21 below

Dakota7 · Post by **Dakota7** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 11:30 am

21 below zero this morning when I was starting the tractor to put out hay. It is up to 16 below now. It is a rare day in North Dakota with no wind so it isn't bad out there. Hydrolics worked pretty slow though.

Modoc ED · Post by **Modoc ED** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 11:39 am

Thanks for posting. Your temps make me feel better. 3Âº below zero here and sunny. Compared to you, I now feel like I'm at the beach. Now, where'd I put that beach towel.

bsaride · Post by **bsaride** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 11:47 am

Dakota,

No wind? Can ya post a pic of you shooting over the tractor?
How about one of the scabard mounted on it? I would think
that a day like that would call for some shootin

.45colt · Post by **.45colt** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 11:48 am

Well call Me Mr. happy it's 21 above here. a regular heat wave.and it's all because of global warming.

Jim

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 11:51 am

Geeze--I have never experienced temps that low.

Lowest for me is -10 while elk hunting. Right now, its 35 here in SE Pa. Anything below 20 above 0 gives me the shivers. (I know, Eastern sissy)

jengel · Post by **jengel** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 11:58 am

Where's Ji? maybe he can post some of them purdy Hawaii pictures that we all come to love.

2ndovc · Post by **2ndovc** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:48 pm

Wow,

I was complaining about +7 the other day. Once in a while we get well below freezing. Worst I can remember was -13 a couple years ago. Rarely lasts more than a day or two.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:51 pm

And here I was, looking for a jacket this morning to load the horses for a trip to the vet, it was 36Âº.

Nath · Post by **Nath** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:51 pm

The coldest I have ever experianced is -18C.
Say, what do you have to do with your diesel fuel to run in that temp?

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:57 pm

Nath,
As a fairly frequent visitor to the frozen north, I find they generally sell #1 diesel in the winter. I also run an additive in mine, plus tell my guys, "never the thing off, or you'll pay to get it restarted if the fuel gels!"

Don McDowell · Post by **Don McDowell** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:00 pm

Yesterday it was -13 and warmed all the way to 13 above, when the sun came out.
Was supposed to get into the 30's here today, but the day started at 12 and snowing and then snowing and blowing and is now 12 and clear with no wind.

I suppose if you and your brother get that warm you'll take the family down to the lake and go water skiing this afternoon.

Any word yet on when the logging camp shoot is?

Dakota7 · Post by **Dakota7** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:09 pm

We run straight number 1 diesel, starting in November. In October you can get by with a blend. I have a tank heater on the loader tractor and have it on a timer so it comes on about two hours before I start. Some times a little shot of ether will be needed to get er going. 20 below I still get things started pretty easy but when it gets 40 below, things start getting interesting.

The coldest I have seen here is 54 below and I aint talking wind chill either.

Don, havn't heard any dates for the Logging Camp Shoot, been meanin to call Butch and Linda but haven't got it done yet.

Nath · Post by **Nath** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:16 pm

An old rule was to put one gal of gas to eight of diesel for down to minus 10C IIRC. Perhaps Dakota7 you can do that when it is really cold or parrafin???

BenT · Post by **BenT** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:05 am

-26 F in northern WI this morning. It was a little brisk out when I was feeding the horses.

Thunder50 · Post by **Thunder50** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:27 pm

I was traveling through Gunninson, CO last year and wondered why the truck was getting so cold. Looked at the temp gauge and it was dropping as I drove through town. I believe it was -36 at about 11pm. Got out of the truck to get gas, without my coat, thinking a minute or so would be tolerable. Wrong!!

jbm1968 · Post by **jbm1968** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:31 pm

Well, it is 44 here now and I feel cold when I go outside. 2 years in California (Near San Francisco) has made me weak! Still at least you live in a free state and not a people's republik. I will get to Korea in 3 weeks and learn to love the cold again!

k8bor · Post by **k8bor** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:41 pm

It was 19F below when I left for work this morning.

We had a spell in the winter of 93' to 94' from the last week of December to the second week of Feb it never got above 0 deg f in the daytime, and at night more often than not, it hit -40f, averaged about -30f at night. Never forget that year. I could walk from the house to my garage (about 25') and my nose breath would frost my mustache white by the time I got to the garage door. It was the first time ever saw where water froze as quick as you poured it on the ground outside.

