Posted: 1/21/2013 4:55:16 PM EDT
Fudder Mucker, it's cold outside!!! Here in the Eagle River area, it's currently 14 degrees below zero at 7:45pm. Don't know what the wind-chill is, I haven't been outside for about 3 hours. I wouldn't be surprised if it gets down to - 25 or lower by morning, if it's already -14 at this time of night. 
I guess it's time to close some windows. 
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| in my location its -8 there is some wind so who knows how cold it is with the wind chill and i fired up the grill for supper. sure it was cold but that steak made it worth every bite. probably helps that I'm part wookie. i also had some ice cream for dessert I'm kinda a sick person.(I'm not kidding about the ice cream.) |
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COLD ..... in wisconsin .... in late Janusray?!?!?!?!? Say it aint so!!!!!!! thats why i ate ice cream. its the norm here I THOUGHT Wisconsin natives were tough and shit..... I wonder if when its 100 in Florida they post about how hot it is You would think we were in Tennessee the way everyone is complaining. I have had the Harley out on nights this cold. when it gets to -25 ambient , feel free to start complaining, until then welcome to January Wisconsin. |
| Well the cold took the interface for my kenwood in my truck tonight. Fucking Scosche sucks ass now. WTF happened to them? They USED to be the top install kits and parts for car audio. Get a new (to me) GMC, but the Scosche dash kit and interface. Dash kit wont let me use the radio sleeve and trim ring and needed an interface (thanks GM for putting the door and warning chimes IN THE FREAKING OEM RADIO). Well the interface lasted not even 3 months. Come to find out this is a COMMON issue with their GM interfaces. Now gotta go get a Metra one (which is BETTER). May as well get a metra dash kit so I can use my trim ring. Radio looks like ass without the trim ring. |
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COLD ..... in wisconsin .... in late Janusray?!?!?!?!? Say it aint so!!!!!!! thats why i ate ice cream. its the norm here I THOUGHT Wisconsin natives were tough and shit..... I wonder if when its 100 in Florida they post about how hot it is You would think we were in Tennessee the way everyone is complaining. I have had the Harley out on nights this cold. when it gets to -25 ambient , feel free to start complaining, until then welcome to January Wisconsin. I know folks in southern Georgia complain about the summer heat all the damn time, can't speak to Florida though. |
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It's not awful, but the water pump on the car decided to fail this weekend. I would give it a go myself, but this is not weather I'd enjoy laying in the driveway working under some jack stands. To the mechanic it goes! I also cannot wait until we start replacing some of our old wood windows, and I'm starting to wonder about getting some of that foam insulation injected into the walls.
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I wake up and always check the temp sensor on my night stand since it is my job to make the better half's car toasty. I thought the fucking thing had failed because it read -8.8, turns out it was just 8 below. Not watching the news really catches up to you when you don't watch the weather either 
However, I have the thermostat set at 60, and I am fixing to brew 5 gallons of wheat beer and a gallon of honey ale, maybe 2.5 gallons of apple wine if I can get my ass to the market. |
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COLD ..... in wisconsin .... in late Janusray?!?!?!?!? Say it aint so!!!!!!! thats why i ate ice cream. its the norm here My birthday is this month so I always get ice cream cake from DQ. No one in my family thinks it is weird at all. thats not what my wife thought. apparently when it gets this cold i shouldn't eat Ice Cream |
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COLD ..... in wisconsin .... in late Janusray?!?!?!?!? Say it aint so!!!!!!! thats why i ate ice cream. its the norm here I THOUGHT Wisconsin natives were tough and shit..... I wonder if when its 100 in Florida they post about how hot it is You would think we were in Tennessee the way everyone is complaining. I have had the Harley out on nights this cold. when it gets to -25 ambient , feel free to start complaining, until then welcome to January Wisconsin. That's why I said I had to close the windows. The dog & cat were shivering. 
The coldest I've lived through was an air temperature of -44, Jan. '96. So cold that the propane in the big tank out back gelled up, and wouldn't flow to the house. I had to put a charcoal fire under the tank to get the furnace & water heater to run. We didn't have any charcoal, so I jumped on my snowmobile (truck wouldn't start) and drove 3 miles to the nearest 'stop&rob' to get some.  That was in the good old days, we now have nat gas. 
