Yowza!! -9 for our high today!

[firefighterjake]

Coldest I saw this morning on the drive into work on the car thermometer was -15 degrees F . . . at a certain point I'm not sure a few degrees one way or the other makes much of a difference in terms of how cold it feels . . . unless you add in the wind.

 

[WiscWoody]

Brrrr . . . even colder with the wind chill I'm guessing. At those temps I bet you're seeing machinery doing "funny" things . . . like taking off in a car and feeling as if the tires are blocks of ice, vehicles shifting (if at all at first) as if the transmission fluid has turned into molasses, etc. Makes one wish for balmy temps in the twenties . . . or even the teens.

Well the tires nowadays don’t have the flat side until you’ve drove it for awhile like they used to. But the House snaps at times from the moisture in the wood expanding. There’s been times in the past when it was quite loud and you’d look at the area expecting a big crack in the drywall but all was good lol. When you are outdoors you can here the trees doing the same thing, snapping from their moisture expanding some. It finally went above zero for a bit today but we are down to -19 again so there must not be any cloud cover at the moment.

 

[HitzerHillbilly]

We have +12 now, but it’s snowing pretty good at moment also, have a few inches on the ground already. House is at 75*+ now!


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[WiscWoody]

Oh I’d rather have the cold than the 5+ feet of snow they got in Erie Pennsylvania! Right?

 

[edyit]

Oh I’d rather have the cold than the 5+ feet of snow they got in Erie Pennsylvania! Right?

I run the water dept. here, i'd rather have a few feet of snow before the deep freeze sets in...

 

[HitzerHillbilly]

I run the water dept. here, i'd rather have a few feet of snow before the deep freeze sets in...

A little insulation on the ground probably helps a lot huh?


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[Chimney Smoke]

-24 air temp when I left for work this morning here in southern Maine. One cold spot I drove through showed -29 on the thermometer in my truck.

 

[heavy hammer]

Rich L i ended up getting the 880 for helping a guy log one year that was my pay. I had an old 066 at the time that he kept running for me. About a week before Christmas a few years back he had me come over and there it was brand new in the box. Then a coupled months after that he had a just about brand new 660, he sold my 066 for $300 and I gave him another $500. it seems like I only end up cutting real big wood 3 to 4 foot diameter stuff. I just sold the 880 a few months ago to a buddy to start a saw mill and used that money for my new box scraper for my tractor. I almost never ran the 880 just not needed, the 660 can do the same job. Plus I have a couple 660's. My buddy that purchased the 880 also bought a 660, I tried talking him out of it but he insisted. Long story short his brother now has the saw and mill, he said having both saws is not needed.

 

[KindredSpiritzz]

Had to set my furnace on standby at 64, stove just cant keep up when its this cold and im gone at work or sleeping. Don't like waking up to a house that 58. Anytime its under 10 degrees the stove starts lagging.Least this year i can foot the bill for a little gas for a week or so til the cold snap breaks. This weekend i'll fire up the wood furnace to help.

 

[NoobTube]

Im keeping my house around 73* (2200 sq ft) with temps in the low single digits this week. Over-night fires are producing a ton of coals, but if I close the air off at around 10pm, I'm waking up around 7am to a house that is around 63. I've got my boiler on standby for anything 62 and lower.

 

[WiscWoody]

I run the water dept. here, i'd rather have a few feet of snow before the deep freeze sets in...

Whys that? So your system doesn’t freeze up? Up here we all worry about our septics freezing up during the winter. I usually put down some straw to help protect it but this year I banked on having enough snow to insulate the ground, so far so good knock on wood! Lol. We were close to -30 one a few nights ago but we can get as cold as -40 up here. Our hardiness zone is 3a.... 35 below to 40 below. Happy flushing...lol

 

[jacksnipe]

Whys that? So your system doesn’t freeze up? Up here we all worry about our septics freezing up during the winter. I usually put down some straw to help protect it but this year I banked on having enough snow to insulate the ground, so far so good knock on wood! Lol. We were close to -30 one a few nights ago but we can get as cold as -40 up here. Our hardiness zone is 3a.... 35 below to 40 below. Happy flushing...lol

It was -41 just outside Duluth MN Dec. 27th Many cars had trouble starting

 

[edyit]

yes to help keep things from freezing, our mains are 6 + feet deep to the top of the pipe. a few feet of snow is a nice insulator

 

[WiscWoody]

It was -41 just outside Duluth MN Dec. 27th Many cars had trouble starting

Yes, in Cotton Minnesota . I heard about that, that’s bone **s cold!

