Working on nose gear ?

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My skymaster sat outside while we were in Maine, over the Christmas holiday. I was understandably concerned about dropping the tail. We got, on Dec 25 alone, 12.5 inches of snow. More fell after midnight, and in the morning there was about 2 feet on the ground. I went over to the plane around 10 PM, after about 10 inches had fallen, and not one snowflake was on the tail!! The wind was blowing hard enough, that it all blew off!!
I didn't have any of your tail supports with me, but will next time, since I read that Shannon had 2 inches on the horizontal stabilizer of his plane, and the tail dumped on the ground.