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Old 02-04-2013, 10:40 PM   #17
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Default Snow is an insulator

Chase Lady, if you are out in the woods and stranded, you can make a shelter in the snow. You dig a trench a couple of feet deep, line it with branches and then pine bows, then take more branches and span the top and cover them with more pine bows. Final step is to get chunks of snow and put it on top of the pine bows. The snow will insulate.

This handy survival tip is only to show that snow is an insulator. Snow over hay should be a good insulation. (Golf courses love the ground to freeze, then get a good layer of snow, and keep that snow on the greens and fairways for the entire winter, until spring meltoff...they call it poor man's fertilizer.)

Good luck with your system.
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