| Author | Message | ||
     Iman501 |
so somebody posted this on the other forum i spend time on, it may be a repost here but o well  | ||
| Malott442 |
I've been to -15 to -17 with wind chill for an extended period of time..... I plead the 5th on where on the chart I was | ||
| Delta_one |
I was in north Dakota 2 years ago for training at UND and it went -70 with wind chill. it was so cold the ice would squeak under my boots. | ||
| Ourdee |
I've been so cold.......How cold have you been? I felt warm and just wanted to sleep. I got into a tub of cold water and it felt hot. As my legs thawed they started bleeding. | ||
| Nevrenuf |
i've been so cold my snot froze up like icicles on my mustache and beard. | ||
| Mndwgz |
I experienced the temperature not going above -30c on any day for six weeks straight, with the lowest temp going down to -65c... plus wind chill. Engine block heaters in the gas units plugged in when not in use, and the diesels were never shut down. Driving with your shock absorbers frozen solid is a weird feeling too. Northeast of Edmonton AB in 1981. Temp above +5c I would ride if the road was thawed. | ||
| Court |
I did a project, Lang Substation, in 1983 and we had to do 258 drilled pier foundations in heavy rock. Lots of blasting and drilling. We went for 30 days with temps never above freezing. The day our Schnabel car arrived with the transformer the ambient was somewhere in the teens below zero with 40-50 mph winds. The good news was that the riggers, who had included sheeting 3/4 mile of dirt road with 1" steel plates found a road hard as granite. The bad news is that the Cat 3208 motors, which we used auxiliary propane oil pan heaters on were pushed to the max. One gelled while running. It's been 40 years ago and I still shiver when I look at the pictures. We were working 14 hour days and I remember putting on layers of Carharts and the feel of walking out at 3am to head for work. I was lucky that I got to mix my time sitting high in the air on an LDH drill rig with spending time deep in the hole loading Tovex and NiPak charges. I hate cold weather.  | ||
| Cowboy |
Does any one here (canadians ) still wear pipeliners Or remember them. | ||
| Jason13 |
Ive been so cold that the cold was cold.  | ||
| Mtch |
riding on a bike a -6C which is NOT normal for the south west of England. it usually rarely freezes and a recent spell of cold has only got it down to -3C. it was only a 20 minute, 20 mph ride home from work, but i was shivering time i got there. | ||
| Cataract2 |
Damn, that's freaking cold to have the diesels never shut down and needing block warmers on the gas units. So, I'm curious, how come you couldn't shut the diesels down and use a block warmer on them? Fuel would gel? | ||
| Fast1075 |
We do work on blast freezers...I have spent many an hour inside -60F freezers doing repairs while the systems were running. (couldn't shut them off without risking the product doing overtemp)...copper wiring just snaps if you move it...the worst is some of the things that need to be done are so delicate, you can't do them in gloves... suckage in the worst possible degree...at least I have an electrically heated coverall and inhalation warmer. | ||
| Davegess |
I've been out on a snowmobile the night it hit 40 below zero, not wind chill, up in Hurley, WI. Toss a cup of hot water in the air and nothing comes down, it just disappears. | ||
| Petereid |
-40 and with the wind about -70. Not a happy place to be.....ever lol | ||
| Mndwgz |
Cataract2: Block heaters do work in diesels, but usually the size of the engines didn't let them get warm enough, and getting them to fire with out using too much ether was a trick too. Using lots of methyl hydrate in the fuel would keep it flowing, and sometimes 5% gasoline in the tank to give it a little more kick. | ||
| Mnrider |
We were snowmobiling in -25F and we were water skipping open water under a bridge and sure enough my brother went down in 5 feet of water.I sent my wife home on the snowmobile to get the truck. So there my brother is standing on the seat of his machine,I took a tow strap and tried to throw it to him but it was too short so I had to walk out chest deep to get the rope to him. He tied the rope to the handlebars and worked his way to shore using the rope to pull himself to shore in the current. We pulled the sled to shore just as the wife pulled up with the truck.Our suits where frozen so stiff we had a hard time getting in the truck. We came back to get the sled the next day and it was so froze it wound not move,we had to tow it to the road with the truck. Fun times!! | ||
| Iman501 |
you guys are crazy thats all i've got to say! | ||
| Whatever |
You can tell it is cold in Wisconsin when the snot in your nose freezes before you can make it to the car. That is cold. | ||
| Etennuly |
While making snow at a ski resort in NW Pa during the bad winters of 1976 and 1977 I opened a water line that went up a slope that had not been used in years. We had a gusher in a valve pit that had to be shut off without shutting down the main water pump. The valve pit was three feet deep filled with water and a 2" diameter jet of water shooting a hundred feet in the air. By the time I got it shut off I was soaked to the skin from head to toe, including snomobile boots being full of water. The temperature was -2F. I had to ride a resort snomobile a mile back to the lodge, then I rode my snomobile at 80mph for the four mile trip home. At 1:30 am my dad had to open the door for me because my suit froze solid in the riding position, I could not remove my gloves to get my keys out of my pockets. Took an hour by the wood stove to get the suit off, and a couple hours in the tub starting with really cold water to get warmed back up. It was the only winter in my life that I never got sick, not even a sinus cold. | ||
