Yeah. So I'm done with winter.

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Yeah. So I'm done with winter.

Reply #75 – February 05, 2014, 10:50:34 PM

This fence between my house and the neighbor's house is 4 feet high. That's what happens when it keeps snowing. Bigger and bigger snow piles.

Yeah. So I'm done with winter.

Reply #76 – February 06, 2014, 09:24:04 AM

Quote from: Chuck W;428436

It got cold and snowy here pretty much right after Thanksgiving, which is unusual.
Outside of a couple "warm" days in the 40's since then, it's been cold and snowy. I also have a bunch of stuff I'd like to do on the car, but I'm not in the mood to eff with it in the cold, unless it's a necessity.

Almost verbatim. shiznit's gettin' old. Another few inches yesterday that was so dense and heavy it may as well have been water. My lower back doesn't get workouts like this no matter how hard I hit the gym.

Yeah. So I'm done with winter.

Reply #77 – February 06, 2014, 09:34:25 AM

You could always refuse to partite any further.

Yeah. So I'm done with winter.

Reply #78 – February 06, 2014, 11:53:20 AM

We've had it like Chuck here, too. Got cold in November, started snowing in mid December, and has been consistently cold and with regular snow storms ever since. It was the first white Christmas we'd had in years. We did have a nice break in mid January, a week of rain and temperatures in the low 50's, which melted all of the snow we had up to that point, but then it cooled right down again and the snow came back with reinforcements. There are about 36" total on the ground now.

Thankfully last night's storm was a dud. We ended up with about 6".

Yeah. So I'm done with winter.

Reply #79 – February 06, 2014, 12:44:26 PM

We got an inch or two of a frozen mix on Wednesday morning which was followed by freezing rain. Everything had coating of ice on it. This stuff was much worse to shovel than the 6" of wet snow we got on Monday. What a pain in my back.

Yeah. So I'm done with winter.

Reply #80 – February 06, 2014, 03:25:35 PM

Quote from: V8Demon;428474

My lower back doesn't get workouts like this no matter how hard I hit the gym.

Yeah I'm still not sure how to replicate the lower back workout I get from shoveling. No exercise I've ever done compares.

Yeah. So I'm done with winter.

Reply #81 – February 06, 2014, 06:33:32 PM

cut, split, and stack firewood. From oak trunks 4' across, no less.

Shoveling snow ain't shiznit, compared.
I had to use a 4 wheeler to push a few of them into my woodshed to the splitter. Hell of a time flipping them over, too. Each 30" long, 4' thick chunk of trunk made over 20 pieces of firewood.
Good thing: it's all dry, and was bulldozed down a year ago. Let it sit for a couple of weeks, and it burns fine.

All I have to do is drag it up the house. Now, if I can figure out how to get the brake unseized on the big Case tractor...dirty bastid.

Yeah. So I'm done with winter.

Reply #82 – February 06, 2014, 06:36:12 PM

I've cut trees. I never seem to twist the way I do as compared to when I shovel.

Yeah. So I'm done with winter.

Reply #83 – February 06, 2014, 09:52:15 PM

Quote from: V8Demon;428512

I've cut trees. I never seem to twist the way I do as compared to when I shovel.

I think it's something with the twist and throw. Maybe I should start digging holes in my yard over the summer. Pretty similar movements :hick:.

Yeah. So I'm done with winter.

Reply #84 – February 06, 2014, 10:00:54 PM

Not me. I had to dig two deep holes in the height of summer's heat (and drought) last summer. Then I filled those holes with two of the best dogs I ever had...4 months apart.

I'll stick to snow and firewood for a good long while yet.

Normally, cutting the firewood in and of itself wouldn't be that bad, but these chunks are around 350 pounds before splitting (guessing, anyway). Then there's the splitting them, bending over, pickin' 'em up and stacking them. It makes for a tylenol night.

I've got chunks so big that if I had to lift them, I'd have to use a hoist. Thankfully my splitter can be horizontal and vertical...so vertical is it. But I have to roll the pieces in the shed and then raise them about an inch and half. After that, they get whittled down pretty effectively.
With propane over 6 bucks/gallon, and diesel fuel only a buck or so less, wood heat suddenly seems to be pretty ed agreeable, despite the work.

Y'all can have the snow..I'll keep the wood, even though I believe shoveling snow is easier. Maybe it's just the way I shovel it, too...I don't know.

Yeah. So I'm done with winter.

Reply #85 – February 07, 2014, 08:17:52 AM

-9 without the windchill this morning. I had to stop and get gas too. That wind felt like razors on my face. I thought I was gonna have a Jeff Goldblum moment and have an ear fall off.

Yeah. So I'm done with winter.

Reply #86 – February 07, 2014, 10:03:18 AM

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-9 without the windchill this morning.

That's my personal record low that I've personally experienced. Had to endure that on a flight ramp while changing an actuator on the rear spar of an aircraft. Wind Chill pushed it to -39.
The real kick in the pants was the fact that the bolts were too small for me to manipulate with gloves and when you swap these out, sometimes jet fuel will weep out..... Guess where the fuel went? Right on my hands.....

What is normally a 20 minute job for 1 took almost an hour for 2 of us. Had to keep swapping out every few minutes.

Yeah. So I'm done with winter.

Reply #87 – February 07, 2014, 11:04:29 AM

Quote from: V8Demon;428569

That's my personal record low that I've personally experienced. Had to endure that on a flight ramp while changing an actuator on the rear spar of an aircraft. Wind Chill pushed it to -39.
The real kick in the pants was the fact that the bolts were too small for me to manipulate with gloves and when you swap these out, sometimes jet fuel will weep out..... Guess where the fuel went? Right on my hands.....

What is normally a 20 minute job for 1 took almost an hour for 2 of us. Had to keep swapping out every few minutes.

I've noticed that the only things that ever break in the winter have tiny bolts/screws that you can't manipulate with gloves on. Why? Because machines hate us

Yeah. So I'm done with winter.

Reply #88 – February 07, 2014, 04:05:55 PM

Quote from: coogarxr;428563

i thought i was gonna have a jeff goldblum moment and have an ear fall off.

lol!

Yeah. So I'm done with winter.

Reply #89 – February 07, 2014, 05:59:51 PM

I experienced -40 (that's C and F) many years ago in Calgary. That was the actual temp, no wind chill. It sucked...

Coldest I can remember it being here in NS is -35C (-31F) without wind. Oddly, that night was one of the most fun snowmobiling nights I ever had. Perfectly clear out, full moon, the snow sparkling that way it does when it's really cold, the machines working perfectly, and when we stopped to have a smoke or eat a snack it was perfectly still.

A typical "cold" night around here is -25C (-13F) with windchills of -35 or so. "Normal" weather this time of year is between -2 (28F) and +2 (36F), going down to -10 to -15 (14 to 5 F) at night. We're a semi-Maritime climate - close enough to the ocean that it moderates our temperature, but the prevailing winds come from the continent so we can get some cold blasts as well. Unfortunately we're also the "arsehole of North America" - just about every storm that forms over the continent, from Texas to Alberta, eventually passes through here. Often it's rain in winter, but this year it has almost always been snow. Radio said so far since Jan 1, we've gotten just under six feet of snow. If we don't get another flake this year it'll be more than double our normal January/February/March total...