The Farm & Construction Thread
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do they have a toilet and bidet in there?
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It was actually a serious question about cleaning etc.
If well insulated would body heat work ok?
If well insulated would body heat work ok?
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Cleaning isn't too bad. You've got rubber mats and soft wood chips + straw.
Even with insulation, -30+ is cold. The heater is only for the donkeys. They cannot tolerate the cold like horses. Different coats. -20 to -25 they have to be inside. Prone to pneumonia.
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holy shit -30
Its 9C here today and I think I'm in Antarctica. We don't know what cold is.
Its 9C here today and I think I'm in Antarctica. We don't know what cold is.
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Yeah, my wife is tired of the cold. Bought a farm out on the west coast where the temperature doesn't often get below 0 C in the winter and there is no snow. She will go out there with the dogs, the donkeys and the mini's and I'll stay here until I find a more flexible job and sell this place.
Can't take this climate anymore. Well, the cold anyway. It's been 35+ C the last week here.
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Good luck with all that. Sounds difficult.
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Canada West Coast or 'merica? I thought BC got pretty cold.
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So did I. I was amazed when he told me how temperate it was.
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We dumb americans identify BC as a frozen shithole. Much like Ottowa.the Okanagan Valley is pretty mild and this area is actually a desert
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No Saskatchewan is the frozen shithole. Most Canadians don't have a clue either other than the fact Vancouver has a mild climate and there is lots of good skiing in the mountains
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That's the one I was thinking of
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where i livz
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We Australians identify USA as a shithole - with fat people who have loaded guns
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So, like Australia, except with guns?
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Damn, that's almost as warm as here. We are just hotter in the summer.
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Yeah it is about the warmest, dryest climate in the country
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Mrs. Thruth, the horse whisperer, with some of the wild horses in the neighbourhood. Hopefully she doesn't try and bring them home.
She stopped to take some pics of the wildies in the valley and these three came running over.
She stopped to take some pics of the wildies in the valley and these three came running over.
The Ernesto
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They seem very friendly, are they used to people?
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Well they walk all around the mountain from the Indian reserve in the valley to the ranches up here.
Some people put out hay for them so they are kinda sorta used to people. It varies. These are young ones. You can't get near the big stallions or the mares like this.
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Glad my cousin isn't there, she'd be trying to adopt the fucking things.
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Was out at Flatbroke Acres West last week. Built a garden fence using 100 year-old wood from the old fence that runs across all the ranches up here that was burned in some places by last summer’s wildfire.
You can see the remaining fence in the background.
You can see the remaining fence in the background.
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So I picked up a decent sized excavator last year. It's funny because we had been downsizing for so long because we don't see as much deep sewer work, but now with storm water regulations we are seeing huge lakes and storm drain so machines are getting bigger again.
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No Caterpillars?
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I've got about 20 various Cats, mostly dozers. Their excavators are inferior to Liebherr though