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I told them it was ice!

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rrlund

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All winter some folks razzed me about the size of the manure pile across the road where the round bale feeder was. I told them it was mostly snow and ice. They just looked at me like "yea,right". It shrank down by about 2/3rds in the past few months.
I was cleaning it up today and hauling it out. There's STILL ice in that pile!
 
I can believe it.

In 1999 when my wife and I built our present house, the concrete contractor set the forms for the basement walls one day, intending to pour the walls the next day. It was in early March and we had 4" of wet snow overnight. The next morning, they took a bucket loader and scraped the snow and mud down to solid dirt for solid ground for the redi-mix trucks. They just threw the snow and mud into a couple of piles.

A couple of months later in May, I backfilled around the foundation and there was still snow in the middle of the piles of dirt.
 
I"ll bet your folks or grand folks talked about storing ice in sawdust well into the summer........I used to have a JD Days film of harvesting ice on the river at St. Paul, MN. Quite the operation filling boxcars headed to packing plants, etc.
 
Ya,Dad used to be the ice man. He delivered it to homes for ice boxes. They'd harvest it from the lake in the winter,store it in sawdust and he delivered it.
He had some stories to tell about walking in to peoples houses,believe me. lol
 
Didja see the 3 stooges delivering block ice up a loooooong flight of outside steps, on a sweltering day? Every time they got to the top, it was down to ice cube size.
 
Now you know why, Nw Idea came with the Flail Manure Spreader Understand it was invented by a Wic. farmeer pefected by New Idea, I sold hundredsd of them .gitrib
 
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