Today on Flat Tire Farm, Mr. Reeve tries to save our 3rd shelter logic from destruction in honor of the 2 predecessors that met unfortunate demises. See Ready, Fire, Aim rear its ugly head again.
Not sure how I missed this video before, but I've seen it now & even after 43 yrs in MN, 12 ft of snow will STILL make ya stop & say better thee than me!! 😄😶🌫️
Oh good! Yes, I would say or two biggest mistakes so far with the shelter logics have been not securing them to the ground (building a wooden base works well) and not making sure we had room to clear the snow from the sides. We have lost 2 so far. I think when we first bought them there around $500 apiece, and now they’re more like $900. Yikes! Shelter logics are great, but they can only handle about 40 pounds per square foot of snow load on the roof. Here in Willow Alaska we need structures to handle more like 90 or 100 pounds per square foot. I think the year that we made that video we got 21 feet of snow. It was a loooong winter. Ha! Be blessed friend.
Hey there, James! Unfortunately I had stacked materials around this shelter, so I couldn’t bring the tractor through to clear the snow. Oops! One of these days I’ll have to do a video about all the different tools we have to clear snow. We get so much snow here that we have many different tools for different situations that “pile up”. Ha! Be blessed friend!
Hey friend, great question. There’s definitely less snow in Fairbanks, but I think you’d still have to keep it shoveled. If I’m remembering right, this shelter logic’s roof can bear 40 pounds per square foot of snow load. Although that’s twice of what most structures of this sort can bear, we build with 90-100 ppsf because if the snow load. And so, surprise surprise, we’ve lost 2 shelter logics so far. We decided to buy a conex this year rather than replace another shelter logic. Hope that helps. Thanks for watching and commenting. 😊
I should have asked if there's any video of what you did over the summer (if anything) to keep from having this problem with it again? I'd really like to see how you reinforced it or whatever since this video. Thanks!
There’s no reinforcing. These buildings are made to withstand 43 pounds per square foot of snowload. In Willow, we need roofs to withstand 90-100 pounds per square foot. We needed to spend more time keeping the snow off it and make sure that there’s room to move the snow to when we pull it off. It’s called a snow dump. A clear place to dump massive amounts of snow to keep it out of the way.
