Left by side of road

[BobSch]

What happens when you leave mattress along side the road in winter.

[conwaygolfer]

Not quite the same as a water bed. Perhaps a frozen water bed? It would be good for the person who has hot flashes. Lol.

Conwaygolfer

[cabinetman]

You call it a platform bed.

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[chopnhack]

Thats awesome :-)

[Slik Geek]

Great photo. Thanks for sharing. I wonder how long it will take for it all to melt?

[jdon]

I wonder how long it will take for it all to melt?

July 4 (it's Minnesota, after all- I assume it's local to the OP)

[LCHIEN]

you see that often on glaciers, well, not with mattresses but with large rocks that get carried down with runoff. The large rocks never heat up enough during a day so they stay cold and shade the ice underneath whereas the ice around melted. So you have these big rocks on pedestals. The size of the rock is critical.

With smaller rocks they heat up through and through on a sunny day. They eventually store enough heat and the heat gets to the ice surface and they melt holes into the ice so you have these melt holes in the glacier that go down some depth until the rock gets cooled enough to stop its downward progress. What you see on the surface is a long, deep apparently bottomless hole maybe 4" to a foot and a half wide filled with blue water (the blue comes from the cast of the adjoining ice).

[Stytooner]

Just look at the insulation value we throw away every time we change a mattress. Now we just have to start designing building with maybe 80" on center studs and we'd be able to use those.

[cabinetman]

Just look at the insulation value we throw away every time we change a mattress. Now we just have to start designing building with maybe 80" on center studs and we'd be able to use those.

That's a great idea. But, you would need studs that were 2x6's, 2x8's or 2x10's...depending on the mattress thickness of course.

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[BobSch]

you see that often on glaciers, well, not with mattresses but with large rocks that get carried down with runoff. The large rocks never heat up enough during a day so they stay cold and shade the ice underneath whereas the ice around melted. So you have these big rocks on pedestals. The size of the rock is critical.

With smaller rocks they heat up through and through on a sunny day. They eventually melt holes into the ice so you have these melt holes in the glacier that go down some depth until the rock gets cooled enough to stop its downward progress. What you see on the surface is a hole filled with water.

So you're saying between the pedestals formed by the big rock and the holes from the small ones, it all averages out?

[LCHIEN]

So you're saying between the pedestals formed by the big rock and the holes from the small ones, it all averages out?

I know. It looks weird, but there's the explanation and it makes sense.

here's an example: