dec 13 2022
Apparently---- the water to kennels 9 and 10 is not working..... lynn told me... and without giving it too much thought, i suggested...it was probably ice... because that pipe is slightly. Tipped – higher at kennel 10 so we could drain it in the feed room,
Here is where it gets scientific and realllllly boring to some....
In the entire world as far as I know everything expands as it gets warmer and contracts as it gets colder with one possible exception.. thankfully ------as water approaches being frozen ice it actually expands contrary to the rest of the world.. which is very fortunate because ice floats and if ice didn't float this would be a very different world ----all the ice would collect at the bottom of the Scotch glass that would be a bad thing..
so with ice floating and that pipe slightly tipped.. I concluded that it was beginning to freeze and rose to the higher point by kennel 10 where it froze blocking the pipe.. this would follow the law of physics exactly..
now if that is not what happened---- then I don't know what the hell did.. and I'm willing to address any other suggestions people might have.. in this case I think the ice is like the Canary in the coal mine,
all right---- So what if the thing freezes we just thaw it out drain it out and let it go of that... except.. This pipe runs the back of the sleeping lofts of all these dogs.. and though the kennles have been and usually are heated to at least 55 degrees... somehow that 55 degrees and frozen just plain don't match... that water pipe used to be just above the pipe that heated those kennels But it's been so long since I've looked it over I don't know what's happening now -----what I do know is if those sleeping kennles are 55 degrees the water should not freeze. But it may have- unless someone can come up with another reason....
Now we have a brand new and tremendously efficient thermostat sort of deal.. which send a message to Lynns cell phone if the temperature should drop below 55 degrees Or above 90 or whatever.. actually lynns cell phone and marks well because he lives closest.
I was thrilled with this concept it looked absolutely beautiful--- Lynn could keep track of the whole barn from way up there in New Hampshire and mark could come fix anything that was wrong and all was good..
and then that damn pipe /blocked???//frose.???
Great danes cannot live in 30 degrees---- they can run for a few minutes... but they have no hair.
today.. SDP has to figure that out somehow.. I can not crawl up and around those lofts... besides my assignment has been moved to manure management because behind the stalls has not been cleaned for ? a year? I didn’t check—and then Janine did...
those pasture over at meridith, have no manure.. she runs around with a wheelbarrow and picks up the piles daily...--- so that place is clean.
This was to have been done here – but I am now... with the tractor ---scraping up about 8 inches of pure manure,,,, not even an ounce of bedding...
For the SDP crew.... this frozen water pipe concept must take precedents over all others ---mommy nature knows darn well water does not freeze at 55 degeres. Something is screwy... God bless Lynn for noticing.... Have at it !!
