Finally

[mountainlake]

 

 A vacation, the highs for the next week are below 0 .  No sawing here.  Steve

[Ox]

Brutal.  I don't envy you in those temps.  We won't be getting out of the teens for the next week but that sounds like a heatwave compared to your forecast.  I hope everything stays going for you - electric, heat, etc.

[drobertson]

If it takes 0's temps to force a vacation, I'd say it's one well deserved!  It's cold here this week too, lows in the single's highs in the 20's,  for the next week or month? Enjoy it while you can,,if you can,, Hey! Happy New Year coming!!

[starmac]

Mountain lake, what area of the country are you in?
We finally got back down below 0 about a few days ago, here in the interior of Ak, hopefully it lasts a while.

[mountainlake]

I'm in the middle of MN. I think Ak sent their cold down here.   Steve

[drobertson]

 Well, it leaked out and is drizzling down this way,, you guys are tough nuts,, it's cold,,

[4x4American]

I checked the forecast the other day, -18F before windchill at the sawmill for the thurs night low...thanks alaska...thanks.

Kinda wanna lload up the sawmill and head south...or just do some concentration yard stuff

[bandmiller2]

Your a wise man Steve, when the temps get that low its brutal on man and machinery, the gains are not worth the enterprise. I even hate to wake up diesels much below 20 degrees unless their plugged in. Frank C.

[joasis]

In a few weeks, I will be on a cruise to the Panama Canal and points along the way.....sure will miss the cold....12 this morning by my thermometer.

[xlogger]

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 A vacation, the highs for the next week are below 0 .  No sawing here.  Steve

Steve you are getting older, I remember when that didn't stop you.

[Ox]

joasis - that cruise sounds very nice right about now.  A Caribbean cruise used to be on my bucket list but the older I get the more I realize I don't want to be trapped on a ship with a bunch of people I don't know.  Maybe a private chartered cruise would be OK, but then the cost is going to skyrocket.  Maybe after I win the lottery and give you all a piece of it, THEN I'll go.  Wait.  I'm too cheap to spend money on a lottery ticket.  Never mind.

[bandmiller2]

OX, go on a cruise, you will enjoy it even if its just for the food. Cruise adds show young buxom tootsie pies but the truth is its mostly senior citizens as we have the time and money. You will find folks with your same interests wear a john deere or sawmill hat and they will find you. Frank C 

[Kirk Allen]

I'm in the middle of MN. I think Ak sent their cold down here.   Steve

Warmer in AK than Illinois right now!

[xlogger]

Well I guess I'll join Steve next week. After Sunday the 7 day forecast shows nothing over freezing, not for this southern guy

[Ox]

I feel ya, bub.  My 7 day forecast shows a high of 20 for this coming Wednesday then right back down to single digit highs again.  This is bull.  It's costing a small fortune for people to stay warm.

[Tom the Sawyer]

Got home from North Carolina yesterday, today it got up to 32 degrees in KC.  Tonight is supposed to get down to 5 degrees, Sunday night, down to -12 degrees.   Brrrr....

[mountainlake]

 It was -22 this morning for the low, the high is going to be -10,  no work besides putting a lot of wood in the furnace.   Steve

[Ox]

That's pretty cold, no doubt.  Our all time record low here was -32 a few years ago.  How about you?

I remember farming in those kinds of temps.  Every time we'd let the cows back in, half the barn would freeze.  The very last thing for chores was hauling a bucket of hot water around ladling it over the button on the water buckets for the cows so they can get something to drink.  Kind of hard to do when all they're doing is looking for a drink and they're licking and trying to get your bucket, knocking you around, etc.  A tipped bucket would be grounds for a dead cow almost at that point...  This was a stanchion barn, very long, with capacity of over 100 cows.  I can't remember exactly anymore.

Ahhhh, the good old days. 

This global warming sure is something, ain't it?  lol  I haven't heard any scientists mention the fact that the earth is still coming out of an ice age and so would be warming whether humans were here or not.  This was mentioned about 15 to 20 years ago several times while mentioning the changing earth in the science shows, but not lately.  Curious, don't you think?    Guess the ice age warming cycle just stopped and doesn't exist anymore.

[xlogger]

Got home from North Carolina yesterday, today it got up to 32 degrees in KC.  Tonight is supposed to get down to 5 degrees, Sunday night, down to -12 degrees.   Brrrr....

Tom how close where you to me, didn't know you was in the state.
14 degrees out there this morning, only day over freezing is Wed afternoon, might cut for a few hours then. I'm at the point if someone is waiting on me at weather this cold I hate it.

[bandmiller2]

When I was out at U-Mass Amherst had a job working at the stable. I would get up at 4:30 every morning walk a half mile and feed the Morgan's. One morning -32, it felt like everything you touched would break. In the barn cellar had to take my coat off the horses had it heated. I'm no authority on cold but I don't think you can tell the difference between -20 and -30 when your out in it. Frank C.

[starmac]

Iirc the record for the US, and maybe even North America is up on the haul road at prospect creek. The record is 80 or 81 below. About three years ago, they THINk the record was broken at Jim river, BUT the new fangled state of the art certified thermometers the state uses freezes up at 79 below, so they can't say for sure. lol

[drobertson]

finally, I get to go out and and try and thaw out a water pipe.  It got me, my bad, knew better, just pushed the window a little to far. If its what I'm hoping, its' only the 1/4" pipe to the pressure gauge.  It's only zero, wind chill of -6 they say, so soon as the sun gets up a bit more I will check it out, I reckon vacations come in all kinds of forms,   I know Tom has it bout 15 degrees less than us down here,  weather man said it goes all the way to the Gulf!  FCOL

[furu]

Several years ago I was up in Fairbanks and experienced the lowest I have seen: -61F. 
However the coldest I have been was out at Red Dog with it being -39F with a 55 knot wind.  Now that was cold.  Only frostbite I have ever had.

[Tom the Sawyer]

Well, we bottomed out at -8, -19 wc.  It's sunny and the wind died down.  Wood stove is going for ambience, and the bird feeders are busy.

Ricky, although I saw a lot of log trucks on the move, I didn't get to visit any mills.  We drove to Blowing Rock, NC via StL, Louisville, and Lexington, KY. on 21/22, and spent Xmas w/ Jillane's family.  The neat thing was that she didn't know they existed until last Memorial Day.  My wife was adopted and had no family history for 63 years.  Thanks to Ancestery DNA, she found her mother and older brother (deceased, birth certificate said she wasn't the first born to unidentified mother), but did find a sister , two years younger, and a bunch of maternal cousins.  Also a match to her father's side which hasn't panned out... yet. 

They are mostly from Hickory/Newton area of Catawba Co.  Just think how close we were when we went out to Kiln Operator's traiming in 2015.  One cousin rented a 5 bedroom log cabin in a resort area and invited us out to meet the family.  Lots of happy tears, we had a great time... she is so thankful to have stuck with her search.  Her turning up was quite a surprise to the family.  Left on the 26th, thru Asheville, Knoxville, Nasville, StL,and home. 

May be able to visit some mills next time, I'm sure it's not our last trip to NC. 

[Ox]

Thanks for sharing that happy story on this, the first day of 2018.