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Fill a Sand Barrel in the Summer - PEP BB homesteading.sand.little.sandbarrel

BB homesteading - sand badge
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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the sand badge in Homesteading. (Note that this BB is part of a four-part choose your own adventure called Little List. You must complete four Badge Bits in the Little List.)

In this Badge Bit, you will fill a sand barrel.

In ice country, it is wise to have a few sand barrels around.  You might put sand on an icy road or an icy sidewalk.   You fill them in the summer and use the sand in the winter.  




To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
  - fill a sand barrel in the summer

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   - a before picture of the mostly empty sand barrel
   - an action shot of the sand barrel being filled during what's obviously summer
   - an after picture of the filled sand barrel
   - a description of how the sand barrel is going to be used
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Today at the 2019 PEP1 event, I was running the tractor with a loader bucket.  What a great time to fill a sand barrel!  I collected dry sand from Arrakis (parking lot) so that the barrel won't freeze solid in winter.  The barrel that needed sand wasn't empty but since it needed filling, I filled it.  It will be used to sand the driveway when it gets icy.

I'd like to propose that the BB requirements be changed so that the barrel doesn't need to be mostly empty when you begin.
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Partially full (starting point)
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Filling it up with tractor loader and shovel
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All full

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We didn't actually have one of these last winter but when taking things to the local recycling I saw this barrel and I asked if I could have it. It's now got a second life as the gravel bin to gravel the icy paths in the winter. I'm hoping that the gravel will pass for sand since it'll do a better job in the winter time. Thanks guys!
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The empty barrel freshly cut open
The empty barrel freshly cut open
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All this gravel was left by the previous owners
All this gravel was left by the previous owners
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In the process of filling it with the big shovel
In the process of filling it with the big shovel
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All full with a nice green "summer" in the background
All full with a nice green "summer" in the background

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Making reserve of fresh sand in the summer. I use it when trails and road are icy. Use it also for the square of sand for the hens where they bathing.
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Empty barrel
Empty barrel
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During work on the beach, filling bucket
During work on the beach, filling bucket
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Filled barrel to the top
Filled barrel to the top
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Filling the barrel
Filling the barrel

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Last June I decided to use sand instead of salt this year. So I set up a large new can, filled it with sand from the floor of the in-progress henhouse and waited for winter.
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Our land is sandy-loam and when you're down a couple feet, it's more sand and less loam. So this excavation was the perfect place. In the future I might use lake-shore sand instead.
Our land is sandy-loam and when you're down a couple feet, it's more sand and less loam. So this excavation was the perfect place. In the future I might use lake-shore sand instead.
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I didn't have a spare can or barrel, so I bought one at the local hardware store.
I didn't have a spare can or barrel, so I bought one at the local hardware store.
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Here at the base of a lilac and our electric pole is good proximity to the porch, the garage walkway, and the driveway.
Here at the base of a lilac and our electric pole is good proximity to the porch, the garage walkway, and the driveway.
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It turns out sand is heavy! :-)
It turns out sand is heavy! :-)
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Note: It looks sandy enough to me ! Since the source location of the sand was not in the requirement, good job !

 
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Here is my submission for this BB. This spring we pulled up some square brick paving stones next to our patio and discovered a thick layer of sand underneath. We dug the sand out, dumped it in a pile on the patio, and filled in the area with soil to plant sandcherries (maybe we should have left a little more of the sand than we did, given what we were planting. 😁)

So for this BB I transferred the pile of sand to a barrel to be used on our steep driveway on icy days in the winter. We live in Salt Lake City, and we will certainly have those. Last winter I bought sand to use, so finding this sand for free is definitely a stroke of good fortune.

You'll see the sand isn't totally pure--a bit of dirt got mixed in. However the darker you can make the snow, the faster it melts, so that's not bad.

I'm including:

  - a before picture of the mostly empty sand barrel
  - an action shot of me filling the sand barrel last week (July)
  - an after picture of the filled sand barrel
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