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I had to put a charcoal fire under the tank to get the furnace & water heater to run. I....uh.... yeah.... that would have me a bit on edge. lol... I know what you mean... I was waiting for the big KABOOOOOM!!! I don't think it was OSHA approved. 
I started the coals in my Weber, then when the coals were glowing red, I put the coals in foil roasting pans on the ground in a spot where I shoveled away all the snow under the tank, and (edit) threw two canvas tarps over the tank (one on each side of the center located valve on the top, over-lapping them below the valve. I figured if there were any leaks, it'd be there at the valve, and I didn't want to "trap" any gas underneath by the coals) (/edit). The bottom of the tank was about 18" off the ground. It was enough heat, as only 15 minutes later I had gas flow, so I pulled off the tarps and removed the charcoal pans. I then put a pair of lamps w/ 150 watt floodlight bulbs underneath on some cinder blocks, and put the tarps back on, and stacked plywood against the sides. That kept it going. 
Someday I'll have to tell you about "shooting" my well when the point got clogged, to "hydro-shock" the point clean.  Did you know that the muzzle of a .45 caliber Ruger Blackhawk is almost a perfect fit in the primer plug hole? And water will still spray out, at a good velocity.  I eventually replaced the point well with a 6" drilled. I was afraid of lead poisoning. 
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| I came home last night to the smell of burning rubber on our landing. This is a covered stairway, no heat, with a place for our upright freezer. Since the freezer is the only appliance there, and the smell wasn't anything else, I'm guessing the compressor froze up or SOMETHING. I can hear the freezer still running, but there is just no way to tell if it's damaged or not when it's this cold. |
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lol.... if it's stupid, but it works......
Nice to know what *can* work in a pinch. Yup, my grandpa & uncle lived up north their whole lives, and taught me lots of "tricks". They used the charcoal trick under vehicle oil-pans too, before block heaters and fuel injection became the norm. I remember seeing oil drip into the charcoal and "flash". I thought he'd blow up that 1955 Pontiac someday. "Ya gotta do what ya gotta do" gramps used to say.
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lol.... if it's stupid, but it works......
Nice to know what *can* work in a pinch. Yup, my grandpa & uncle lived up north their whole lives, and taught me lots of "tricks". They used the charcoal trick under vehicle oil-pans too, before block heaters and fuel injection became the norm. I remember seeing oil drip into the charcoal and "flash". I thought he'd blow up that 1955 Pontiac someday. "Ya gotta do what ya gotta do" gramps used to say.
Them little sterno cans work wonders for that sort of thing too ...... Use them all the time on the diesels .... One under each fuel tank , one under the oil pan (unless it has a fiberglass oil pan) |
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lol.... if it's stupid, but it works......
Nice to know what *can* work in a pinch. Yup, my grandpa & uncle lived up north their whole lives, and taught me lots of "tricks". They used the charcoal trick under vehicle oil-pans too, before block heaters and fuel injection became the norm. I remember seeing oil drip into the charcoal and "flash". I thought he'd blow up that 1955 Pontiac someday. "Ya gotta do what ya gotta do" gramps used to say.
it has almost been 6 years ago already i had 3 fords not one of them would start(all 3 had fuel injection) and i had to do the old charcoal fire trick a few times. but after the first time i got tried of laying ob the ground to get the pan under the car. What i did was get an old hair dryer and i tarped off the front of the car and let the hair dryer do its thing. the moral of that story is i have no room for ford in my driveway. |
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lol.... if it's stupid, but it works......
Nice to know what *can* work in a pinch. Yup, my grandpa & uncle lived up north their whole lives, and taught me lots of "tricks". They used the charcoal trick under vehicle oil-pans too, before block heaters and fuel injection became the norm. I remember seeing oil drip into the charcoal and "flash". I thought he'd blow up that 1955 Pontiac someday. "Ya gotta do what ya gotta do" gramps used to say.
Them little sterno cans work wonders for that sort of thing too ...... Use them all the time on the diesels .... One under each fuel tank , one under the oil pan (unless it has a fiberglass oil pan) My 98 GMC pick-up has a block heater, and it has never failed to start, even down to -30. But before that, I had a 76 GMC with a carbeurated 350, that could be tough to start under -15. For a cheapo, simple solution, I bought an electric heating element with a heavy duty magnet (that was used to "stick" it to the oil-pan). It worked great, but could be a pain to crawl under the truck to put it on and take it off. One day after using it, I forgot to take it off after unplugging it, and I went to do some snowplowing. Haven't seen it since.  I then installed an in-line heater in the lower radiator hose. That worked great too.
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My 98 GMC pick-up has a block heater, and it has never failed to start, even down to -30. But before that, I had a 76 GMC with a carbeurated 350, that could be tough to start under -15. For a cheapo, simple solution, I bought an electric heating element with a heavy duty magnet (that was used to "stick" it to the oil-pan). It worked great, but could be a pain to crawl under the truck to put it on and take it off. One day after using it, I forgot to take it off after unplugging it, and I went to do some snowplowing. Haven't seen it since. I then installed an in-line heater in the lower radiator hose. That worked great too.
They have block heaters, But the fuel will wax in the lines, filters and tanks anyway when it gets this cold |
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The outlet tube for my sump pump keeps freezing solid . So i disconnected it in The basement and ran it to The floor drain which goes to The city sewer. I'm lucky I didn't burn it up the water in The sump was pretty toasty from it running all night and not going anywhere. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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I had -16 yesterday morning. Today it showed -21 on the truck thermometer, it's warmed up to -4 right now. We had wreckers going pretty steady the last two days, mostly from semi trucks with frozen air lines. Who you work for? I buy ALOT of semi wrecker service in Wisconsin.... (IM if you want) |
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I had -16 yesterday morning. Today it showed -21 on the truck thermometer, it's warmed up to -4 right now. We had wreckers going pretty steady the last two days, mostly from semi trucks with frozen air lines. Who you work for? I buy ALOT of semi wrecker service in Wisconsin.... (IM if you want) Greg's Towing & Repair, Ironwood MI. We're right on the border next to Hurley WI. |
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I had -16 yesterday morning. Today it showed -21 on the truck thermometer, it's warmed up to -4 right now. We had wreckers going pretty steady the last two days, mostly from semi trucks with frozen air lines. Who you work for? I buy ALOT of semi wrecker service in Wisconsin.... (IM if you want) Greg's Towing & Repair, Ironwood MI. We're right on the border next to Hurley WI. We dont get up there that often , but Ill keep you in mind if I ever get a breakdown up that way..... you guys should get on NTTSbreakdown.com if you do heavy..... Whole lot of fleets find theyre vendors on there.... USA Truck 237 Arnold Transportation 199 Super Service LLC 176 Automotive Resources Internati... 164 Warner Fleet Services 144 Covenant Transportation 136 Anderson Trucking Services, In... 117 Paschall Truck Lines, Inc. 111 Dart Transit Company 105 Prime, Inc. 104 FedEx 93 CR England Trucking 91 Navajo Express Inc 89 Heartland Express, Inc. 89 Quest Global, Inc. 87 Transco Lines, Inc. 84 Star Transport, Inc. 81 Crete Carrier Corporation 81 Averitt Express, Inc. 75 Top 20 searchers in the last hour with number of searches they have run in the last 6 hours |
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lol.... if it's stupid, but it works......
