Author Topic: Finally (Read 22354 times)

mountainlake · « **on:** December 26, 2017, 01:40:53 PM »

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

Ox · « **Reply #1 on:** December 26, 2017, 02:03:51 PM »

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 · « **Reply #2 on:** December 26, 2017, 03:48:08 PM »

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 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 26, 2017, 04:40:55 PM »

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 · « **Reply #4 on:** December 26, 2017, 05:31:14 PM »

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

drobertson · « **Reply #5 on:** December 26, 2017, 08:00:11 PM »

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

4x4American · « **Reply #6 on:** December 26, 2017, 08:37:33 PM »

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 · « **Reply #7 on:** December 27, 2017, 06:47:34 AM »

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 · « **Reply #8 on:** December 27, 2017, 08:26:15 AM »

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 · « **Reply #9 on:** December 28, 2017, 05:10:04 AM »

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Quote from: mountainlake on December 26, 2017, 01:40:53 PM

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 · « **Reply #10 on:** December 28, 2017, 10:56:56 AM »

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 · « **Reply #11 on:** December 28, 2017, 07:29:52 PM »

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 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 28, 2017, 07:33:17 PM »

Quote from: mountainlake on December 26, 2017, 05:31:14 PM

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

Warmer in AK than Illinois right now!

xlogger · « **Reply #13 on:** December 29, 2017, 03:36:10 AM »

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 · « **Reply #14 on:** December 29, 2017, 10:14:48 AM »

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 · « **Reply #15 on:** December 29, 2017, 10:39:25 PM »

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 · « **Reply #16 on:** December 30, 2017, 09:43:39 AM »

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 · « **Reply #17 on:** December 30, 2017, 10:55:10 AM »

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 · « **Reply #18 on:** January 01, 2018, 04:22:49 AM »

Quote from: Tom the Sawyer on December 29, 2017, 10:39:25 PM

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 · « **Reply #19 on:** January 01, 2018, 06:23:01 AM »

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 · « **Reply #20 on:** January 01, 2018, 06:31:31 AM »

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 · « **Reply #21 on:** January 01, 2018, 07:00:17 AM »

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 · « **Reply #22 on:** January 01, 2018, 07:08:10 AM »

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 · « **Reply #23 on:** January 01, 2018, 09:30:26 AM »

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 · « **Reply #24 on:** January 01, 2018, 09:56:20 AM »

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

red oaks lumber · « **Reply #25 on:** January 01, 2018, 10:39:40 AM »

the only wood iv'e handled this past week was firewood

went below zero a week ago last sunday and haven't seen zero since. yuck!!
COME ON SPRING !!

drobertson · « **Reply #26 on:** January 01, 2018, 12:08:33 PM »

Thought about you guys ROL, talking with Christy this morning, I said bout the only people happy are probably the Ice fisherman, and I saw something about the Lake freezing over at Milwaukee to the Michigan side? Thats crazy cold stuff, yes I'm ready for spring time too!

mountainlake · « **Reply #27 on:** January 04, 2018, 02:56:24 PM »

Still on vacation as the temps haven't risen much above 0, Sat and Sunday vacation will end 15 to 25 above. Steve

mountainlake · « **Reply #28 on:** January 05, 2018, 03:00:19 AM »

Its -15 this morning. longest cold spell in years. The woodpile is going down fast. Steve

xlogger · « **Reply #29 on:** January 05, 2018, 03:46:00 AM »

It's 14 here and staying below freezing till Monday. Our longest cold span I can remember. I've not crank the mill all week.

xlogger · « **Reply #30 on:** January 05, 2018, 06:52:57 AM »

Now showing 7 degrees out there. Not real for this area

Can't keep enough wood in wood stove for this.

Ox · « **Reply #31 on:** January 05, 2018, 10:17:06 AM »

Colder than a well digger's ass.

furu · « **Reply #32 on:** January 05, 2018, 02:52:45 PM »

Got to Chicago this morning. -2 F before wind chill. Rather balmy.

Stevem · « **Reply #33 on:** January 05, 2018, 11:41:31 PM »

Drove through Corvallis, OR today and it was 55F but it was a cool 51F when I got home! Had to wear a hoody sweat shirt all day.

Ox · « **Reply #34 on:** January 06, 2018, 10:30:30 AM »

OH! The HUMANITY! Are you all right? lol

Nice day today (apparently). Up to 9.

starmac · « **Reply #35 on:** January 06, 2018, 12:55:03 PM »

Well we finally, finally had enough below zero days to set the road up to where we could get back in to the woods.
I hauled a load out Thursday, started out below zero, but warmed to a beautiful 9 degrees.
Friday was clear and warmed up to 18 degrees, there are points on the log road that you can see for miles and miles, some places you can see the river valley that is miles away and some where you can see the minto lakes from miles away. Life just doesn't get any better than the sun coming up while you are on a log road on clear days.
The sun on the snow was bright enough yesterday on the snow, that I had to wear sunglasses, anytime the road lined up with the sun, it totally blinded you.

It is funny, there is a spot on the log road where you can get a great view of the minto lakes 10 miles from where we are logging. We are actually logging on the banks of one of them, it is not over 200 yards or so to the water, but only one place that you can get the tiniest glimpse of the water.

drobertson · « **Reply #36 on:** January 06, 2018, 01:07:53 PM »

Starmac, I guess you have to hustle to get much done with the limited daylight hours, at least the days are growing longer,

starmac · « **Reply #37 on:** January 06, 2018, 03:17:07 PM »

Shoot man, we have lights, in fact we actually invest more than the average Joe in some of the best lighting money can buy.
My haul road truck has 3600 bucks worth of hid's on it, but I can make her daylight anytime, except for dusk.
My log truck I get buy with just one set of hid's, but that is all that is needed on slow log roads.

starmac · « **Reply #38 on:** January 06, 2018, 03:21:20 PM »

Another thing is, when the whole world is snow white, you can actually see the road better at night, daytime it is sometimes hard to make out where the edge of the road is.

xlogger · « **Reply #39 on:** January 07, 2018, 04:10:28 AM »

4 degrees here this morning, unreal for us. We broke the longest record on file for hours under 32 degrees now. Starting to warm up tomorrow near 40.

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mountainlake · « **Reply #40 on:** January 07, 2018, 05:51:21 AM »

Back to sawing +14 right now getting to the upper 20's today. Steve

drobertson · « **Reply #41 on:** January 07, 2018, 09:35:54 AM »

Quote from: mountainlake on January 07, 2018, 05:51:21 AM

Back to sawing +14 right now getting to the upper 20's today. Steve

Well that was a short enough vacation! Freezing rain here for now, got half way to town and doubled back, windshield freezing over pretty good,

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Author Topic: Finally (Read 22354 times)