Cold Weather - TO DO List

pakalasa

Cold Weather - TO DO List

• Tractor Anti-freeze
• Drain water from power washers, sprayers
• Fill barrells with water as back up

What am I forgetting?

BeeDI

Wrap your tommy teepee in a wooly sock:D

whelan1

leave a tap dripping over night

BeeDI

whelan1 wrote: »

leave a tap dripping over night

I left tap in the yard dripping last night. Frozen solid this morning. I think you need a steady flow, more than a drip, drip effect.

Question is what will we do once water meters are installed? Could get expensive leaving taps running, if we had a hard winter!

johngalway

BeeDI wrote: »

Question is what will we do once water meters are installed? Could get expensive leaving taps running, if we had a hard winter!

Bore a well and tell the council to play hide & go ........... themselves!

whelan1

ye i leave it running slowly.... really a good help , now to go out and give water to my slatted shed :rolleyes:

reilig

All drinkers frozen this morning. Thankfully I left the tap running last night. It was a fair hard frost and they say it looks likely to continue until friday at least. Thankfully no snow last night.

johngalway

reilig wrote: »

All drinkers frozen this morning. Thankfully I left the tap running last night. It was a fair hard frost and they say it looks likely to continue until friday at least. Thankfully no snow last night.

Just heard on the radio that while temps may rise on Friday, the cold spell/snap/crackle/pop could well last into next week.

Better than rain anyway!

leg wax

johngalway wrote: »

Bore a well and tell the council to play hide & go ........... themselves!

but everything under the ground belongs to the goverment including the water:eek:

blue5000

pakalasa wrote: »

Cold Weather - TO DO List

• Tractor Anti-freeze
• Drain water from power washers, sprayers
• Fill barrells with water as back up

What am I forgetting?

Hey pakalasa,

bit late now isn't it?
only thing to add,
maybe feed the birds,
buy a 25kg bag of salt next time you're in the co-op
blue (fingers, nose etc)

BeeDI

leg wax wrote: »

but everything under the ground belongs to the goverment including the water:eek:

Does the govn't need to know you have drilled for water or are pumping from a surface well?:cool:

tommylimerick

good thread
got really badly done over last year with the weather
i didn t drain the water out of the wash down pump
for parlour or did i drain out the water of the
bulk tank washing unit
then after the thaw we had no water at all and thought
that some pipe under ground was after breakin
there was a puddle of water outside near the house so
started there
so got a digger to pull up the pipes
after about 2 or 3 hours we found
the leak inside a old pump house where all the pipes goin
town supply and our own pump supply
which is no longer in use
think the whole thing cost me over a grand and a day of shovel work

Bizzum

Anyone that grows a few spuds, or indeed any other veg that is stored over winter, should make sure they are well covered and insulated from the frost.

reilig

Bizzum wrote: »

Anyone that grows a few spuds, or indeed any other veg that is stored over winter, should make sure they are well covered and insulated from the frost.

Thankfully my spuds and carrots are in the pit and well covered with soil. They survived 3 weeks of -15 degrees last year and they are covered in the same way. So hopefully they will make it through.

ihatetractors

Bizzum wrote: »

Anyone that grows a few spuds, or indeed any other veg that is stored over winter, should make sure they are well covered and insulated from the frost.

Know a fella that supposely lost 50 acre field of spuds last year :eek:

pakalasa

My tractor is 35 years old. Last year when the cold weather struck, I drained the water from the engine. I was adding a small bit of water now and again because of a small leak, so I reckoned the anti-freeze was well diluted. ...well I thought I did, only drained the radiator. I thought it would drain the block aswell as it's the lowest pt. Ended up cracking the block. I thought it was a goner, but no, works perfect, just have to keep topping up the water.:D
Only uses about 1/2 a litre in about 12 hours, so I'll knock a few more years out of it.
That's why I posted the thread, a real f****** sickner, when you get caught out with something stupid like that.

supersean1999

check taps in fields and all connections, any faults will be found out quickly

Bizzum

supersean1999 wrote: »

check taps in fields and all connections, any faults will be found out quickly

Particularly important when the thaw starts. A connection bursted by frost about a drinker can cause havoc, this time of the year we all probably are not out through the fields and could easily miss a major leak.
With these meters now this could prove costly.

denis086

We had the joiner crack going into a tank and the water that was spraying vertically in the air froze resulting in a sheet of ice going about 12ft in the air way above the bushes around it saw it from the farm yard and didnt know what it was until i walked out to have a look :eek:;)

ihatetractors

denis086 wrote: »

We had the joiner crack going into a tank and the water that was spraying vertically in the air froze resulting in a sheet of ice going about 12ft in the air way above the bushes around it saw it from the farm yard and didnt know what it was until i walked out to have a look :eek:;)

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
Say ya got a fair shock when yaa seen that:D

denis086

ihatetractors wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
Say ya got a fair shock when yaa seen that:D

I was more wondering what the hell it was :rolleyes: i thought it was the windscreen on a tractor first