| Kustomklassix |
Delta - "I was in north Dakota 2 years ago for training at UND and it went -70 with wind chill. It was so cold the ice would squeak under my boots." Yup, gotta love ND. 20inches of snow between yesterday and Saturday...awesome. Ho-lee-crap. Some of y'all have been in some BAD situations. Court, you and Fast have had some of the craziest jobs and situations of anyone I've met. Props. | ||
| M2nc |
Vern, I was in Cincinnati during that winter. The Ohio River froze over and people were driving their cars across it. The coldest night it got to -25°F with some wind. My brothers and I stepped out to see what that kind of cold felt like. It was wild. All the exposed moisture in your nose instantly froze. We did not stay out there long. A few years later we went to the Ice bowl. The playoff game of 1981 with the Cincinnati Bengals. The high that day was 13 and the winds were 30mph. I learned that day that layers only work when there is enough room for air in between. Too many pairs of socks in too tight of shoes. Near frost bite that day and that hurts. As far as for riding, I have been in high 20°F's running 75mph. That was cold but I was covered up pretty well. Webe and I also rode over 300 miles home in rain and temps just below 40°F. He went to electric heaters shortly after that. | ||
| Just_ziptab |
I rode a motorcycle a long ways in sub zero temperatures and when I finally got home,took a hot screaming bath and buried myself under the covers. Six hours later, my kneecaps were still cold to the touch. This was long ago in my youth and the medical results of my trip has since been dubbed................HYPOTHERMIA!......... :-) :-) | ||
| Spiderman |
it's 55* F in my house right now I am at a hockey rink at least 5 to 7 times a week so it is pretty toasty for me | ||
| Whatever |
It was windy and cold coming back to Madison... I couldn't see the road bc all the sh** blowing across it... ice, snow, cowpies, snow man turds... WTF am I still doing in Wisconsin???  | ||
| Jasonnennig |
You know you love it here Charlotte... All your club friends would miss you if you moved, NOT...JK  | ||
| Bluzm2 |
We usually get a spell here in Minneapolis where it doesn't get above 0 for 5-7 days. During that time, it is regularly well below-10 for a day or 3. Coldest it's been recently is around -20 to -25, for a day or so. When it's below -20 or so you can take a cup of warm water and throw it in the air, it won't hit the ground. It completely flashes off to vapor and disappears. Coldest I ever recall being is way back in the day changing a starter on a 1968 Dodge Charger while laying in a snow bank. It was -25 if memory serves. Wind was blowing about 30 mph or so. Gusts were much higher. That puts the wind chill about -50. No room for gloves or mittens... You have no idea how cold an engine block is on bare fingers when it's that cold outside. Any heat is sucked out of your fingers in moments. A normally 30 minute job took over 3 hours... That was only the beginning... getting the old 440 big block to start was not easy. We had to put a pan of charcoal under the oil pan and block off the sides of the car to warm the oil enough to get it to turn over. BTW, this was in the parking lot of a Perkins. When it was finally over, my fingers didn't work right for about a week. I was afraid I'd done serious damage.. It hurt like hell to thaw them out. Someone please tell me again why the hell I live here? Brad | ||
| Luftkoph |
here in the U.P. of michigan it rarely gets below 32 degrees f and only snows maybe on a bad winter 1/2 inch must be lake superior keeps it moderate | ||
| Etennuly |
Carlos, That was a long, strong winter. We were still skiing into May because we had built up so much base snow. We had a Saturday that the Ski Patrol would not let us open the ski resort because it was -25F, winds at 20mph and at noon it was still dark. Chances are it was the same week. When I moved to Florida in the mid eighties, I always told people it was not an accident that I was there. | ||
| Cataract2 |
Etennuly, after being in CO and some of the cold snowy days we've had here. I now fully understand why my parents moved from WI to FL back in 87. | ||
| Xodot |
Winter of 1981 in White River Ontario - it was minus 60 Celsius and I had to get my 2 year old daughter to the hospital in Wawa 60 miles away. My '79 Volvo 240GL had a block heater, battery heater and oil pan heater. Every oncoming transport we met on the highway had the exhaust from the stacks come out and fall to the ground. The vapour laid in a tight neat ribbon of white at ground level before the trailer finished passing by it. It was an eerie quiet that night and the coldest I have seen it. | ||
| Whatever |
Hey I have a job opportunity to apply for in Sooo, I don't think I can handle more dark than I do now tho...Oct- Dec... |
