Pallets as snow fence

Windy in Kansas · #1 01/09/11, 04:17 PM

I learned yesterday that my brother has been using old pallets as snow fence. He seems to think the wider boards, etc. makes them work better than actual snow fence.

jwal10 · #2 01/09/11, 04:56 PM

I don't know why not. My son is using some for a fence around his garden. All are the same and they are (were) new. Looks real good....James

tinknal · #3 01/09/11, 05:02 PM

I'm sure they would work fine. They will also bump up your Redneck cred.

simplycountry · #4 01/09/11, 07:39 PM

LOL @ tinknal.. Ok.. have to ask tho.. what is snow fence? We do live in the mountains of NC, but idk what snow fence is...

JuliaAnn · #5 01/09/11, 07:54 PM

What snow fence is..... is expensive.

Bearfootfarm · #6 01/09/11, 07:59 PM

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have to ask tho.. what is snow fence?

It catches snow and keeps it from piling up where you don't want it to

tinknal · #7 01/09/11, 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by simplycountry

LOL @ tinknal.. Ok.. have to ask tho.. what is snow fence? We do live in the mountains of NC, but idk what snow fence is...

Generally it is erected about 50 yards parallel to the windward side of a road or driveway. Blowing snow piles up against it rather than continuing on and drifting on the road. It is usually made of wood lath wired together with spaces in between.

arabian knight · #8 01/09/11, 08:13 PM

And the newer fence now being put up in many areas is plastic rather then wood sheets, much easier to store, and lighter to put up, and attaches to post with just a simple tie, and is orange in color, can be seen very easy by snowmobiles also.

rider · #9 01/09/11, 10:45 PM

my horses especially the young ones love the plastic snow fence its so much fun to grab and pull off the posts and at -10 or so it tends to break where they grab it. as for the pallets I would use pallets as wind break/snow fence any thing that breaks the wind stops the snow from moving

rambler · #10 01/10/11, 12:47 AM

A little better explination of what snowfence is:

It's 'something' that is about 50% air gap and 50% solid.

Either wood lathes held together with wire, creating a fence about 4 foot tall, with the vertical lathes with gaps between.

Or plastic fabric fence with about 50% of the material missing.

Or 2-4 rows of standing corn, which works well for me.

A solid wall will _not_ work.

The wind blows along, carrying snow with it.

As the wind filters through this fence, it slows down on the back side of the fence. Some wind goes through, some goes over the top & creates an eddie on the down-wind side. This eddie, or slower wind area, is where the snow drops out of the wind.

This makes a snowbank on the downwind side of the snowfence. It does not pile up on the fence - it passes past it & drops.

Then the snow will not pile up on your - driveway, building, etc.

It is a way to control where the deep snowbanks will be.

But one must plan, for the snow to pile up deep _past_ the snowfence, so you need to put it far away - leaving room for the snow to drift up between the fence and the area you don't want the snow.

Snow moves around like sand dunes, and piles up in bad places. Sometims a snowfence will help control that a little.

Pallet should work, not sure it would be _better_ but probably just as good.

--->Paul