The temp was about -19 below 0 today when I got up. Keeps cooling off like this and before long I will hafta get out my winter gear. Already got out my wool socks and winter coat but havent used the coat yet. Now if I can just remember where I packed my long handles last spring.
Voy
Yer a tougher man than I am, its fourty here right now and I'm wearin a heavy flannel shirt, heavy cavas pants, wool sox and insulated boots. I'm a tropical bird by nature but sure do love the cold, sometime!
but sure do love the cold, sometime! The Cold would be nice for the week of Gun season for deer in Ohio, maybe a little snow and cold during Christmas week, the rest of the time - keep it at the North Pole... srndr
im cold weather person, but do enjoy summers.. just hard to catfish in frezzing weather.. but cold weather means hunting and trapping time is here again, and i do love chasing them old ringtails around and out foxing the varmits the best i can.
Quote from: Tim Burns on December 07, 2010
but sure do love the cold, sometime! The Cold would be nice for the week of Gun season for deer in Ohio, maybe a little snow and cold during Christmas week, the rest of the time - keep it at the North Pole... srndr
Preety much my take on it........... thmbsup
It was 18 this morning when I went out and to think I thought that was a bit cool. Voy it sounds like a heat wave to you. You have made me feel alittle warmer! With temps like them you better be finding those long handles and throw another log on the fire!
Quote from: voyageur1688 on December 07, 2010
The temp was about -19 below 0 today when I got up. Keeps cooling off like this and before long I will hafta get out my winter gear. Already got out my wool socks and winter coat but havent used the coat yet. Now if I can just remember where I packed my long handles last spring.
Voy
You're only just now getting out your winter gear?!?! Yikes and yikes again!
The temps here aint bad so far this year. Years back we had more than 60 below and I still went out ice fishing. Took forever for my old truck to warm up enough to be able to shift it but it eventually did. Some guys about 20 miles from me were video taped pounding nails in boards with frozen bananas and if you cracked an egg and dropped it to the sidewalk it was frozen before it hit. Now that was COLD but if ya were properly dressed it was bearable. Nice thing is the fish we caught when we went out that time were flash frozen right away so they were as good as fresh caught when we cooked em.
Voy
Just checked on youtube. Go check out Minnesota cold. Some wild video footage in that series--including the banana vs nail.
as breaking a frozen t shirt.
Voy
Quote from: voyageur1688 on December 07, 2010
Just checked on youtube. Go check out Minnesota cold. Some wild video footage in that series--including the banana vs nail.
as breaking a frozen t shirt.
Voy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAAQHbCvXhI&feature=fvw
This kind of cold is nuts!
I lived up there for several years and would not have left if it were not for the job I had at the time making me relocate...
I always enjoyed winter up there and somewhere have a picture of me on my motorcycle riding between two 10' high snowbanks to go to work one day when the truck would not start... I believe it was only -20 that morning...
Brrrr! Let's just say I'm glad I live in a state where it's not so cold cause I'm a warm-weather kinda guy ;D
Cold is a matter of mind over matter. If ya think its cold --- you will be cold. As for riding motorcycles in the winter--seen it many times. My older brother had an old one he tied rope through the rear wheel and used it all winter. Used to see a few up here who did it that way and put a ski on the front tire so they could steer it better. But that was years ago before it was easy to find cheap snowmobiles-- and now they arent cheap agin so time will say if bikes make a comeback again or not for winter use.
Still love to watch the Minnesota cold series on youtube now that I found it. Funny watching what people up here will do for entertainment. Lots to do here if ya have a creative mind.
Voy
The coldest I've ever experienced, spent 5yrs working rigs in the Arctic-77below F mean temp. w/ wind chill at 40mph winds -128 Fahrenheit, had to shut the rig down for a week, metal just becomes too brittle at them temps. Northern tip of Ellesmere Island
Yup. -77 Now THATS COLD.
Even here when we hit 60 below they shut down most equipment use but left them run so they wouldnt become damaged upon restart of use. We did have some windy days when we hit -60 but I cant remember what the speeds were--just that it did make it even colder and was I think somethin like 100-120 below with the windchill-- but at least it was a dry cold. Felt bad for people who had their fuel tanks outside and had some of them gel on them. Also felt bad for the guys who had to deliver the fuel when some people ran out as their furnaces were running steady all day every day for 2 weeks.
Voy
Can't really say I like the temps you get there Voy. I used to drive truck and had to put fuel treatment in my tanks each winter because of all the time I spent in that area. And even that didn't keep my fuel from gellin all the time. To make it worse, when I finally got a different region to spend the majority of my runs in, I decided to save some money and not use treatment as I was working a much warmer area. Only to have my air compressor freeze up one cold night.....In Nevada. hdslp
Hungry John,
Fuel treatment aint meant for doing the impossible. I guess ya had fuel from down south which is #2 or a blend of #1 and #2 which will gel when it gets cold and fuel treatment will help some but not much. As for the air compressor freezing-- I know that feeling as well. Got airbrakes on lotta trucks up here and if you dont add alcohol to em they do freeze.
Voy
VOY, you are very lucky, or smart to have caught on to this lifestyle at your young age. i only wish that i was as much involved as you, and others are, when i was your age. now if we only DIDN'T have this internet to corrupt the lifestyle, no matter how much it helps with information, we could get on with actually living in the distant past. some might totally disagree with that statement, and i completely understand that! i have always been interested in all types of guns, and shooting them, and always found reenactors quite odd, through ignorance, and arrogance on my part. after visiting a couple of events, i now know what i have missed, and can only hope that the future gives me the opportunity to make amends for my short sightedness. to you that do participate in these events, my hat is off to you. to those of you that are totally dedicated to this lifestyle, i hope you realize just how lucky you are, that you have made the right decision, to live history, and enjoy it!
on the topic at hand, it is unusually cold for this time of the year. we don't see these temperatures until january or february!
With whats coming at us its gonna be needed to know these skills and its better to learn them late (now) rather than to late (later).
As for the cold bein early- its gonna be a nasty winter. The water currents in the north atlantic aint movin the way they were and are affecting the rest of it and its bringin cold weather ahead of schedule. At least thats what Jesse Ventura had on Conspiracy Theories last night. I aint gonna get inta details on it or why it was on there but if what they say is right we are gonna be in for some real nasty winters for a long time.
Voy
Coldest I've ever been in was -22 when I lived in Durango, CO. Walked down and caught the bus to Mobile, AL that morning. Got home and it was 85, a difference of 100 degrees in 2 days. Thought I was gonna die before I got back to CO. This morning it was around 35 and didn't even want to go out it then. I've gotten to where I'm a real wimp in the cold.
Had 27 below at 8 A.M. Likely was about -35 at about 6 A.M.
Truck still started fine.
Voy