Inverse snow fencing

[fishhead]

Last night we got some more snow and the wind is blowing pretty hard so the snow is moving. I shoveled the driveway and in the hour it took the wind had recovered about 1/3 of the driveway where I started.

While re-shoveling it I got the idea of catching the snow in footprints before it reached my driveway so I walked back and forth on the upwind side of the driveway to make deep footprints. We'll see if the idea works.

[rambler]

Yup. In the bad winters down here, they will push back the piles that form on certain roads, and then run the dozen in the fields to create ridges back a ways from the road. These ridges catch the snow before it gets to the road. Of course, at some point the ridges fill up and here comes the snow again...

Paul

[Nimrod]

I'm just waiting for the wind to die down, maybe tommorrow, and then I'll blow out the driveway. I don't have to go anywhere and if there was an emergency the Bronco could get out through the knee high drifts. I'm just having a nice relaxing day sitting at home.

[frankva]

Originally Posted by fishhead

Last night we got some more snow and the wind is blowing pretty hard so the snow is moving. I shoveled the driveway and in the hour it took the wind had recovered about 1/3 of the driveway where I started.

While re-shoveling it I got the idea of catching the snow in footprints before it reached my driveway so I walked back and forth on the upwind side of the driveway to make deep footprints. We'll see if the idea works.

Winter be getting long when you start thinking like this.

I smell cabin fever.

[rambler]

If the wind were any stronger and a bit more straight from the north, I could smell Cabin Fever too......

Paul

[fishhead]

It worked! I saw some tracks were full and the drift starting to form over them so me and the dog walked back and forth a bunch more times and so far no more snow has made it to the driveway.

That's a lot easier than shoveling.

[Nimrod]

OK I was trying to be nice. I was trying to give you the benefit of the doubt but you have gone round the bend. The next thing you will do is take up eelpout fishing. You need an intervention. The first step is to admit you have a problem. Then you can work on solving it. let us know when you are better.

[Harry Chickpea]

I hate to be the one to inform you, but that is the way snow fence is supposed to work. I did a paper route in Vermont. Snow fence was NEVER near the roads. The concept was to take the snow that wanted to be in drifts and make them away from the roadways. There was one time at the Constance farm that some nimrod didn't understand that and put a fence on the crest of an embankment overhanging the drive. I swore at that idiot every time I had to wade through snow on that 1500' drive. The ONLY reason I delivered to the place is that they gave a $20 tip at Christmas when most only gave a buck or two.