Some one asked?

pitw · January 24, 2011, 04:08:55 PM

How we keep our water thawed for just a couple head of livestock. So here is a picture or two of how not to do it cheaply. I think it was -30F the day I sent the wife out to take these picks

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And while I was erasing pics from my camera anyway

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FinsnFur · January 24, 2011, 04:27:23 PM

What the (L) is in the tree in the first two pics?

Hawks Feather · January 24, 2011, 04:28:39 PM

Barry,

Your wife took some good pictures - especially as cold as it was. Did you allow her to wear gloves or did you just lick her hand and have the camera frozen there for the pictures? Also, if that white thing is a Canadian spider's nest I can fully understand why you hate spiders.

Jerry

Hawks Feather · January 24, 2011, 04:29:13 PM

My guess is that it is a grouse in the tree.

Jerry

Carolina Coyote · January 24, 2011, 04:38:44 PM

Looks like a Siberian Spider Web to me and a Snow Cone bird nest.

cc

pitw · January 24, 2011, 05:47:53 PM

ummmmm there is no trees in the first two pics

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FinsnFur · January 24, 2011, 06:34:10 PM

I see now, it's the cord

pitw · January 24, 2011, 06:43:55 PM

Yep and man can they tangle them up.

FinsnFur · January 25, 2011, 05:22:13 AM

Looks like a can of Silly String blew up.

Hawks Feather · January 25, 2011, 08:01:47 AM

O.K. Barry, I have to ask. Just how does a person get cord that messed up and yet have it hanging in a tree? I could understand it if it were in a pile in my basement, but a tree? Someone goes riding around with messed up cord and says, 'There is a good tree to hang this thing in.'

Jerry

pitw · January 25, 2011, 08:14:06 AM

Jerry them are one of natures art pieces

. On certain nights the hoar frost covers everything, the next morning as it warms up all the frost melts from the heat absorbed by the plants, hairs or whatever it's on catching the sunshine. The spider thread is transparent and doesn't melt as quickly so it stays longer. The morning of those pictures was the best I have ever saw and they were every where

. They only last a short while and a good photographer could get some really decent shot's but you know my talents

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Hawks Feather · January 25, 2011, 08:31:00 AM

Barry,

Thanks for the info. Those would be really neat to take photographs of and your shots are fine.

Jerry

Jeb · January 25, 2011, 09:23:42 AM

WTF, yall got cold weather camel spiders up there ???

pitw · January 25, 2011, 09:37:01 AM

slagmaker · January 25, 2011, 11:08:14 AM

Hoar frost is very cool. I saw it 4 inches thick on the trees one time. I was late getting to work due to a busted radiator hose and drove to work as the sun was commign up. instead of the usual couple hours before sun up If I had been a half hour later or earlier I would never have seen it. Really pretty before it goes away.

FinsnFur · January 25, 2011, 10:16:49 PM

Did anyone else notice that when I asked Barry a question in reference to his post he drug me around with off beat, aimless, responses of disregard?

BUT! Jerry pops in and asks a similar question, and WHAMM! Barry comes flying in, trips over himself to beat the keys and submit a very informative, respectful, to the point response, in a manner so timely it barely passed the 13 minute mark?

Ohhhh, I get it

pitw · January 25, 2011, 11:01:20 PM

In the summer while spraying I'll see the trap door spiders nest's glistening with dew while everything around them is dull as well. These ones in the fall with no snow to screw up their background, litterly shine through the trees with the sun on them.

I saw spiders moving across ice on the edge of slough one time at -15F temps and I had quit drinking by this time in my life. Lot's of the little arachnids and I can tell you it spooked me

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Okanagan · January 26, 2011, 01:35:46 AM

Quote from: pitw on January 25, 2011, 11:01:20 PM
I saw spiders moving across ice on the edge of slough one time at -15F temps and I had quit drinking by this time in my life. Lot's of the little arachnids and I can tell you it spooked me .

Will corroborate. I have seen spiders crawling on snow in forest. Even more often I've seen small spiders crawling in and on snow in snowfields way above timberline, along with some kind of small dark bug (flea? gnat?) that sometimes shows up almost in swarms, coming out of the snow. Weird. Have no idea what they eat, and their internal body temp has to be close to outside temps.