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Breaking the low temp records ---Brrrr

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  1. Scotty Overkill

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    Whitey, I burn between 6 and 8 cord a year (depending on the severity of winter), so I'm being conservative saying I've got 5 years' worth. In actuality, I'm probably closer to 7 because for the past year now, the only stuff going into my stacks is oak, locust, beech and hard maple......so that SHOULD (in theory) make my consumption do down, because I base my consumption on a mix of all kinds of softer woods (ash, soft maple, walnut, cherry, etc.). Not that those other woods aren't good (by any means), I just like being able to not have to load the firebox as much. And being the wood has 5 or more years to season, oak is the king anymore (even though I'm still partial to my beloved locust).

    my cutting partner recently acquired a old farmhouse with a big OWB so I've been letting him have at all the other stuff, I still take half of the oak/beech/hard maple, and he let's me have all the hickory too.

    Yeah, I've got issues....lol
     
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  2. MightyWhitey

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    I'm jealous!! Wish I lived closer so I could scrounge your rejected wood!!
     
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  3. wildwest

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    Sorry, looks like the arctic front is making its way into the midwest. Stay warm friends :)
     
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  4. Woodchuck

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    Calling for 9 deg F and clear here tonight. Ready to battle Mother Nature with a nice stack of red oak :fire:
     
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  5. bogydave

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    Yea, here since 1978.

    Worst at home was -32°f. Truck wouldn't turn over. Oil to thick. After that I started using synthetic oil, Amsoil 0-30. Works .
    I ran with cardboard in front of the radiator , many rigs (all big rigs ) have a vinyl zipper winter bra on the front.
    If below zero I put cardboard in before leaving the shop , (nice to have heated shop, should've had one years ago :) )
    Carry appropriate extra boots & clothing if driving any distance from home.

    Been in -40° (Celsius & /Fahrenheit meet at -40°) at work,
    outside jobs shuts down for us at -30°f. Metal gets brittle. Stings the skin on your face.
    Diesel equipment runs 24/7

    But yea
    I have experiences no heat coming out of a vehicle heater, inside of the windows ices up .
    Not fun !
    Vehicles with electric fans are better,
    still need to cover the radiators if it gets below -10°f IMO.
    Antifreeze (60/40 mix, glycol/water) good for -60°f I think.

    Have had to replace engine freeze plugs,
    Some engine heaters go there, knock out the freeze plug & put in an electric heater.

    Global warming last year & this year,
    I'm getting soft. LOL :)
     
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  6. bogydave

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    -80 seems a reach IMO. story probably got embellished over the years.
    Must have been near the Arctic Circle :)

    Record cold for Fairbanks :
    "Although flanked by regions prone to minus 70, Fairbanks itself has avoided such severe cold.
    Official records claim Fairbanks has felt the weather get only as cold as minus 62 °F (-52.2 °C),
    which occurred at the airport on December 12, 1961."

    "The coldest blast of weather set the US's record low temperature of minus 80 °F (-62.2 °C) on January 23, 1971. That record was made during three days of temperatures in the minus 70s which lasted from January 22 to 24 near the Arctic Circle in central Alaska"
     
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