[AT] Hey Ralph!

[Ralph Goff]

On 11/21/2015 7:29 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> The frost line here is published at 8" but I don' remember the ground
> freezing that
> deep since I was a boy, more than half a century ago.
>
> Charlie
Similar here Charlie. Only it is feet instead of inches :-). Most water 
lines are buried at least
8 feet and considered safe from freezing although we did have trouble 
with one freezing years
ago where it passed under a  driving path. Hard packed ice is no 
insulation for the ground at all
and that allowed the frost to go deeper. Where there is undisturbed snow 
sometimes the ground
does not freeze very deep.
It warmed up to near 20 degrees here today and yesterday so I took the 
old flathead Merc out for
a short drive that might be the last one of the season.

Ralph in Sask.