The upside to that was if you had the nerve to go outside at night for a couple minutes and look at the sky, you virtually could not see space between the stars. The whole sky looked like a mass of crystals.

That was dangerous cold that year. When it's that cold, any exposed skin started to ache inside of a minute or two. Hope we never have that again, I'm 15 years older now, and really don't want to put up with that again.

Post by **Hobie** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:44 pm

jbm1968 wrote:I will get to Korea in 3 weeks and learn to love the cold again!

Oh the memories...

canonsix · Post by **canonsix** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 1:54 pm

34 below zero Sunday morning, it has not been above 2 degrees all week. I love Montana

Doug

Bronco · Post by **Bronco** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:12 pm

Hey Guys,
But it's a dry cold, right??
Born and raised in Kalifornie. Hated it for years, but the money was here. Retired now, last Nov. 30 and looking to get OUT of here. Got myself to thinking, convinced, it's a dry cold and it won't be that bad. Going to look at Baker City, Or. and since I am close to the Idaho border I might as well....
Please tell me it's worth it all.

John
Soon to be outa here!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BenT · Post by **BenT** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:31 pm

K8bor , I remember that winter . It went well over a month without getting above 0. But I though it was the winter 1994-1995.

Old Time Hunter · Post by **Old Time Hunter** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:10 pm

I'm in the Tropical part of Wisconsin, as opposed to BenT, went down to -13F this morning. Supposed to make it up to +9F sometime today. Heck, just might get my shorts out!

Remember back '93-'94, sub zero F temperatures for 37 days straight! And that includes the high temp for the day. Coldest I ever got stuck in, in Wisconsin, was at Black River Falls in 1979 during February were the low temp for the day was - 53F w/o wind. pee would freeze before hit'n the tire! Had to break my dog free.

Mike S. · Post by **Mike S.** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:35 pm

-26 on my way to work this morning. The diesel pickup ran just fine, til I left work & noticed a little puddle of transmission fluid under the truck.

gundownunder · Post by **gundownunder** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:59 pm

I feel for you guys.
Its a pleasant 91 today, and by Sunday it will be back up to 100 again.
I give thanks daily for airconditioning and cold beer

SJPrice · Post by **SJPrice** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 6:30 pm

gundownunder wrote:I feel for you guys.
Its a pleasant 91 today, and by Sunday it will be back up to 100 again.
I give thanks daily for airconditioning and cold beer

I believe you chaps have a saying that would fit here from us chaps in the frigid parts of the world. "Pi&& off mate" just kidding

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:42 pm

It has been a little nippy up here too lately. It was -15F this morning but warmed up to plus 5 or so. It is down to zero now and to go to -10 or so. Real ice cream weather. You can store it outside and not worry about it thawing.

gundownunder · Post by **gundownunder** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:40 am

The weatherman lied
its 3:30 in the afternoon and 102 at the reloading bench with the fan on, and 108 degrees outside. Time for a beer and the reloading can wait

k8bor · Post by **k8bor** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:22 am

Ben T, I think you're right. Brrrrrrrrrrr. No more of that stuff.

dz86 · Post by **dz86** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:12 am

-6 here in Goshen, Indiana this morning. Wind chill was -20.
Thankfully we only get "cold snaps" like this about once or twice a month during the winter. Some of you guys get them alot more often!

Dave

dgr416 · Post by **dgr416** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:41 pm

I only got cold in Alaska twice.The wind chill was -95 once and -125 other time.I couldnt warm up for some reason.The coldest actual temp I have ever seen is -73.My truck froze in Jan and I thawed it out about the second week of may.Its only chilly at -30 kinda cold at -45 when propane quits flowing and sucks when its -55 or colder when it tears up your car from gas and oil and transmission fluid freezing.At -35 you can throw boiling hot coffee up in the air and it turns to crystals coming down.After a winter of -50 for 2.5 months and -60 for 2 weeks I went outside in shorts and teeshirt at zero.It felt very warm.