Nice to know what *can* work in a pinch. Yup, my grandpa & uncle lived up north their whole lives, and taught me lots of "tricks". They used the charcoal trick under vehicle oil-pans too, before block heaters and fuel injection became the norm. I remember seeing oil drip into the charcoal and "flash". I thought he'd blow up that 1955 Pontiac someday. "Ya gotta do what ya gotta do" gramps used to say.
it has almost been 6 years ago already i had 3 fords not one of them would start(all 3 had fuel injection) and i had to do the old charcoal fire trick a few times. but after the first time i got tried of laying ob the ground to get the pan under the car. What i did was get an old hair dryer and i tarped off the front of the car and let the hair dryer do its thing. the moral of that story is i have no room for ford in my driveway. I find that interesting. I've had 2 Fords start with no issues @ -50F in South Dakota one was over 10 years old, the other was 8, both with EFI. The current one starts with no issues as well. The GM A body on the other hand seemed to refuse to start anytime there was frost. |
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So here I am on my trip out of Fleet Farm carrying heavy tins of ammo tonight. An unplanned trip -- just had a feeling to swing by. So the phone is ringing for annoying "where are you". Reject call. Ring, ring, fucking ring. Hello, in the middle of something here involving guns and ammo -- takes a priority. Slip sliding in the parking lot. Trying not to drop the random Granola bars I had to buy at the checkout to hit the magical $350 for their promotion because I was $10 something dollars under and then even with those I was still .02 cents under and had to grab something else. Pissing the guy off behind me -- given all the fucking granola bars I grab expire in a few days and the kids don't eat them that fast so I'm digging through the pile. Of course he doesn't want to move lanes because we only have two open. The first one that we are at and the the one all the way at the other end. Literally, like 1 and 16 or whatever it is. Of course I had three tins but then upon learning of the promotion had to not take one so I could go around again. Which means now I have to buy four. Maybe 6. Shit. These bastards, baiting me with guns, ammo and free money for buying them? Should I go back and get a Saiga 12 because the one at home needs a (hot russian) sister? After the trip to the trunk from the beginning of the story, of course. Damn trunk release wouldn't work. Must have been frozen. I'm trying the fob, the inside button, smacking it, jacking it and otherwise getting pissed -- and the extended trying popped the fuse (my guess) because it is dead along with the license plate lights that are both out (which are probably all a circuit together). This is a keyfob thing without an actual key associated (there is no key) though it has a little hidden wannabe key in it or whatever, actually just the metal shaft of a key with no handle, if that makes sense (goofy) but then it turns out there isn't an actual mechanical keyslot for the trunk. Which I didn't know (only had a month), just the hidden push button switch for if you are in proximity with the fob. The little hidden key is for the doors where you can pop off a cover to reveal the secret keyslot and somehow hope in freezing weather it will actually fit in there, all one inch of it and actually be able to turn it... Fucking Japanese. (no offense to Japanese Arfcommers everywhere unless you are a car designer, then f you too )The back seats don't go forward so good luck with that but just to be cruel there is a little fuck pass through hole that hides behind the flip down cupholder armrest goofy shit that you can use a five foot stick and try to fish the manual release which isn't by the opening but rather all the way as far as it can possible be away. But alas, they made it glow in the fucking dark so at least I have that going for me. Meanwhile, back under the hood in fuseville, in the cold ass lot, with the wind howling, there is this goofy ass plastic trim shit that covers everything in the engine compartment with all these HK like pushpins around the whole perimeter and in the middle and everywhere else and it's so cold the plastic is breaking tabs and not coming apart... FUCK. |
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So here I am on my trip out of Fleet Farm carrying heavy tins of ammo tonight. An unplanned trip -- just had a feeling to swing by. So the phone is ringing for annoying "where are you". Reject call. Ring, ring, fucking ring. Hello, in the middle of something here involving guns and ammo -- takes a priority. Slip sliding in the parking lot. Trying not to drop the random Granola bars I had to buy at the checkout to hit the magical $350 for their promotion because I was $10 something dollars under and then even with those I was still .02 cents under and had to grab something else. Pissing the guy off behind me -- given all the fucking granola bars I grab expire in a few days and the kids don't eat them that fast so I'm digging through the pile. Of course he doesn't want to move lanes because we only have two open. The first one that we are at and the the one all the way at the other end. Literally, like 1 and 16 or whatever it is. Of course I had three tins but then upon learning of