Why always when its cold

[jon f mn]

Seems it's an annual event, a flooded barn. Last year was a broken water line, this year its my own fault as I left the water run in a stock tank. So today I get to clean the barn with a high temp well below zero. Why always when it's bitter cold.

 

[showcrop]

Seems it's an annual event, a flooded barn. Last year was a broken water line, this year its my own fault as I left the water run in a stock tank. So today I get to clean the barn with a high temp well below zero. Why always when it's bitter cold.

Be thankful that you are not a Russian!

 

[cjunrau]

Seems it's an annual event, a flooded barn. Last year was a broken water line, this year its my own fault as I left the water run in a stock tank. So today I get to clean the barn with a high temp well below zero. Why always when it's bitter cold.

Because our brain gets jelled and we forget things

 

[Blackhole49]

When I worked in the water dept., we had very few breaks in the summer. As for forgetting, for me has more to do with age than cold and doesn't improve in the summer. The results are easier to deal with in the summer though.

 

[Steve in VA]

Seems it's an annual event, a flooded barn. Last year was a broken water line, this year its my own fault as I left the water run in a stock tank. So today I get to clean the barn with a high temp well below zero. Why always when it's bitter cold.

Never got above 31 yesterday and that's when all 4 brakes started grinding on the neighbor's truck. Lucky for him I have the tools and air so he wasn't working in a gravel driveway. Yeah. Seems to go that way.

 

[Bruce from Can.]

Best way to never forget to shut off the water while filling a stock tank is …. Make sure that the hose is just long enough to get the water into the tank with you holding the hose in your hand, but too short to be able to lay the hose into the tank so you can walk away.

 

[DoubleR]

Seems it's an annual event, a flooded barn. Last year was a broken water line, this year its my own fault as I left the water run in a stock tank. So today I get to clean the barn with a high temp well below zero. Why always when it's bitter cold.

I fill a 100 gallon tank with a hose every day in the barn. I finally had to make a self imposed rule for myself. Do not leave the area until the tank is full the water turned off and the hose drained. I use a float in decent weather but from about Nov to May but I can't in the cold weather.

 

[Janicholson]

Washing machines have water control valves running on 120AC (buy one and put a timer on it!) Jim

 

[chcase]

Seems it's an annual event, a flooded barn. Last year was a broken water line, this year its my own fault as I left the water run in a stock tank. So today I get to clean the barn with a high temp well below zero. Why always when it's bitter cold.

The statement that Bruce said about the length of hose holds true.I was pretty young but I remember my oldest sister and brother staying home from school one February because they did the same thing. My dad had told them but they thought that could save some chore time.

 

[Tgrasher]

I used to tie a length of twine string around my arm, too much crazy stuff happens on a farm to reliability remember those faucets.

 

[RayP(MI)]

Wednesday it was a power outage from 5 am to 7:30 pm. Last night pressure switch in pumphouse froze up.
I've got snow knee deep to crotch deep. Absolutely too cold to try to plow with open station tractor, if it would even start in these below zero windchills. UNCLE!