gregg · Post by **gregg** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 1:46 am

dgr416 wrote:I only got cold in Alaska twice.The wind chill was -95 once and -125 other time.I couldnt warm up for some reason.The coldest actual temp I have ever seen is -73.My truck froze in Jan and I thawed it out about the second week of may.Its only chilly at -30 kinda cold at -45 when propane quits flowing and sucks when its -55 or colder when it tears up your car from gas and oil and transmission fluid freezing.At -35 you can throw boiling hot coffee up in the air and it turns to crystals coming down.After a winter of -50 for 2.5 months and -60 for 2 weeks I went outside in shorts and teeshirt at zero.It felt very warm.

Loved to have seen that.
I know I have seen at least -40. In my life in ND and three years in Mt.
at Fort Peck Mt. At -40 Auto trans don't wnat to shift or hook up . Brakes don't want to work and its a two hand job to shift a 4 speed PU trans.
Anything with oil in it just don't want to work.
Seat feels like solid wood bench. woulds not have missed it for the world. Have frosted my lungs twice in my life. Hurts like heck and you cannot stop breathing. Once for joging less than 1/4 block home and the other time at work taking down gard rail in wind storm so to get a snow blower in.

stretch · Post by **stretch** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 6:12 am

-5F yesterday morning. Cold, but not ridiculous.

We're supposed to get above freezing next week for a
coupla days here in Central Maine. I remember that winter
of 94-85 (or was it 95-96?). It didn't break 0 for two weeks or so.
I had a little Ford Ranger pickup and I had to wear a snowmobile
suit inside the truck to stay warm - and that was with the radiator
blocked off with cardboard. I remember pumping gas outside
when an Alberta Clipper came through one night. 40 knot winds
and an air temp of 20 below. I had aforementioned suit on and
might as well have been buck naked for all the good it did!

moxgrove · Post by **moxgrove** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:17 am

one nice thing is that they revised the wind chill factor. Now the wind chill is 38 percent warmer than it used to be. It feels a lot better on these cold Minnesota nights to know it's not as cold as it used to be. lol. I wish they would have done it back when I used to ride a bicycle to work the graveyard shift in the ER all year round.

66GTO · Post by **66GTO** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:42 am

Ok. You guys convinced me. I had been thinking about moving from Florida to avoid the hurricanes. I've lived here all my life and until Ivan in '04 had never suffered any damage. But after reading these posts I ain't going anywhere! It's 42 and raining and I'm cold now. I'll take my chances that we won't get another direct hit for another 60 years.

See that redfish to the left. Caught that in late November wearing shorts and a T shirt. My bloods too thin for cold weather.

Coldfingers · Post by **Coldfingers** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:56 am

Doncha just love it?

Minus 38 in the swamp this am. Got in last evening from a three day trip to Prudhoe. Atigun was sort of plugged up by blowing snow and an IsoTanker that had flopped over in the blow (driver "lost the road" in the blowing snow, hit the guardrail and rolled er over)

Temps were not that bad when I headed up but it dropped to minus 38 at Coldfoot where there were about fifty trucks waiting for the pass to clear so we could get over. The flats on the coast had serious winds and zero visibility so there was no hurry on our part to get up there and wait. Much better to wait it out next to a cafe, diesel pump, and indoor plumbing 8*)

Supposed to head up again today but will wait till this evening when things are supposed to taper off a bit.

While lounging about in Coldfoot, we considered ourselves lucky that it was not like 1989 when there were two weeks of minus 70 and colder. The parking lot looked like a truck graveyard. Number 1 fuel was gelling in the tanks and a fella had to add gasoline just to keep the tractor running. Could not go anywhere since the tires would break the bead when you tried to roll foreward. Was pretty miserable.

Summers comming...Right????

Scotty

kimwcook · Post by **kimwcook** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 10:47 am

Coldfingers that sounds like a nice place to be from.

I lived in North Dakota for 10 years. Worked a number of jobs but the one that really put me in the freezer was working as a roustabout. Working on oil pumping stations with temperatures running well over
-100F with windchill. It's unreal the things you have to watch out for and do when the temps get that low. Like engines don't get shut off, gas or diesel just to name one.

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