Oh good! Yes, I would say or two biggest mistakes so far with the shelter logics have been not securing them to the ground (building a wooden base works well) and not making sure we had room to clear the snow from the sides. We have lost 2 so far. I think when we first bought them there around $500 apiece, and now they’re more like $900. Yikes! Shelter logics are great, but they can only handle about 40 pounds per square foot of snow load on the roof. Here in Willow Alaska we need structures to handle more like 90 or 100 pounds per square foot. I think the year that we made that video we got 21 feet of snow. It was a loooong winter. Ha! Be blessed friend.

Definitely! We’re having a huge snow year this winter too! And it’s not even the heavy snow months yet. Ha!

Hey friend, great question. There’s definitely less snow in Fairbanks, but I think you’d still have to keep it shoveled. If I’m remembering right, this shelter logic’s roof can bear 40 pounds per square foot of snow load. Although that’s twice of what most structures of this sort can bear, we build with 90-100 ppsf because if the snow load. And so, surprise surprise, we’ve lost 2 shelter logics so far. We decided to buy a conex this year rather than replace another shelter logic. Hope that helps. Thanks for watching and commenting. 😊

Hey there, James! Unfortunately I had stacked materials around this shelter, so I couldn’t bring the tractor through to clear the snow. Oops! One of these days I’ll have to do a video about all the different tools we have to clear snow. We get so much snow here that we have many different tools for different situations that “pile up”. Ha! Be blessed friend!

There’s no reinforcing. These buildings are made to withstand 43 pounds per square foot of snowload. In Willow, we need roofs to withstand 90-100 pounds per square foot. We needed to spend more time keeping the snow off it and make sure that there’s room to move the snow to when we pull it off. It’s called a snow dump. A clear place to dump massive amounts of snow to keep it out of the way.

For the price, we just expected it to be a little tougher. Alas. Be blessed friend.