Hello All Rinkers, This is my second year building a rink. Last year thanks to BYH (backyard-hockey) a 100ft pine & my sister in-law made my rink a big success. I understand that this may need a little explaining so here it is (If you are not interested in the story this is the time to move on, ...

The storm hit the north shore around 2pm on Friday. As a good Rinker should, I went out and handled the inches of white stuff every few hours and was fairly confident that I could keep up with the storm...... Then I went to bed.......woke up to 20" of snow and drifts of 30"+ now what do I ...

Thanks for your response Kevmac - That is what I was thinking as well. We moved off about half of the top layer of snow with the help of some regular skaters and the wifey. This is the challenge of living in New England it is 22 degrees today and will be 7 tonight but Mondays forecast is 45 and rain...

Thanks HockeyMom - Here was the rink in its glory.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njdjyuNQXgg Uploaded on Jan 31, 2013 The Graber Rink 2013 - Ice surface 50' x 60', 24K gallons of water, 9' x 9' warming hut, hot water tap for rink rake zamboni, 2 half sized pond hockey goals and two full size hoc...

Here was the rink in its glory....(pre-Nemo) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njdjyuNQXgg Uploaded on Jan 31, 2013 The Greybear Rink 2013 - Ice surface 50' x 60', 24K gallons of water, 9' x 9' warming hut, hot water tap for rink rake zamboni, 2 half sized pond hockey goals and two full size hockey net...

I use stall mats from Tractor Supply. A little expensive but they work great and they can be used year after year.

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