-14 this morning and -7 now. Went out to the garage, flipped on the compressor and all I got was a chug...chug...stall. The oil was so think the darn thing wouldn't even turn over! Guess I wasn't meant to work out there today.
D-d-d-darn it's cold!
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You think you're Cold!
I just read on the news that it's -30 degrees (that's Minus 30 degrees!), Chill Factor in Chicago!
I'm glad I don't live there anymore!
I managed to escape about 5 years ago!Stop thinking why you can't and Start thinking how you CAN!
Remember, SUCCESS comes in CANS!
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That makes our 0 degree temperature seem down right balmy. As I post this from the shop/garage the temperature is 33 and holding. It makes me long for those hot August days.
Mike
"It's not the things you don't know that will hurt you, it's the things you think you know that ain't so." - Mark TwainComment
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I feel your pain, guys. When I locked the Playpen down at 7:45 tonight the mercury had plumeted to 65 degrees!Don, aka Pappy,
Wise men talk because they have something to say,
Fools because they have to say something.
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I managed about 2 hours in the garage today, but the cordless tools eventually froze. That and the fact I was so cold I couldn't blink....Comment
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I don't look at the temperature anymore. It depresses me. When I look at any temperature under 32 degrees all I can think about is the sound of my furnace running and how much it is costing to keep me from freezing to death. Forget about running tools in this their all out in an unheated garage.Comment
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I'm with Pappy on this one. A frigid 44 degrees in Atlanta at 00:45 AM (45 minutes after mid-night) and going down to 33 degrees expected.
Brrrrrrr...... And it won't be back to 60 degree's till at least 11:00 AM in the morning.. brrrrrr...... My natural gas space heater will have to struggle for at least 10 minute tomorrow morning to get the shop up to around 70 degrees where I like it.... brrrrrrr.......
Take care guys and stay warm.. hey, that's why my wife moved to Atlanta from a small town east of Pittsburg 25 years ago and from all indications.. isn't moving back anytime soon.
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I had the air conditioner going in my truck today, it was about 80*.
don't get frostbite!Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas EdisonComment
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I spent most of Saturday in the shop in shorts and T-shirt installing an air cleaner and generally cleaning/straightening up. Had the garage doors wide open and it was nice but later in the day it must have gotten below 70 or so because the breeze was getting chilly so I had to give up for the day.
Of course, when I lived in Wisconsin I can remember winter nights working on race cars where we had to break wrenches free from the concrete floor where they had frozen in place when set down....
I hate winter! (in Wisconsin, kind of like it in North Carolina....)Tom Hintz
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We're not far from Chicago. Didn't even get out of the house yesterday. That's the perks of retirement.
EdDo you know about kickback? Ray has a good writeup here... https://www.sawdustzone.org/articles...mare-explained
For a kickback demonstration video http://www.metacafe.com/watch/910584...demonstration/Comment
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Yeah, -4 at my house this morning. It wouldn't have been so bad, except that I had to take our three dogs out every 1/2 hour yesterday to pee. I kept switching from T-shirt in the basement while building my shop cabinets, to bundled up braving the -20 wind chill outside. They normally get two long walks per day, but it was too cold for them and us. Since they didn't get their walks, they were very bored and whined all day.Comment
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This cold builds character. I must have a lot of character, because it was about -40 yest. with the wind chill! (So cold my dog refused to poop when I walked her...)
On the other hand, keeps the riffraff out. We know where the lowlifes go this time of the year, and it ain't rural WI. Also, we'll have to check in with Pappy and the other Sunbelt stalwarts in 6 months to see if they're fed up with the extreme heat and want to move up North!Jeff
“Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing”--VoltaireComment
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Out here in SoCal, it was unusually cold last month. In the 30's and 40's. The last few days have been unusually warm.
My flowering pear tree thinks its spring already.
I was at Fort Campbell in January 1963, when Kentucky had its lowest recorded temperature. We were out in the boondocks for maneuvers. Overnight, it went from cold rain to 16 below. Our squad tent froze solid. We took the poles out and left it there until the thaw.
SteveI would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. Bertrand RussellComment
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