Shovel or Mow lawn weekend

dareutwo · 2004-04-07, 11:19 PM

LOL - Well just that exactly.
Yesterday got the pick up buried in a frost hole in the middle of nowhere... 20 bucks to a kid who happened to come down the road with another pick up, and I was back on schedule.

For those of you not familiar with frost holes -
In the fall/winter of course everything freezes solid in MN - lakes, ponds, etc.. and yes, you can drive snowmobiles, trucks, and occasionally semis on the lakes.
In the spring - the ground thaws where it can through the path of least resistance.
Meaning ground soaked with water and sand where the water can escape will thaw faster than ground soaked with water filled with rock that has to thaw.
What you end up with with a frost hole is when it starts to melt in the Spring and areas generally 3 - 5 feet long that are virtually bottomless.
Paved roads are not immune to this, but they put weight restrictions on trucks to allow for this.. typically limited to 5tons.

They really suck for a month or two, but after that, the rest of the ground thaws, and it's back to normal.

2004-04-07, 11:19 PM	#4
dareutwo You can't disprove anything with evidence that doesn't exist Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: NW Minnesota - pop 865 +/- 1 Posts: 2,038	LOL - Well just that exactly. Yesterday got the pick up buried in a frost hole in the middle of nowhere... 20 bucks to a kid who happened to come down the road with another pick up, and I was back on schedule. For those of you not familiar with frost holes - In the fall/winter of course everything freezes solid in MN - lakes, ponds, etc.. and yes, you can drive snowmobiles, trucks, and occasionally semis on the lakes. In the spring - the ground thaws where it can through the path of least resistance. Meaning ground soaked with water and sand where the water can escape will thaw faster than ground soaked with water filled with rock that has to thaw. What you end up with with a frost hole is when it starts to melt in the Spring and areas generally 3 - 5 feet long that are virtually bottomless. Paved roads are not immune to this, but they put weight restrictions on trucks to allow for this.. typically limited to 5tons. They really suck for a month or two, but after that, the rest of the ground thaws, and it's back to normal. __________________ This is me Mark's-Links