Ice in the Shop

blgoode

blgoode

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Man...you know its cold when an old cup of coffee from Sunday has turned to ice...at 6:00 pm!!! In NC!!!! That doesnt happen here...MUCH :p
 
Today started off at negative 4 (windchill was more like 10 below). Don't think it ever made it above 12. I hate winter :grumpy:
Don't think its supposed to warm up anytime soon. I'm about to run away from home for somewhere warm.
I'm getting real tired of taking a torch to my dip bucket everytime I want to run the grinder :grumpy:
 
Yeah well here in south Texas it snowed on Christmas and after that it was around 80 degrees and mosqitos were out.:(
 
cup of coffee froze, shoot my 5 gallon grind and dipping buckets froze solid. I hate winter.

Bill
 
And here I am fresh outta propane for the forge, which is my only source of heat in my barn ("shop"). It was 8 out there a lil while ago and everything liquid is now solid. I gotta get more gas as I am getting my KMG thurs or Fri!!!

Bundled up,

PJG
 
Tell me about it, ever since renovating the old milk room as a shop I've been freezing my but off. :grumpy: The block walls and high celing will be nice in the summer but it don't hold heat worth spit and even an oil heater is about like a fart in a whirl wind. If it was ventilated a little better, and didn't have so many explosive substances around, I'd lite the forge in there just to get a little heat going! I think I've gotten about an hours work done in the last 4 days. :(
 
Yuck... working in that kind of cold is really hard... knifemaking anyway. The fingers get stiff.

It was around 30 or so for a week here, which is pretty darn cold for here.

But now we've got this "Pineapple express" going through here, and it's a warm 65. I was wearing a tank-top in the shop in total comfort!!!

Weather is a crazy thing....

I feel for you guys that have it soooo cold!

People say, "oooh, I couldn't handle all that rain you get in WA." But I'll tell 'ya, we've got a VERY mild year-round climate.

-Nick-
 
The worst part is trying to get the quench oil into a liquid state again. ;) Finally I just heated up a bar of brass and quenched that a couple of times to heat the oil. I don't bother taking coffee out to the forge anymore - it's cold before I get to the garage. :D
 
Went out at 5:30AM to grind some blades.Dunk tank is frozen solid.It is 16 degrees outside.Came back in,maybe it will snow this weekend and warm things up a bit.
 
It's around 40- 60 over here, and so, in typical texas fashion- I'm freezing my butt off. I've got a mini cold going right now, we have P.E. today (don't get me wrong- I like it and all, but its more 40ish around here, and we run the mile outside.), and other than that, it's good. The one thing I can say for cold, is that it kills all of the flyies in the barn.
 
Yep we got slapped with the cold on the east coast after it rained continuously. Now they are calling for snow tonight, chance Thurs. nite and a possibility of ALOT Sat. nite thru MON.!! :eek: The good thing is these dorks we have for weather man can never get it right. I have my shop set up in the basement so I'm not having a problem with the cold. It's chilly but when you're moving you stay warm. I feel for you guys in the midwest with the temps I've been hearing on the news. Yesterday the Minnesota and North Dakota border was 57 below zero. They said gas pump lines were breaking. :eek: So I guess our 12 degrees isn't so bad. :D
Scott
 
Bah! Bunch o' SISSIES! Anything above 0F is real man's weather... providing you ain't wearing anything heavier than a T-shirt. :D
 
I know what you mean about cold,I just bought a Salamander 55,000 BTC
I am in there 10 minutes and I have to turn it down,Well worth the 180 I paid for it,instant heat and it has a thermostate on it,cycles like a gas furnace
Turn it one and leave the shop come back i0 minutes later and it is comfortable!!!
 
Jeez, I live in Florida, and I live here for a reason, I remember what it was like to have my toes get cold and never warm up. That's why I've moved form Michigan to Florida twice. :)

I was in the shop yesterday, and was wearing my birkenstocks, but I also had the wood burner goin' After all it was darn cold here yesterday, it got down to something like 50º in the afternoon. BRRR

Tony
 
Hey Tony.........Shut UP~


Just kidding pal. At least one of us has great shop weather. :D
 
blgoode said:
Hey Tony.........Shut UP~


Just kidding pal. At least one of us has great shop weather. :D
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Yeah but ask him what his shop temp inside is like in August. :eek:
 
Guess what those dorky weatherman got it right, it's snowing here as I write this. Not much, a couple of inches. I'm heading to the mountains of PA. tomorrow with a buddy to "play" with some knives. :D Chopping, splitting and practice our fire building skills. Hope to get some pics.
Scott
 
I know about the bugs in August! We revampted an old jail in Amelia Island and turned it into a museum. Anyone live near there? I have a knife handle from wood I found when we ripped out walls. Not sure what it is but its Dense! and oily. It was a black brown till I cut it. I thought it may be olive but ????
http://www.bgoodeknives.com/images/widebellyskinner.jpg
 
Hot, cold, wet, dry....None of it bothers me....unless I get them all at once.

Last week it was in the 60's and 70's. That's very unusual for this area. Then, at the end of the week we had thunder storms and a ton of rain then another tornado....in January :eek:.

The ground hasn't dried out from the last set of floods so the water table here, is about 3" below thee surface. Nothing and I mean nothing soaks in, It just runs off and pays me a visit on the way.

After our little faux spring, the temperatures dropped all at once. Down to 15 then 12. todays high is 22. So I have frozen floods here.

The Government has to have something to do with this! :footinmou
 
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