To cold to be in garage

[Keith True]

Seems like the cold is triggering a lot of check engine lights.I've had a few people with that problem,but the guys that work on modern cars daily said they have been swamped with customers with check engine lights on.

[Davew]

Had -27 last night. Warming up to -17 today. Getting in some ice fishing.

[Oldbluoval]

I heat my shops mostly with propane fan forced
It can sure get expensive in cold weather like this

[Synchro909]

Originally Posted by hardtimes

Give you some pointers :
Salt water crocs love beach goers sleeping on beach;Coupla thousand miles between us and a croc. I like it that way!
Ogling (stare at in a lecherous manner) will get you confinement here with 'loving' roommate and without model a privileges ;The secret is do it on the sly, like you're taking a peek in the rear vision mirror.
Do not relocate to Socal as we are running out of water, rare A parts and sunny weather(climate change, eh)Will likely be in that part of the world in a few month's time so we'll bring some rain with us. !

A few years back, we were staying with Canadian friends in their log cabin and he explained to us what we should do if we came across a bear. Let's say we made sure we didn't after that! A couple of years later, they were visiting us and said that they were concerned about all if the spiders and stuff he had heard we have. I laughed and reminded him of the bear explanation, then said "This is how you handle spiders" as I stamped my foot on the ground "Job done", I said. He felt much happier after that.

[Terry, NJ]

My cousin is an Ironworker in Arizona and he told me he'd been nailed twice by scorpions. Both times they climbed up his pants leg and got him in the upper thigh. He always wondered why he didn't feel them when they were lower on his pants. I wondered that too!
Terry

Originally Posted by Synchro909

A few years back, we were staying with Canadian friends in their log cabin and he explained to us what we should do if we came across a bear. Let's say we made sure we didn't after that! A couple of years later, they were visiting us and said that they were concerned about all if the spiders and stuff he had heard we have. I laughed and reminded him of the bear explanation, then said "This is how you handle spiders" as I stamped my foot on the ground "Job done", I said. He felt much happier after that.

[SeaSlugs]

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[40 Deluxe]

Originally Posted by Simonpie

I raced in a 24 hour motorcycle ice race in 50 below once. Everything broke. Steel chains shattered. Plastic fenders broke off. 2 stroke oil came out of the bottle like a thick greasy rope. When you stopped squeezing, it sucked back up into the bottle.
We had propane tank top heaters that we had to point at each other. Otherwise, the propane got too cold to flow. Every rider lost a little flesh somewhere. If Edmonton didn't have oil, I don't think anyone would live there.

So did anyone even finish the race?

[mhsprecher]

Originally Posted by DougVieyra

"The coldest Winter I ever spent . . . was a Summer in San Francisco."
~ Mark Twain

One of favorite quotes of all time.

[Cool Hand Lurker]

Up here in the Northland when it gets to be about 0º F oil gets as thick as ketchup trying to get out of the bottle. The six volt battery in the Model A cranks the motor REALLY slow and makes a noise like "nnnooooooo" before it quits. And if your choke doesn't work you might as well go back into the house. But there are some nice things that happen too. Like at about 5º F the frozen snow squeaks under your feet as you walk out to the shop. Kinda cool. The air you breathe is so clear and clean, the sun shining on the snow is so bright it just makes you forget everything else. But you have to take care.
As your body cools down it protects itself by pulling the warm blood circulation into the body core and slowing it down in the extremities. Your ears, nose, cheeks, hands and feet get colder. If you rub those parts to get them warm again the circulation improves. I was living in Bemidji years ago and one winter evening I was out by the barn splitting oak firewood. Bare hands and jacket open, but not cold at all. There was no wind, the sky was clear and the Milky Way was in full sight plus there were Northern Lights coming up from all sides that met in a dark ring at the top. Beautiful. Peaceful.
At about 11:00 pm I decided to go in and looked up at the thermometer on the barn wall. It was -20º. I had to look twice to be sure. I couldn't believe that the body could be conditioned to be comfortable at that temp but it is absolutely true!
Since then I don't let the cold temps stop me from doing things. If we did that in Minnesota or Canada we would never get anything done in the winter. We might as well head south. Maybe Iowa, eh?

[Mikeinnj]

Originally Posted by Cool Hand Lurker

Up here in the Northland when it gets to be about 0º F oil gets as thick as ketchup trying to get out of the bottle. The six volt battery in the Model A cranks the motor REALLY slow and makes a noise like "nnnooooooo" before it quits. And if your choke doesn't work you might as well go back into the house. But there are some nice things that happen too. Like at about 5º F the frozen snow squeaks under your feet as you walk out to the shop. Kinda cool. The air you breathe is so clear and clean, the sun shining on the snow is so bright it just makes you forget everything else. But you have to take care.
As your body cools down it protects itself by pulling the warm blood circulation into the body core and slowing it down in the extremities. Your ears, nose, cheeks, hands and feet get colder. If you rub those parts to get them warm again the circulation improves. I was living in Bemidji years ago and one winter evening I was out by the barn splitting oak firewood. Bare hands and jacket open, but not cold at all. There was no wind, the sky was clear and the Milky Way was in full sight plus there were Northern Lights coming up from all sides that met in a dark ring at the top. Beautiful. Peaceful.
At about 11:00 pm I decided to go in and looked up at the thermometer on the barn wall. It was -20º. I had to look twice to be sure. I couldn't believe that the body could be conditioned to be comfortable at that temp but it is absolutely true!
Since then I don't let the cold temps stop me from doing things. If we did that in Minnesota or Canada we would never get anything done in the winter. We might as well head south. Maybe Iowa, eh?

A man who cuts firewood warms himself twice.

[Bulligen]

I was just outside for a while and its 8 below here. Not to bad as there is no wind !