Colder here. What's your temp? What ya burnin?

On the Colevill Delta. In the Arctic . Near the Beaufort Sea coast, Arctic Ocean. Drilling blast holes in the CD5 pit. We would blast sometimes 2 acres a day 22 feet deep. First 20 feet was overburden that was stockpiled. The next 45 feet down was good gravel. That winter was when Conoco Phillips really got going in the National Petroleum Reserve.
I ran Ingersol 2000 air tracks that winter. Probably the single coldest job on The Slope. Definitely the dirtiest. We towed big Ingersol 1600 compressors to run the drills. I like drilling. No one bugs you. Just you, your machine and the cold. That night was just a nice calm 45 below night. Some nights it would be that cold and blowing. Working all night in 70 below and colder windchill is pretty rugged for a guy in his mid 50s .
The hard perma frost goes down half a mile in that area. The best and by far most economical way to get gravel is to drill and blast it. The blasting crew went thru a 40' van of Anfo every 24 hours.
We were Laborers Union hourly. But we worked it like we were getting paid by the foot. Nights ( I worked night shift) went by pretty fast. I got too old to keep going back up. Laboring . So I got my CDL that summer and went to running iron , then driving truck. Now I just want to build our homestead and go back to firewood loggin locally.

 

Last night was the largest , fastest warm up after dark I think I've ever seen in The Interior. At 7 pm it was 42 below. At 9 pm it was 13 below. 29° in 2 hours . After dark.
The wind came up fairly strong and blew in warm air. It got up to -3 today. Now -4 but with the wc is still 30 to 40 below. Which is normal conditions for Delta Junction area.
Got white spruce in the stove. House is quite warm.

 

Clouds must have moved in with the warm winds? Seems that there is still a push of cold air heading south to me from your area. We are -15c/5f here, larch in the box.

 

10 out this morning but thankfully the wind has died down, loaded the OWB with maple and a few splits of red oak.

 

-24c/-11f under clear skies. Still waiting on the stove for a reload. Its our coldest morning so far this year. Im glad I kept my 14 year old husky in the house last night. Im sure she would have been fine but shes a family pet not a sled dog that spends an ample amount of time next to me by the wood stove.

 

After reading Cold Trigger Finger and Sean's above posts, I'm grateful to be a little south of them. 19F and burning Larch.

 

I agree. They’ve changed my definition of ‘cold’.


Mike in Okla

 

Upper 30's with rain moving in. Temperature is supposed to rise again tonight. That's twice this week. This has been the should season of all shoulder seasons.

Boiler has a small load of cherry on it which should be more than enough to make it until tomorrow AM.

 

Oak in the stove burgers on the grill

 

32F clear & no wind, really nice night with the full moon. Just burning a mix of smaller sized splits of whatever. No danger of freezing to death tonight.

 

At dinner time it was 12 below. At 9:15 when I took the dogs for their night walk it had warmed up a little. Now it's blowing pretty good again so I have no idea the temp.
White Spruce and some white Birch in the stove.

 

Digging the bricks!

 

Ahh.........no bending over!

 

15 head for the mid 20's. 66 inside, fire started in furnace. Gusts of 2 mph........its like a whisper out there compared to Wed/Thu!!!!!!!

 

31/76
Lumber cutoffs. Snow coming around noon.

 

I know exactly what would happen to me 5 minutes after dressing like that " damm I HAVE TO GO! I SHOULD HAVE NOT DRANK THAT TEA! JB

 

agree JB

 

34 and rain. 74 inside and just reloaded with hackberry.