Long, Slow Burn

I got out of bed at 6am. It wasn’t until 7:05am that I started making snow. 15F this morning and low humidity! Good snow making weather. It’s all a learning process of course. It took a long time to get everything out there and set up.

I put the compressor in the back of our minivan and ran the electrical and air line through the side window. That did a really nice trick of dampening the noise of the compressor. I had a cardboard box around the pressure washer to help dampen that noise.

I went to turn on the water. Nothing. Frozen. I had to get out my heat gun to thaw the spigot. Once that water started flowing, I went to turn on the pressure washer. Nothing. The water had frozen at the nozzle of the snow gun. Again with the heat gun. Thawed that out and the pressure washer was going and it was 500PSI.

I let loose the air compressor and we’re making snow but all of that took over an hour. There was a good breeze for Georgia so the snow really spread out over the yard but after an hour, I had a good coating. Take a look. Tomorrow morning will be cold again. Perhaps I’ll make some more.

This is what it looks like from inside the spray … with a flash on the camera.