Only problem is that there are very few workhorses around, mostly leisure horses and the horsedrawn equipment is all in gardens as ornaments. i.e. scrap.
Many countries are very vulnerable if we all had to go back to those times, we lost most of the knowledge about it in a very short timespan. Hopefully it doesn’t come to that any time soon.
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I hope so too. I am just a city boy. The first victim if things collapse. 18 million people here. It is just one big city. Just dont think about it. Prepping is bad energy. Self sufficient is positive. I try that.
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Prepping is a term that has been muddled and often given a negative connotation. It is nothing more than insuring that you have enough food in your pantry to get you through a time when you may not be able to get to a store due to bad weather. It is getting your snow tires on in the fall. If you depend on fire wood for heat then it is a lot of time gathering and cutting.If you live in a area where they have tornado’s then having dug out a root cellar was wise. All things my grandparents accepted as a normal part of life. Now all things that mark a person as a paranoid weirdo. If things were to collapse I would have a lot more junk to build things with. Glass half full.
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Judging by the men’s biathlon pursuit results, it looks like they used cross-country ski’s and rifles. Not only is sweden practicing escaping to Norway, Norway was escaping into Sweden. Sweden placed 1st and Norway 2nd in the event. 
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We are up to 250" here now, with some places receiving even more. I spend most days in the L90. Podcasts, Kombucha, and a really toasty heater.
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Bruce showed more snow and ice and it chilled me to the bones. I will try to warm up a little by posting this rat roast we had just before dark today 
80F here today
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Last time I remember this much snow, was February of '14. The county road was 12ft deep. I went to check and lost the snowmobile in a drift. I had to slither back to the tag elders so I could stand on their branches to walk back home. We were snow shoeing through the bush to the main road.
These recent storms brought more snow at once, but we had more snow on the ground then. It was 8ft deep on our snow shoe trail then.
I am starting to feel concerned. I am running out of places to put snow. I am going to have to sacrifice Lebensraum to Heikki Lunta.
The good news is; all those folks who bought property here thinking it was so cheap, will be ordering U-hauls and lining up on the lift bridge. Wayne will probably see an uptick of real estate purchases down there in Dixie.
Me? I gotta get a new seat for the Volvo!
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What do the roofs of the houses look like? I have a hard time imagining so much snow, I don’t think any roofs would hold up here.
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I think you could be getting another foot this week end Bruce. We don’t get your kind of snow. I think our average is 160 inches. 2014 we got 240 inches. Most since I’ve been living back here was 95-96 at 265. We’ve had quite a bit this year but I haven’t added it up yet. Had seven days of thaw and that didn’t get us to bare ground. Now it’s snowing again but at least it’s prettying up the nasty thaw slush. We always get one big storm and snow drop in March and then it’s just maybe 4 inches on and off. We kind of got a break this year because it was so cold that the corridor across the lake that usually hits us was frozen and that cut down on the lake effect machine.
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Jan, houses in the north here are specifically designed with snow load in mind. I’m not sure of the specific number but the trusses and spacing need to be adequate to hold a curtain amount of snow.
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Apparently this is the noise i heard at 4am. I can’t believe i didn’t see any plastic from a vehicle. I have no idea how fast this guy was going.
The cage that goes over the mailbox… was like 30 yds away. Past the mailbox. You can’t see it. (I take that back, it is inline with the post and the mailbox, and you have to zoom in to see it. I coudn’t see it on the phone.)
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Do you do a lot of pruning this time of year?
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Jan the building code here is Standard (80 psf): Approximately 390kg/m^2 or
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High Range (100 psf): Approximately 488kg/m^2
I am not sure what form of metric measurement you use.
When we build we put a truss or rafter every 12" for a low pitch roof or for a 45° pitch we go 16" on center. Then 5/8" or 3/4" plywood CDX for sheeting. Sometimes I use 3/4" inch white pine planks when they are available.
Usually over that is corrugated sheet metal.
We still shovel roofs (English! Rooves? Hoof/hooves, roof rooves? Try explaining that to a toddler) just in case of ice dams.
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I do some. but usually I am making syrup and burning up the brush.
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Ok, here in central Sweden we are around 200-300kg at most.
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Good morning all.
I ran up on some old videos and knocked the dust off one from just over 15 years back
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How is your boy now? I can no longer tell the age of young people anymore. The other day I saw a young boy with his mother at the store. I thought he was 11 or 12 years old. You have to be 15 years old to start driving with a adult for training for a driver licence. He drove his mother out of the parking and down the road. The old red ford with solid welded cooling rails.
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