snowmaking pics?

[AMAC2233]

Loon 12/22/06

 

[BushMogulMaster]

Sugarbush, 11/06:

Video: http://sugarbushhistory.com/120506.wmv

Loveland, 10/18 & 10/19:

 

[BushMogulMaster]

A little more Sugarbush stokage (from the Bush's galleries):

 

[BushMogulMaster]

Ahhhhh... the power of Ratnik!!!!!

 

[snowman]

Ahhhhh... the power of Ratnik!!!!!

I had some great pics of the double sky's making mounds of snow but I can't find the damn things...grrrrrr! The pic of the guys stand in the plume made me laugh. Reminded me of a buddy of mine coming over drunk in his brand new military -40 winter wear. He wanted to lay in the plume of my gun for a while to see if he stayed warm. I had to wake him up from passed out 15 minutes later and drag him out covered in a couple inches of snow before he got burried! :lol:

 

[SKIER4LIFE1281]

lets see some more. looking sweet so far

 

[tcharron]

They're actually suprisingly simple to get working (for a basic one). All you need for a basic one is a decent air compressor, some pipe fittings, a garden hose, and far too much free time.

I wish I had the bawls to actually hook one up, but how much water would it actually use?

My Mt Backyard is pretty decent sized, already used the tractor to clear out at least 3 small trails down, but I *do* have a hose running all the way up the hill already for when we have fires at the fire pit.

 

[snowmaker4191]

not alot of water depending on what type of gun you build ,check out this site here about home snowamking. its easy and alot of fun. the guns start out at 1-3 gallons per minuet all the way up to around 50 depending on how much your willing to get involved.

http://snowguns.com/eve/forums

i'm currently running a 6gpm home made fangun...pretty cool stuff fully functional home fangun

 

[snowmaker4191]

heres a few pics

during the build, then one shot of it running about 3.2 gpm...these photos are old it now puts out more than twice that much i'll have some more pics when it gets cold enough to get it going this season.

here then the attached photo
http://img235.imageshack.us/my.php?image=10033904ra.jpg

not alot of snow but these are from the first startup of the gun ever about 2 minuets into what was a 12 hour run ended up with about 3 feet of snow.

 

[tcharron]

not alot of water depending on what type of gun you build ,check out this site here about home snowamking. its easy and alot of fun. the guns start out at 1-3 gallons per minuet all the way up to around 50 depending on how much your willing to get involved.

http://snowguns.com/eve/forums

i'm currently running a 6gpm home made fangun...pretty cool stuff fully functional home fangun

That's awesome! Thanks for the link, if I move forward with it, I'll post updates for sure.

 

[snowmaker4191]

no problem!

http://www.crotchedmountain.com/cm/cam1_new.php

you can watch crotched live right now. pretty cool the lifts are running and you can see the snowmakers going up the lift to check on the guns.