December 9, 200916 yr Been down to 8 - 9 F'n (Fahrenheit) degrees here for the last few days. Gets up to the 20's. Sure glad I got a wood stove in the shop. My saw is outside and the coolant was frozen solid. Put some red hot bars of steel in the tank and poured hot water over the lines. Finally got that running. Now the blade keeps coming off because of ice on the wheels. More hot water.
December 9, 200916 yr Oh, man it was so cold here this morning I had to put a real shirt on! No kidding a Shirt with long sleeves, not just my usual tee shirt but a long sleeved shirt. Highs are in the mid fifties and the lows are in the upper thirties. That is cold but it can and will get colder.
December 9, 200916 yr It got so cold here the other night that there was ZERO temperature on the Celsius scale. I had to switch to the Fahrenheit scale so I could read the numbers and feel warmer.
December 9, 200916 yr The rain blew under the garage door and all the way up to the house wall! The wind sounds like I may have lost some roof shingles, and it is sleeting, so its at freezing. Probably get colder tonight. Phil
December 10, 200916 yr I think the low was right around 0 F. It may have got to 20 here today, but I doubt it. It is headed back down in the basement now.
December 10, 200916 yr I know this is nothing for you northern boys but it's 35 here right now, the wind is blowing about 15-20 mph and the RH is about 50% so it just HURTS me to be outside in the chill. I've got a fire going in the fireplace and plan to do some channel surfin' inside; the shop can stay dark for tonight.
December 10, 200916 yr I've heard that word before. It got up into the 80's F today, its still 70+ right now and might get down into the 50's during the night. We might have to throw an extra blanket on the bed. I love living in Florida.
December 10, 200916 yr we've been -40 C with the wind chill. It was colder than the north pole the other morning here.
December 10, 200916 yr Grant, if your saw coolant froze, I reckon it's the right thing to do to write the soluble oil company, and tell them they are doing a great job.... High 19F low, -8F so far this week. The shop and house woodstoves are getting a major abdominal workout, sweatin' to the oldies!
December 10, 200916 yr to darn cold to get much work done... I have the weather on my phone and can pick out locations to check... so I put my home town in southern Idaho on there and every time I feel like its to cold to work... I check the temp there... They got up to 9 today, first time its been above five deg this week... low tonight of 7 below though..... Makes the 26 deg in Auburn seem balmy... On a side note.. one bad thing about a big shop with high ceilings.. It never does get warm... I burned 10 ga of propane today through a 200,000 BTU heater and the shop never got above 38 deg...
December 10, 200916 yr it's about 20 during the day here... cold enough for my feet to be numb all day long. breaking up all the ice in the shop has become part of the morning routine.... i have no form of heat except the forge burn on my face :)
December 10, 200916 yr Cold? YES!!!! COLD! My house was built in the 50's and some original pipes have frozen for the first time. Now I guess I will be a plumber for a while... In the hight teens for last couple nights but the pipes got to thaw out today and when I found out about it, I was 3hrs away and my wife didn't hear it until she got home from work.... For all you math guys- how much water flowed out of the 5/8" ID pipe at 85 PSI for lets say, about 6 hrs? Figuring they thawed around 2PM today?
December 10, 200916 yr Easily confused.. is it cold enough to throw a hot coffee into the air and none of it to hit the ground from evaporation? I have heard that happens in the Great White North.. got a friend a couple hours from Edmonton... I know that is still a couple days drive.. but ... he is closer than me.. said its warm there.. it up to -27F.. how do you people stay warm up there?
December 10, 200916 yr IT'S 19 F here this morning 50% chance of snow, thats calling it safe. Grant I don't know what kind of coolant your using but could you add RV anti-freeze to it so it won't freeze? Just a idea.
December 10, 200916 yr it's 30 here, snowing and the slack tub is inpenetrable, did not put the heater in and will now just use a hot chuck of steel to get down to the liquid.
December 10, 200916 yr It was -35 celsius yesterday. With windchill it was -43 celsius (about -45 F). I was out on a rail line looking at some a potential summer job replacing a span for the rail line.
December 10, 200916 yr All that water that blew under my garage door froze last night and my anvil is rusty and stuck to the floor now! Maybe it will warm enough to thaw and dry on its own without firing up a heater of some type. Phil
December 10, 200916 yr Thanks Naked A Atta Boys from now on!!! Or perhaps you would like whats behind door number one? Hint, It could be agas, solid or liquid depending on where on the globe one is located... Water bills gonna be nasty.....
December 10, 200916 yr Fe-Wood, Is that little leak coverd under homeowners insurance? I sure hope so.
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