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PREPARING OUR FARM FOR WINTER STORM DIEGO!!

What happens here

Concerned about heavy snow loads, the presenter plans to move his collectible cars (Buick Grand National and Oldsmobile) from beneath a carport which is not designed for significant snow accumulation. He intends to park the more robust tractor under the carport instead, to minimize the risk of damage to the valuable vehicles should the structure collapse.

Goal: Prevent damage to valuable vehicles from potential carport collapse due to heavy snow

Tools and materials

  • Buick Grand National
  • Carport
  • Oldsmobile
  • Tractor

What they say

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way down a dirt road nobody's coming to scrape this thing like I said in the south when a storm like this hits the whole world shuts down we won't see snow plows for probably two days back on these rural roads they'll hit the hot spots so hit the main roads and right now they're brining all the bridges and all the roads with that salt water brine but we won't get service like that so we're back in the country way back in the country so just got to get a few things ready I'm gonna run to the store and I'll be right back so there's really nothing to do with the laying hens right here pretty simple we just make sure they've got plenty of food and water the temperature no biggie no worries there so here's what I mean by the carport so we have the Grand National parked under here in the olds and the tin runs horizontally not vertically so snow won't slide off of this and that's what I mean these things are generally used in a southern type area that doesn't get very much snow so that's why I'm worried about that building getting a little bit too much snow load on it so the rest of the buildings on the farm have this vertical type roof so snow will slide off of it now I do have a guard right here to keep it from sliding off and tearing the gutters off of the building I'll keep the woodstove fired up in here and try to keep the snow melted off of here if we get more than I'm gonna say eight maybe ten inches I'll start worrying about it don't make sure if it's a fluffy snow no biggie whatsoever if the winds blowing it'll blow it right off but if it's a wet snow and it sits there it's dangerous we're gonna go up here to the goat pin and give the goats two round bales of hay [Applause] [Music]

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