the promotion had to not take one so I could go around again. Which means now I have to buy four. Maybe 6. Shit. These bastards, baiting me with guns, ammo and free money for buying them? Should I go back and get a Saiga 12 because the one at home needs a (hot russian) sister? After the trip to the trunk from the beginning of the story, of course. Damn trunk release wouldn't work. Must have been frozen. I'm trying the fob, the inside button, smacking it, jacking it and otherwise getting pissed -- and the extended trying popped the fuse (my guess) because it is dead along with the license plate lights that are both out (which are probably all a circuit together). This is a keyfob thing without an actual key associated (there is no key) though it has a little hidden wannabe key in it or whatever, actually just the metal shaft of a key with no handle, if that makes sense (goofy) but then it turns out there isn't an actual mechanical keyslot for the trunk. Which I didn't know (only had a month), just the hidden push button switch for if you are in proximity with the fob. The little hidden key is for the doors where you can pop off a cover to reveal the secret keyslot and somehow hope in freezing weather it will actually fit in there, all one inch of it and actually be able to turn it... Fucking Japanese. (no offense to Japanese Arfcommers everywhere unless you are a car designer, then f you too )
The back seats don't go forward so good luck with that but just to be cruel there is a little fuck pass through hole that hides behind the flip down cupholder armrest goofy shit that you can use a five foot stick and try to fish the manual release which isn't by the opening but rather all the way as far as it can possible be away. But alas, they made it glow in the fucking dark so at least I have that going for me. Meanwhile, back under the hood in fuseville, in the cold ass lot, with the wind howling, there is this goofy ass plastic trim shit that covers everything in the engine compartment with all these HK like pushpins around the whole perimeter and in the middle and everywhere else and it's so cold the plastic is breaking tabs and not coming apart... FUCK. But you took the time to type all that before you were in the car?!?!?!? you are my ARF hero PM me your location , ill come pick up the guns and ammo |
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Is this where I share the Germantown FF had 545 ammo, various Saiga's, had an AR but that left between my parking lot visit and going back in again, had various handgun ammo that although isn't magical, wasn't there last time and the real magic is that I learned at the register you get a 50 gift card for 350 spent. For shit I was going to buy anyway. And it's OK for you to go around, use the 50 for your purchase and start again. Runs till Saturday. Anyone have an opinion of the Saiga 7.62? I actually don't have an AK-47 variant. Just 74's. It's not important enough that I'd pay any premium or panic pricing but if it was a deal... Oh yeah, they had a 5.45 rifle there, TGI with light wood and a thumbhole stock. Not my thing but I thought I would share.  |
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A 60 degree day separates two cold stretches, I don't care what politics has you believe, there is something fucked up with our weather. Call it global warming, or whatever you wish, I am starting to believe we will kill the earth with our pollution/trash.
On a side note, I almost locked myself out today. I was wearing a winter coat/hat/gloves and boots but I had shorts on, only headed to the mailbox. I almost broke the glass in my lower door out with my carry gun . Thankfully, my less that awesome door eventually opened with me jerking on it. I am very happy I stood my ground when signing a lease and having a steel entry door installed at the top of my stairs.
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The outlet tube for my sump pump keeps freezing solid . So i disconnected it in The basement and ran it to The floor drain which goes to The city sewer. I'm lucky I didn't burn it up the water in The sump was pretty toasty from it running all night and not going anywhere. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Better hope your sewer never backs up. |
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lol.... if it's stupid, but it works......
Nice to know what *can* work in a pinch. Yup, my grandpa & uncle lived up north their whole lives, and taught me lots of "tricks". They used the charcoal trick under vehicle oil-pans too, before block heaters and fuel injection became the norm. I remember seeing oil drip into the charcoal and "flash". I thought he'd blow up that 1955 Pontiac someday. "Ya gotta do what ya gotta do" gramps used to say.
it has almost been 6 years ago already i had 3 fords not one of them would start(all 3 had fuel injection) and i had to do the old charcoal fire trick a few times. but after the first time i got tried of laying ob the ground to get the pan under the car. What i did was get an old hair dryer and i tarped off the front of the car and let the hair dryer do its thing. the moral of that story is i have no room for ford in my driveway. I've had my F-250 W / 6.4L Diesel for four years. It has always started. If it's going to be under 15 degrees, I plug it in. Has started every morning without fail. |