Maine weather this year..

Dan Gray

Dan Gray

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ok here's what I was up to last week..
http://www.knivesby.com/bfc/shop-storm/storm08.html
you'll see in the link I've been Busy..
these are some pictures I took of my roof that came down from a heavy storm..
by looking at the why?
it's one of those cases, I should have built it myself and not hired it out I guess :o

other than looking like to much snow,, Mike, the guy I had built this roof for me, he did not spike the joist plate to the wall, he used nails instead and even some of them missed most of the studs in the wall and were just hanging on to the boards, needless to say it would have held much more weight if the plate was spiked to the wall properly.
 
'Joyce plate ' ??? No wonder it came down .If he had put in a 'joist plate' it would have worked !!!
 
I used 8" bolts through the wall with a 2" X 12" on the inside. Worked great this year. This was after it fell down due to me forgetting to even nail it right. Doubled up on the rafters too. One every 12" where the snow comes off the barn roof and pounds it. Took seven feet of wet snow this year. If I rememberI sometimes add a vertical pole under the Beam during winter.
 
the next one I put up rebuilding it this summer will not come down I'll bet you :D
most all the other roofs I've built are from trusses ( I hope I spelled that right ;) ) that I built from 2"x6" not with 2x4 you see so often.


the main shop is two story with a gambrel type roof, but with an upper roof that is held up by trusses I made from real full sized 2"x6" from hemlock, I've never shoveled it off and I don't plan to start now..


but I will be putting up some steel roofing this summer :thumbup: .. so The freaking insurance company will insure me again.

well, we have about 3" of sleet and ice so far today,, most of the schools around have been cancled..
whoopee :rolleyes:
 
Wow, I've only been exposed to snow a few times in my life, during our Alabama blizzard back in 90something and on military deployments. That's a freaking mess and I'm very happy to live down here and dodge tornadoes and hurricanes.

Just curious, do you guys actually enjoy all that snowy mess? I like to visit it but don't want it to be regular part of my life. Not being a smart ass I just hated putting on snow chains on the Hummer, cleaning snow off the tents and just the whole mess.
 
Will Leavitt said:
Wow, I've only been exposed to snow a few times in my life, during our Alabama blizzard back in 90something and on military deployments. That's a freaking mess and I'm very happy to live down here and dodge tornadoes and hurricanes.

Just curious, do you guys actually enjoy all that snowy mess? I like to visit it but don't want it to be regular part of my life. Not being a smart ass I just hated putting on snow chains on the Hummer, cleaning snow off the tents and just the whole mess.
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I think the older we get the less we like it up.over here.. speaking for myself ..
it's just a matter of what you were brought up in I guess, we think about what we hear on the news about, tornadoes, hurricanes, sink holes and the like in the south..
we even think about the guys in AK, they have this stuff a lot and at times only use snowmobiles in the winter so again we think we have it easy..
but the problems in the south are even sounding pretty good to me about now..
Chains??? only on shear ice here would we even think about chains..
most never on a 4 WD , I often wonder why people in NY buy Jeeps???? :confused: it must to be attract the ladies or something,;) since AMC bought Jeep out they don't make a true jeep and longer it's a name now.. IMHO ;)
 
We put chains on our Hummers in Bosnia and Kosovo. In Kosovo we had 84" of snow in December alone. I've seen HMMETs (8 wheeled cargo vehicles) that were parked just slide off the road due to icing.

Yeah, I've got some Aleut buddies (Nome Scouts) that I went to Infantry school with that from what they say about winter up there in the Artic Circle makes me very, very thankful to live down here.
 
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