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Getting prepared

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  1. Backwoods Savage

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    Getting ready for the winter's ice. I'd rather use sand than salt or ashes and I have plenty of ot.
     
  2. MikeInMa

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    Get it while you can!
     
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    and while its dry... :thumbs:
     
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    I like a few buckets of sand for Winter as well. The sand here though is in small pockets surrounded by glacial till gravel - so I have to do a bit of sifting to get the rocks out. In most cases I like it better than salt which only works when the temps are right. The road to my house is gravel, not asphalt.
     
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    For the first time, this spring, I picked up rock salt well ahead if time. Its stacked in 5G buckets ready to be moved to the air-lock this winter.

    Its nice to be a little ahead of the game, particularly if prices get stoopit this fall. Too many years I've been the fool buying salt just before a storm. Bought out Lowes though...no more there till winter.

    Good you're getting sand in early.
     
  6. MikeInMa

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    Our town allows residents to take rock salt from the highway shed, one 5gal bucket at a time.
     
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    I can find clay also.. buildings are above swamp 150 ish feet swamp is all clay..