OT/different kind of cold

rrlund · Dec 23, 2009

Geez,a balmy 10 degrees this morning. Not news for Michigan,been there before this year,but I had more darned trouble with it than if it was 30 below! There was just a slight east breeze,but I wouldn't have thought enough to cause this many problems. I tried to turn the hydrant on in the barn and couldn't pull the handle up. Had to run the torpedo heater on it. Then I backed the silage cart into the bunker silo. Luckily I had the good sense to try to start it up. The conveyor chain had a paddle froze down right in the bottom and it didn't shear the pins,it broke the welds on the plates that the pins go through right off the hub. I ran the heater under that for about 45 minutes. I won't even get into the tube sticking out of the tire or the furnace starting up every ten minutes as if there was a window open.

paul · Dec 23, 2009

East wind is always a bad one on this farn. NW winds of 30 mph can howl outside and not bother much of anything, but an east wind is usually damp, bone-chilling, no trees on that side to block it, and drifts or dumps big drifts of snow in the yard.

They are forcasting 3 days of east wind, with up to a foot of snowfall & up to 40mph gusts at times.

Oh joy.

--->Paul

cj in wisconsin · Dec 23, 2009

Nothing worse than an east wind here either, all sheds etc are set up for west to northwest wind protection and the east winds always have a more raw feel for whatever reason, maybe its a mental thing that when the wind is out of the east there is almost always a storm on the way! Either way its no fun.

thurlow · Dec 23, 2009

It's that wind chill factor causing your equipment troubles; didn't you follow the wind chill thread a couple of weeks ago? :>)

Bill(Wis) · Dec 23, 2009

It's that big puddle to our east.

Bill(Wis) · Dec 23, 2009

Yes! I believe it's calculated by dividing the square root of the condensation altitude by the hypoteneuse of the barometric pressure as expressed in hecto-pascals.

rrlund · Dec 23, 2009

Nope,missed it. Anyway,the hydrant is inside the barn and the silage cart was in a barn only open to the south. Misserable east winds sure tend to make me ornery,I know that much for sure. Got a good laugh out of Scotty at the tire store when I took that tire to get it fixed. That's another story though. Let's just say everybody in the place was laughing but him.

JD2ACWD · Dec 23, 2009

well I ended up getting a backhoe in to fix my hydrant the plastic elbow was cracked, oh well whats 350 bucks! only a foot of frost

rrlund · Dec 23, 2009

Well,I traded a fat steer to get that new water line run under the road 2 weeks ago. Plus I paid for the materials,so $350 doesn't sound so bad.

thurlow · Dec 23, 2009

EXACTLY what I was gonna say; you're just quicker on the trigger........

Drake Pa · Dec 23, 2009

It was cold this morning here! I didn't catch the exact temperature but my hair was completly frozen by the time I got to the bus this morining.
Drake

Michael Soldan · Dec 23, 2009

Yes and years ago we learned that there was no sense in going hunting if an east wind was starting up, the animals have it figured out that something ain't right and they hole up for the day..rabbits foxes, coyotes all hunker down and you're wasting your time running the dogs with an east wind.

RayP(MI) · Dec 23, 2009

Yeah, rr was pretty darn miserable here today. I ended up doing most of the outside chores today, as wife had other duties. Cold just went right thru me, in spite of the sun (part of the day). My feet are still cold even with double wool socks.

Hang on - it'll get worse! This is Michigan!

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