When Does it Get to Cold to Work?

[Gypo Logger]

I would say 15 below C in the Great Lakes Region. With high winds at this temp., it will blow the mustard right off your hotdog!
Its the wind that gets you, that why an Arctic or Sno Pro is the way to go. You dont want to be far from your truck, unless prepared. 35 below is fun to experience in the Yukon, especially on a trip to the outhouse.
John

 

[treeguy347]

Still haven't found that temperature yet. It's been low double-digits/high singles here, and I've been climbing in it.

Michigan people are pretty resistant to cold...

Michigan Temperature Conversion Chart

 

[glens]

The last winter I lived in NW Colorado, for the month-long period of mid-January to mid-February, the high temperature reached -26°F (-32°C) and with wind chill factored in, it was -40°F (and C).  That's partly why I moved away.

That's the way I remember it at any rate -- there's much I don't recall from back then...

 

[don]

When the fuel jells up

I really hate it when fuel starts to jelly.

 

[StIhL MaGnUm]

Well with the wind chill of about -15,-20*F around here I took all last week off but I still dobbed around with cordwood and cut and split 10 cord I gotta deliver it today..Usually when it hits -20 thats when logging starts to really slow down around here..


Later Rob..

 

[Tony Snyder]

When the equipment won't start.

 

[oakman]

this is as far as i have got outside in the last couple weeks. my shop is 6 feet from my house. yea, i'm a lazy logger...............

 

[Gypo Logger]

Man, it was cold today! I think it was 62 below, freeze the balls off a brass monkey!
As soon as you step outside, it feels like you got hit by a swinging bag of chisels

 

[oakman]

hey, that looks like my old buddy, Aqualung!

 

[che]

It was a balmy -3 degrees F this morning when I was out unrolling hay. I keep the tractor plugged in on a timer so it's 'warm' between 7 and 10AM. Even so.....it was a bear to start.

Once you're out there it's fine...but getting the gumption to GO out there is something else.

I'm trying to figure out a way to wear my AM/FM radio ear muffs (a short antenae sticks up off one ear piece) ***AND*** wear a hat that would at least cover my forehead. I tried putting them <i>over</i> the hat yesterday...the tractor was still too loud...and today I wrapped a scarf around my forehead like an old hippie....didn't work so well. I think I'll have to design/sew something....

Luckily....I have a trailer FULL of hedge and don't have to worry about cutting anything for a bit.

 

[Gypo Logger]

Hi Che', I have this type of scarf that is circular, like a sorta of thick turtle neck thingy. Anyway, it is really warm and when Susie came here from Wash., she always wore it, and refered to it as a "napey neckie thingee". It is ideal and is better than a scarf.
John

 

[Fish]

Don't start wearing turtlenecks!
They are only worn by gay guys around here. Not that there
is anything wrong with that.
Thet also drink wine coolers and mexican beer with limes,
and have decompression releases on their saws{limp wrist thing}
And all they do is ????? about the cold.............
Err, never mind.....

 

[eyolf]

I enjoy these "cold weather" threads...I don't feel like such a wimp anymore when others admit they're cold at warmer temps.

Truth be told, Che probably has it coldest of all. I attended a funeral in Carbondale, Ill. on a 25 degree day there. 25 degrees, there, was way colder and more chilling than 25 below here in Mn.

 

[Gypo Logger]

Does this mean I shouldnt be wearing my rainbow suspenders anymore? I was wondering why I was getting teased while in camp.
John

 

[dbabcock]

No, the reason you were teased at camp was because you were running around saying "Hi there" to everyone and wearing rainbow suspenders.

 

[Fish]

And wearing nothing else.

 

[Fish]

I forgot...

And wearing nothing else, but a "chainsaw"[on topic].

 

[treeclimber165]

Hey Fish-
Speaking of wearing nothing but a chainsaw, what was the spread on that game?

 

[Gypo Logger]

Alright! I've just about had it with you fellas teasing me!
Next picture I take of me falling a tree, I will be wearing a kilt with rainbow suspenders and a pink wig, saying "Hi There".
John

 

[Fish]

That was quite a spread.
Llamabert in a kilt, that would be quite a sight, I love a man in
wool plaid.