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gcreekrch

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.....to enjoy the weather.

Yesterday morning was -20C, snowing and 20 to 40 mph winds. Not a blizzard by any means but ugly enough. It snowed all day and only accumulated about 2 inches.
Morrison Meadow gate.
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Yardsite at MM
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In the afternoon I went for a load of hay at the neighbors. Headed out loaded, GVW about 31,500 lbs, have a wide mskeg and a river to cross to get back to their buildings.
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On the muskeg.
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Going over the Dean River on the ice bridge. There is 20 inches of ice, ten feet of water and 30 to 40 feet of mud underneath me.
Yes, that black thing IS a muskrat house.
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Hey Gcreek, that brings back a few of memories. I broke threw the keg one spring with a water truck. The front stayed up and the back kinda floated on the tank once I pumped my load off. Do you try to keep your track clear of snow to freeze harder? None of that kind of condition down here where water is a little harder to find. Only one ice bridge but it is only a few feet deep and it is used as a crossing in the summer. :?
 
per said:
Hey Gcreek, that brings back a few of memories. I broke threw the keg one spring with a water truck. The front stayed up and the back kinda floated on the tank once I pumped my load off. Do you try to keep your track clear of snow to freeze harder? None of that kind of condition down here where water is a little harder to find. Only one ice bridge but it is only a few feet deep and it is used as a crossing in the summer. :?
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The guy that has this place was born there and is pretty good at making his road every year. He starts by going back and forth with a snowmachine and once there is enough ice on the river to cross the tractor he will keep it ploughed to the ground and ice. He checks the ice quite often with a powersaw for depth.
 
He needs one of those radar sleds they use up north on the lakes. Can't remember if it is radar or ultrasonics but they just pull it along with a snow cat and it measures and records the thickness. What's the alternative? Is it a long way around?
 
It would be about the same distance from here but would mean plowing out about 6 miles of pretty ugly bush road to use that route. When this couple puts this hay up it is a 20 mile around move for their equipment and a short canoe trip back and forth while they are haying.
 
I can't amagein livein and survivein up there. Down here, we might cut a cord of wood to get by a winter. I seen my wife run the ac at christmas so we could have a fire. I've put hay out in cold weather, but it was never a dangerous undertakein. I had to bust ice out of the water troughs this year and enjoyed it. A rare thing for down here. Yall are a tough bunch of cowboys. I got a lot of respect for yall.
 
cowhunter said:
I can't amagein livein and survivein up there. Down here, we might cut a cord of wood to get by a winter. I seen my wife run the ac at christmas so we could have a fire. I've put hay out in cold weather, but it was never a dangerous undertakein. I had to bust ice out of the water troughs this year and enjoyed it. A rare thing for down here. Yall are a tough bunch of cowboys. I got a lot of respect for yall.
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Ya for a bunch of Yankees. :wink: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
Big Muddy rancher said:
cowhunter said:
I can't amagein livein and survivein up there. Down here, we might cut a cord of wood to get by a winter. I seen my wife run the ac at christmas so we could have a fire. I've put hay out in cold weather, but it was never a dangerous undertakein. I had to bust ice out of the water troughs this year and enjoyed it. A rare thing for down here. Yall are a tough bunch of cowboys. I got a lot of respect for yall.
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Ya for a bunch of Yankees. :wink: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Maybe 1 cord of wood I know I cut and burn 20 to 30 cord a year.
 
a short canoe trip back and forth while they are haying.

You guys live in a different world. I can't imagine that.
Kind of a neat thought, though. I've just never been where
there's that much water. We lived on the Powder River, but
never put up hay, thank God. We had to ride horseback across
that river and that was excitement enough. The bottom was never
the same.
 
Faster horses said:
a short canoe trip back and forth while they are haying.

You guys live in a different world. I can't imagine that.
Kind of a neat thought, though. I've just never been where
there's that much water. We lived on the Powder River, but
never put up hay, thank God. We had to ride horseback across
that river and that was excitement enough. The bottom was never
the same.
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FH, a lot of their meadows are on the same side as their homesite. The side that is across the river produces about 3-400 bales and is less than 400 yards from the house. When they move they take enough fuel around with the machinery to finish the meadow. It is much easier and time efficient to canoe across in a few minutes than to spend an hour each way as about 8 miles of the trip is 15 mph bush road. When the river freezes it is way shorter to move the hay home.
 
Pretty cool if ya ask me! Out in this country if ya want to cross water you just step over it! A horse might get wet clear up to his fetlock once in awhile! :shock: I can't imagine hauling hay over an ice bridge or going on a canoe trip to put up hay! Suprised you dont haul it in by plane! :wink: Keep your life jacket with ya just in case! :D
 
One of the oldtimers (that just died in the last couple years) used to live on the south side of the Missouri used to haul his wheat to the elevators in Glasgow to sell in the winter by driving his grain trucks across Fort Peck Lake after it froze over...
Saved him several miles and a lot of time..
He'd fasten big poles on the trucks bumpers that stuck out far enough that if he hit one of the pressure ridges or open spots- and if he fell thru- hopefully it would catch on the ice and hold it up...I never did hear that he'd fell thru..
 
leanin' H said:
Pretty cool if ya ask me! Out in this country if ya want to cross water you just step over it! A horse might get wet clear up to his fetlock once in awhile! :shock: I can't imagine hauling hay over an ice bridge or going on a canoe trip to put up hay! Suprised you dont haul it in by plane! :wink: Keep your life jacket with ya just in case! :D
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I know of a few bales having been dropped in with a helicopter. Not the most economical method.
 

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