 

[heavy hammer]

My box scraper instead of my 880 Rich L

 

[Squisher]

Nice. Funny I have/use a boxscraper on the back of my tractor all winter for cleaning up snow. Works a treat.

I too used to have a 880, and a couple 660/066's but let them go when I sold a company. 880 I miss, what a beast.

We've been on a cold spell here. Not as bad as you guys out east but steady near 0-15f. Cold for us. And going on three days in a row of snow. Winter is expressing itself.

 

[WiscWoody]

yes to help keep things from freezing, our mains are 6 + feet deep to the top of the pipe. a few feet of snow is a nice insulator

That’s pretty deep. Our historical frost line is around 48" I think but I’m sure some snow for insurance is a good thing.

 

[heavy hammer]

Squisher I agree the 880 truly is a beast. I had it over 3 years and maybe put 6 to 8 tanks through it. Once I got the tractor I figured some attachments I would use more often was a better use of resources. Plus I have 3 660's. Two brand new in the box.

 

[edyit]

That’s pretty deep. Our historical frost line is around 48" I think but I’m sure some snow for insurance is a good thing.

a few years back we had a brutal cold snap, the year they coined the term polar vortex, had a few freeze up that year. no snow i think was the biggest contributing factor. it makes a surprisingly good insulator.

 

[Allagash350]

-24 air temp when I left for work this morning here in southern Maine. One cold spot I drove through showed -29 on the thermometer in my truck.

Where are you in Maine? I’m in Bowdoinham so I’m closer to the coast, but it was -14 this morning and -15 yesterday.
I was in Farmington yesterday morning and it was still -14 at 10am.
Thank god for red oak, house is 70 and the old furnace has been enjoying a break.

 

[kennyp2339]

I'm actually loving this cold, the stove is keeping the house a wonderful 70-74 with a morning low of 65-68 inside, I have only ran the oil heat to make sure the baseboard loops are good and not freezing up, generally 15 min in the morning and 15min before bed.
I haven't had to plug the truck in yet, its a diesel but with low temps between zero and 5f its been starting fine. I loaded up the garage rack so I should be good to go until Jan 10th or so, so now I'm just enjoying it, catching up on old tv shows, looking up new food recipes on youtube and stuff.

 

[WiscWoody]

a few years back we had a brutal cold snap, the year they coined the term polar vortex, had a few freeze up that year. no snow i think was the biggest contributing factor. it makes a surprisingly good insulator.

Yes it does. when I worked in Minnesota and someone needed to dig there were times when the snow was deep and they didn’t need to thaw any frost out of the ground. There might have been a little bit of frost but the back hoes could handle it. Bummer you guys froze up, it’s no fun.

PS.... our high today is a cool -12 not counting any wind chill....Bundle up! Lol

 

[cahaak]

Well, the one good thing about all of this is that it is likely to kill a few of the bugs that we don't like - emerald ash boreres and maybe the japenese beetles too. We really need it to get to -20F here for a few days to do a better job at that. Topped out here at -6 today and will be the same high tomorrow, stove is doing fine except that it is coaling up a lot, so I have to stir it up and run the air to get those burnt down some. Other than that,all good. I think I'm going to have to get some more humidity in the air here as it is dropping and I don't want it to get down below 30.

 

[jatoxico]

I remember a few years ago flying into seattle during the worst blizzard they had had in 40 years. Imagine folks in their mid fifties with zero experience driving in that much snow. Even the snow plow operators.

That's funny I had a very similar experience! They had 4-5" of snow and that was already melting and 1/2 gone within the next 12 hrs but it was apparently quite an event.

 

[jatoxico]

a few years back we had a brutal cold snap, the year they coined the term polar vortex, had a few freeze up that year. no snow i think was the biggest contributing factor. it makes a surprisingly good insulator.

I remember the year you're talking about. Lots of folks had the water freeze that had never had that before. My driveway heaved up and was completely destroyed. It was on the way out and allowed water to get under the asphalt. Once it froze it heaved up and broke to bits.