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snowmaker
Anybody have any experience with homemade snow makers?
I ripped up my fish ponds cut a path through the bamboo and I want to make a sled trail. Any suggestions? |
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snowmaker
On Oct 27, 4:55*pm, downhill wrote:
Anybody have any experience with homemade snow makers? I ripped up my fish ponds cut a path through the bamboo and I want to make a sled trail. Any suggestions? When I was younger, I waited one winter for a huge snowstorm...soon enough it came. A 23" dump on top of an initial 0.5 to 1.0 inches of sleet. It was perfect. With a variety of shovels I carved out a meticulous little luge-type of thingee, complete with a rockin' jump at the end...about 300' long descending down a hill. Every night, for two weeks straight I would fill up the tank, and set it in our garage to get as cold as possible without freezing. Then I woke up at dawn the next morning and coated the base and sidewalls with water until it iced up really thick. Then I busted out the old rusty rail sled and had the best time ever. |
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downhill wrote: Anybody have any experience with homemade snow makers? I ripped up my fish ponds cut a path through the bamboo and I want to make a sled trail. Any suggestions? I have a friend in Nashville who has one to make a sledding hill for his kids. Before he started using pond water, he used City water and ran up a water bill of roughly a brazillion dollars. I'm trying to remember the good and bad of it... If you are serious about this, I can check in with him ask him so you can avoid mistakes and pitfalls. |
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On 10/27/2010 7:55 PM, downhill wrote:
Anybody have any experience with homemade snow makers? I ripped up my fish ponds cut a path through the bamboo and I want to make a sled trail. Any suggestions? Sleds actually work much better on ice than snow. And by ice, I mean *ice* - clear enough to see a fish through it ice. I'd probably just spray it with a hose and wait for it to freeze. But if you want to build a homemade snowmaker, you're in luck because the difficult part about snowmaking is how to make it light and fluffy like the real stuff and you don't have to for this application. //Walt |
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snowmaker
Dave Cartman wrote:
In article , downhill wrote: Anybody have any experience with homemade snow makers? I ripped up my fish ponds cut a path through the bamboo and I want to make a sled trail. Any suggestions? I have a friend in Nashville who has one to make a sledding hill for his kids. Before he started using pond water, he used City water and ran up a water bill of roughly a brazillion dollars. I'm trying to remember the good and bad of it... If you are serious about this, I can check in with him ask him so you can avoid mistakes and pitfalls. I am serious. I have air compressor looking for second power washer used have heli-arc welder to make stands and brackets, and access to machine shop if I need to do accurate machining. been printing plans and looking at nozzle information. |
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snowmaker
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downhill wrote: Dave Cartman wrote: In article , downhill wrote: Anybody have any experience with homemade snow makers? I ripped up my fish ponds cut a path through the bamboo and I want to make a sled trail. Any suggestions? I have a friend in Nashville who has one to make a sledding hill for his kids. Before he started using pond water, he used City water and ran up a water bill of roughly a brazillion dollars. I'm trying to remember the good and bad of it... If you are serious about this, I can check in with him ask him so you can avoid mistakes and pitfalls. I am serious. I have air compressor looking for second power washer used have heli-arc welder to make stands and brackets, and access to machine shop if I need to do accurate machining. been printing plans and looking at nozzle information. I get ahold of him. Give me a couple of days though. |
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Dave Cartman wrote:
In article , downhill wrote: Dave Cartman wrote: In article , downhill wrote: Anybody have any experience with homemade snow makers? I ripped up my fish ponds cut a path through the bamboo and I want to make a sled trail. Any suggestions? I have a friend in Nashville who has one to make a sledding hill for his kids. Before he started using pond water, he used City water and ran up a water bill of roughly a brazillion dollars. I'm trying to remember the good and bad of it... If you are serious about this, I can check in with him ask him so you can avoid mistakes and pitfalls. I am serious. I have air compressor looking for second power washer used have heli-arc welder to make stands and brackets, and access to machine shop if I need to do accurate machining. been printing plans and looking at nozzle information. I get ahold of him. Give me a couple of days though. Ain't going to be cold her for a few months |
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