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One Small Snowflake at a Time....Now 25 Tons!!
It's hard to believe when you're chipping away at this solid mass of Ton's of Snow..... that it was put there one little speck at a time.
Bryan calculated roughly 25,000 cubic feet on this little line cabin. A cap 20' x 18' conservatively on the 15' x 16' cabin roof. Eves (not the cable) are 10' off the actual ground. Good thing we raised the floor 40" off the ground. A Beaver De Havilland Bush Plane loaded to the nuts weighs 4,500 lbs. So you could stick 10 on top to amass the amount of weight on it with this very dense snow (1/3 water by volume.
Bryan used 25 lbs per cubic foot and it comes to 50,400 lbs or 25 Tons.
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Wow! that snowflake grew and grew, we had very little snow this winter . You build these line cabin's good and strong Bryan. Last year we put a new roof on the sawmill after the snow load made it collapse that was 30" of wet snow. Take care :)
ReplyDeleteWith your permission, I'll use your pictures. My Dad would love to see the line cabin under a huge cap like that! He has problems with his vision so it's easier for him if I can post some of your pictures directly on my blog.
ReplyDeleteHello Trudie from Sweden. Yes, Please use the photos but also please show that they came from thehappytrappers.blogspot.com Hope your snow is going as fast as ours is.
ReplyDeleteUnbelievable. It's so much you could get hurt if even part of it slid off.
ReplyDeleteThat's a heapa snow! I'm pretty sure our little trap line cabin must look like that now too. I'm always a little anxious when we are heading in each fall as to whether it will still be all in one piece, but it always is! Logs are awesome! Take care you guys!
ReplyDeleteWOW!! That is impressive. I agree with Brian - amazing the cabin held up with that weight, you guys must know what you're doing! :)
ReplyDeleteAnd it's just so... pretty!