Sometimes you just can't win.

oldtanker · Jan 27, 2014

Last winter I knew that I had 2 bearing on my snow blower that were real close to going by mid Feb. I limped it through the winter. Late this summer I got the blower ready and unlike most of the time if I'm ahead of the game it don't snow much. Well we really haven't had much snow but the blowing and drifting has been a problem. 2 weeks ago I started having chain problems. So I replace both chains thinking that I was good to go for the rest of the winter. Went to blow snow today (we got about 3" then that was followed but 30-40 MPH wind with gust up to 55) and didn't even get started when it blew a bearing, jumped the chain that drives the augers. So here I am. 3 hours with the torpedo heater just to get the tractor started (diesel 1206 IH) that had been plugged in overnight. Was -29F for a low last night. Was about -24F when I put the heater blowing on it this morning. Was about -18F when it started and -14F when I was working outside (don't have a shop big enough for the 1206) and finally got it fixed). Finished for today about 7:30 PM.

Anyone interested in swapping land say in LA or AL?????? I know you all are just dying to move to MN!!!!!

Rick

Rick

JerryS · Jan 27, 2014

When you come right down to it, is there really any difference between 25 below and 5 below? I think the distinction would be lost on me.

oldtanker · Jan 28, 2014

(quoted from post at 22:54:31 01/27/14) When you come right down to it, is there really any difference between 25 below and 5 below? I think the distinction would be lost on me.

Jerry yea there is. 5 below is bearable. -25 just sucks the air right out of your body. You can really feel the difference.

Rick

SweetFeet · Jan 28, 2014

Oh, heck yea!!! It just stinks!

Not only does -25º suck the air out of your lungs... it stings the skin off your face (well at least it feels like it does). Add a little "breeze" and it is downright painful.

After a day or two of -25º degrees... a sunny -5º degree day with no wind, will seem downright balmy.

Sad, but true. LOL. Don't know how the Canadians even survive winters up there - where is REALLY gets cold... bad enough here in MN.

JerryS · Jan 28, 2014

I too have wondered how they survive, Sweetfeet, and the truth is, if their energy systems failed, they probably wouldn't survive. I'll take the hot, humid Louisiana summers. For all my growing-up years I survived them without benefit of energy systems (AC, whole-house fans, etc.) Wouldn't want to have to do it again, but I could.

rockyridgefarm · Jan 28, 2014

'Fore you swap with a southerner, keep in mind - Ticks, Asian Rust, Kudzu, Wild Boars, Ticks, Ticks, oh, and Ticks.

I don't LOVE the cold, but I do LIKE it. Think of it as a cleansing that southerners don't get. And it keeps down the riff raff

Yeah, I just said that.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 28, 2014

You forgot snakes, cockroaches.

Mike (WA) · Jan 28, 2014

Not to much to complain about here, weather-wise, unless you can't stand gray days. But you can't grow soybeans, and you can't grow grain corn. Guess no place is perfect. Although Sequim, Washington might be close. Google it.

Fergienewbee · Jan 28, 2014

I've always wondered how Native Americans survived the winters on the prairie, not only the cold but feeding their horses.

Larry

boler76 · Jan 28, 2014

I am in Canada and we survived the cold -40s even before there were energy systems, all it takes is a little ingenuity and desire, only -22 here this am Have a fun day there guys

nybadlybent · Jan 28, 2014

I think you nailed it. Would add that we can go outside in the summer and I have never thought about getting central air conditioning or had to hire an exterminator.

samn40 · Jan 28, 2014

I know how some Canadians survive the cold.....One of them cuts timber and some of them milk cows in a nice cosy barn!
........Sam

Dick2 · Jan 28, 2014

Maybe they brought the horses inside to keep THEM warm?

keh · Jan 28, 2014

You forgot chiggers, AKA red bugs, and fire ants. T o repeat, FIRE ANTS.

KEH

Traditional Farmer · Jan 28, 2014

I wish all Yankees had your attitude but unfortunatley our county is full of Yankees that moved South,they say its the smart ones that move and the dumb ones stay behind.(LOL)

rockyridgefarm · Jan 28, 2014

(quoted from post at 06:19:26 01/28/14) I wish all Yankees had your attitude but unfortunatley our county is full of Yankees that moved South,they say its the smart ones that move and the dumb ones stay behind.(LOL)

The ones that move aren't strong enough to stay. We didn't want them here anyway ;-)

You can tell them I said that.

farmer boy · Jan 28, 2014

I'd be just fine. Heat with wood anyways.

It's already been proven that people become stupid when the electricity goes out. During the last ice storm in Dec., some people in Toronto lost all their frezzer stuffs when the power went out. It didn't occur to them to put it outside in the cold.

Old weldor · Jan 28, 2014

Got a friend that moved to Georgia,he says cockroaches are a
fact of life. He said he had a hard time getting used to seeing a
good looking chick with a can of chew in her hip pocket of her
tight jeans.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 28, 2014

I, in the military, spent a year atop a mountain in Greenland, and 2 1/2 yrs in Sault Ste Marie MI.
I guess it is ingrained into us, but I prefer the south. Most days in the south, we can do whatever we must, but I cannot imagine having to lay under a car and work on it in temps below 20*.
I live in BR LA.

in-too-deep · Jan 28, 2014

And I MOVED here! Under my OWN free will!

Chip812 · Jan 28, 2014

You also forgot 115 degrees (F) in the summer with high humidity to the point where you almost can't breathe... Perfect has to be somewhere in between?

Wheat Farmer · Jan 28, 2014

Home is Home, but always seems like there is a better place. We don't have many temp below 0°F and normally not above 85°F. But we want to sell and move some place better. This morning old place is 1°F and new place is -11°F. Maybe a big 4x4 RV with a large trailer for a shop. Now all you tractor people across the states put in hook up's. LOL

Leroy · Jan 28, 2014

You had a very good reason. Most would not.

Steve@Advance · Jan 28, 2014

Chiggers! Now those are some strange critters, kinda the watch dogs of the South!

Lived in Texas all my life, no need to go anywhere else...

When I was a kid, chiggers would eat me alive! As I got older, they hardly ever get me.

I've got an aunt and some cousins in North Carolina. They come down, go the same place I go, do the same things, I get no chiggers, they get covered!

What's up with that? Regional immunity?

Steve@Advance · Jan 28, 2014

Houston mosquitoes!

oldtanker · Jan 28, 2014

Must not be too bright :shock: :lol: !

Don't freeze yer you know what off!

Rick

Anonymous-0 · Jan 29, 2014

Hey, what's the problem with that? when you swap spit everything is alright.

showcrop · Jan 29, 2014

(quoted from post at 00:36:26 01/28/14) Oh, heck yea!!! It just stinks!

Not only does -25º suck the air out of your lungs... it stings the skin off your face (well at least it feels like it does). Add a little "breeze" and it is downright painful.

After a day or two of -25º degrees... a sunny -5º degree day with no wind, will seem downright balmy.

Sad, but true. LOL. Don't know how the Canadians even survive winters up there - where is REALLY gets cold... bad enough here in MN.

Well there are plenty of them that are not bothered by 25 below and are still riding around stealing trucks and snowmobiles. At least that's what the ICE agent at the border told us when we came back through without our truck, trailer or sleds.

Sometimes you just can't win.

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