To our Northern Members

[Zingger]

Thanks for the invite GhostHawk! I will send a PM next time before we leave, maybe I can bring a few Boolits to do some trading, or even some of the harder stuff! Stay warm sir.

[GregLaROCHE]

You guys really did get the shock treatment!

[Mr_Sheesh]

Pro tip, if your feet are cold, wiggle your toes. It really helps.

Seattle area's been rather cold the last few days, but not too cold. We're used to that, really. Just more used to "liquid sunshine" than the solid variant.

I have multiple gallons of methanol about for cooking, coleman fuel, about 5 cubic feet of fire starter I was given (Local mad scientist gent got badly injured and won't be camping any more, I will so I got those to share with folks...) And I'm pretty fair at various field expedient gear. Now if my dang knees weren't toast and I could walk easier, mumble.

If someone wants tips on how to fake a stove or whatever, just ask or post a thread, there is a LOT of helpful brainpower & experience on this site, and you can't help out here if you turn blue... Stay warm

[10-x]

Sorry, hard to beat this.....

[slim1836]

Sorry, hard to beat this.....

You're just rubbing it in.

Slim

[Texas by God]

We’ve had a hell of a lot more 70 degree days in February than we have had zero degree days in February, 10-x.
At least in my six decades in North Texas!

[Mk42gunner]

At the very least, this prolonged cold snap should mean fewer bugs next summer.

Robert

[Traffer]

Well here is a tip from a hardened northerner. I was living with some other young fellas when college aged. We had a wood burner that heated the whole house. The kitchen bathroom had a gas heater from a trailer we tore apart but that was the part of the house heated. -20° F IN my bedroom...had a broken window and snow on the floor. Anyway, here is the tip. Asphalt burns. As in "the road".
We had access to all the downed wood on a big farm about a half hour drive away. For two years we loaded up with a couple of cords of wood and our home made double stacked barrel stove sufficed for heat. The third year the guy who did almost all of the work said "If nobody helps me this fall, I ain't getting any wood. He was ignored and we indeed didn't have any wood to burn. So:
The first to go was the furniture...then the woodwork, then (here is the great tip) There was a road work spot in front of our house that got closed down for the winter. So we took axes and picks and helped ourselves to the asphalt. It burned well but lots of creosote and for every shovel of asphalt there was 3/4 shovel of sand to clear after it burned. You just don't care when it is that cold in the house. You WILL burn everything.

[10-x]

From Va. where it gets cold, lived in mountains several years, really cold there. Only thing I miss is good hunting in the winter. Since “ arthur” is in most my joints down here in Fl. is way better, can deal with hot humid any day. Back when I traveled for work was in Chicago one winter, -60 with wind chill, but that was about 35 years ago , had enough “ anti freeze” in blood, lol.

[megasupermagnum]

At the very least, this prolonged cold snap should mean fewer bugs next summer.

Robert

I wish this were true. Everyone always talks about the mosquitoes on MN. They are bad, but Florida has it worse. What MN does have is horse flies like nowhere else in the country that I have ever been. If you get up north a little ways, the Nemadji state forest is particularly bad, I swear you could just about be carried away by how many horse flies there are there.

[white eagle]

Come get your -2degree temperature and blowing white stuff. We're not built for it, we don't want it. Have a nice day!

Sent from my SM-A716U using Tapatalk

you got by easy
-29° here yesterday evening
afternoon high of 2°

[truckerdave397]

I hope that you southern guys and gals like your Michigan sampler pack.

[blackthorn]

You might be the son of a redneck if:----Years ago my oldest son reached an age wherein he decided that home house rules were too constricting, so, in company with one of his life-long friends he moved out. They rented about a 3200 square foot, 2 level house on the side of a mountain, heated with an oil furnace (underground tank). They filled the oil tank ($350.00) and a month later they ran out of oil (and it was not even real cold yet). On investigation, the tank was found to have a leak. This house had two very large fireplaces so they decided the obvious solution to their heating problem was to just heat the house with wood. Now neither of them had any real knowledge of wood heat and they scrounged up some semi-green maple, fir, cedar and whatever else they could get for free. Did not work out well. Their wood burned but did not produce much heat so, my boy improvised, using a trick we had used to straighten some car coil-springs, got a couple of lengths of metal pipe and stuck one end into the fireplace and stuck an electric hair dryer on the other end. Redneck blacksmith blower! Those 2 boys used that system all winter and they survived quite well, even to the point they cooked Christmas dinner for both families. One of the few (pre-divorce) adult Christmases I can honestly say I really enjoyed.

[Lloyd Smale]

Well here is a tip from a hardened northerner. I was living with some other young fellas when college aged. We had a wood burner that heated the whole house. The kitchen bathroom had a gas heater from a trailer we tore apart but that was the part of the house heated. -20° F IN my bedroom...had a broken window and snow on the floor. Anyway, here is the tip. Asphalt burns. As in "the road".
We had access to all the downed wood on a big farm about a half hour drive away. For two years we loaded up with a couple of cords of wood and our home made double stacked barrel stove sufficed for heat. The third year the guy who did almost all of the work said "If nobody helps me this fall, I ain't getting any wood. He was ignored and we indeed didn't have any wood to burn. So:
The first to go was the furniture...then the woodwork, then (here is the great tip) There was a road work spot in front of our house that got closed down for the winter. So we took axes and picks and helped ourselves to the asphalt. It burned well but lots of creosote and for every shovel of asphalt there was 3/4 shovel of sand to clear after it burned. You just don't care when it is that cold in the house. You WILL burn everything.

yup were kind of spoiled. My dad said when he was growing up he would wake up to snow on his bedroom floor and his ma stored canned goods under his bed and he saw them actually freeze a couple times. Even up here few actually insulated a house when they built it. Just used a bigger wood stove.

[SSGOldfart]

Well we have power ��this morning,and icy rain but at least it is @ 32°so our great winter may be over for now...

[redhawk0]

Remember...you can always put extra clothes on....but when the heat comes...you can only take off so much before people will point and laugh.

I love the North East.

redhawk

[SSGOldfart]

Let them laugh, I'll do what I have to do I can deal with the heat better than the cold.which is why I live in the south to start with.

Nothing wrong with the North East.

Simper-Fi

[varmintpopper]

So cold ! Had to milk the cows across my arm and carry the milk in like cordwood.

[Lloyd Smale]

Well we have power ��this morning,and icy rain but at least it is @ 32°so our great winter may be over for now...

yup warmed up finally here too. I was shoving the porch of in my sweatshirt at a balmy 15 above. Felt like summer.

[Lloyd Smale]

Remember...you can always put extra clothes on....but when the heat comes...you can only take off so much before people will point and laugh.

I love the North East.

redhawk

totaly agree. As much as i hate below zero I hate about 90 even more. About all i do is walk 75 feet from my air conditioned house to my air conditioned loading room or air conditioned vehicle. Id rather poke sticks in my eye then go to the range when it humid and 90 degrees.