetz]

46°F mostly cloudy and windy
12:23 a.m.

 

[Jenbirdee]

 

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[Ponypoor]

A few years ago, finally spent a wad and got seemless, covered gutters put on the house. We border a forest plus have trees in our yard, and found out we could grow oak and maple trees great in our gutters before that. Then we put the old gutters on the coop that has a steel roof. I wonder if you could find some used gutters for cheap. Those would sure help I'd think.

I need to chop up that ice dam on the roof first, I think the gutter I have there is fine, it’s just pulled free of the house.

The ice is my big worry. I have an idea - if I drill holes in a line I think I can fracture the ice along the line and get the ice down. They do this in quarries to cut rock.

I will give it a try, hopefully ot works.