Too dang cold to work on knives!

everything hurts worse in the cold, especially bumbs and scarpes on your hands and knuckles
 
It was a balmy 5°F here this morning before sunrise, which is up a few from last week. Shop is froze solid in the shade on the north side of the house-the snow there won't melt until at least April.
 
silver_pilate said:
Unky, what is cel....celc.....celsius? Is that one of them euro-peeun ways of scrawlin somethin? ;)

I don't envy my brothers up in the frozen expanses of the north, though I DO love snow. Someday I need to get a cabin in the mountains of Colorado where I can go and get my snow fix. Then leave when I've had my fill. :D

Yesterday, when I awoke, the roads were covered in ice and there was frost and ice on everything. By lunchtime the temps were in the 50's, the wind was blowing 40mph sustained with gusts up to around 63 (that's 101 KPH for my northern bretherin ;) ), and there was more dirt in the air than on the ground. Felt like spring. And today the high is going to be around 30. :confused:

--nathan
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I live over on the west side of the cap rock to the southwest of you. We had the frost and ice on everything but the roads were dry. Guess we slowed the wind down some before it got to you. Right at noon about a fourth of the shingles on the west side of my house blew off. Guessing from a lifetime on the south plains I'd say about 70-75 mph. I could barely stand up when I ran outside to see how bad the damage was. Cloudcroft up the hill reported winds of 100+ mph.

I'm lucky in a way. It's pasture from across the road to the Pecos river, about 60 miles as the crow flies. At least the dirt wasn't too bad. I grew up at Lamesa so I know a little about west Texas when the wind blows.
 
I'm familiar with that type of weather. I'm from the Texas Panhandle, and I still swear to this day that there is nothing between that country and the North Pole except a couple barbed wire fences....;)

Not to mention all the tornados......

Brad
 
Arrowhead,

I heard you guys had some pretty rough winds. 75 mph can ruin your whole day. The strongest I've seen here were 90 mph straight line winds (thunderstorm microburst). We lost our entire fence that night along with a bunch of shingles. I grew up in the middle of a cotton field with the nearest neighbor being over 1/2 a mile away. Fastest non-thunderstorm gusts I've seen were about 75 as well, and we've had days of 60 mph sustained winds.

Thanks for slowing things down a bit the other day :D.

--nathan
 
WOW I guess I shouldn't complain . 22 here this morning and 27 now at 8pm still a mite cold for me but I 'll take it over the 112 I was feelin in the shop last summer.
 
Wade Jones said:
-11 here last night.
Wanted to get into the garage to work on a piece for my son for Christmas, but it wasn't happening. The cold sneered at my tiny space heater.
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I know what you mean, it was only 56 this morning and there was no way I was going out in the shop to work in that weather!
 
Lows of -30 for the past couple of nights. I haven't seen the warm side of zero since last week.

Thank god my shop is in my basement and I have radiator pipes over my head. :D
 
Fifty mile an hour winds here today. I hear it will reach 20 tomorrow:eek::(

I'll have to find something to do in the house.

I've been reading tales of survival in Alaska from the 1920's; it helps to warm a guy up.:)
 
Man I hate the cold too. I do have a pot belly stove with a blower and can get it to 80 in my 800 sq. ft. shop. I burn some wood though. But that first 30 minutes is COLD. I feel that you gotta be comfortable when you work and if I got to go and cut more wood I will do it (but not until the spring, Got enough to get through the winter.) I REALLY dont see this global warming thing.
 
I think you have the right idea Dan. Low tonight is supposed to be 8. I've been thinking about a woodburner for the shop over the last few weeks, but I'll have to wait til spring. I guess it's something to look forward to while I'm out there freezing...
 
cheftothestars said:
Here in saskatchewan its -25C with wind chill -35 celcius
It gets down to -50 celcius here......I hate it!!!
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I'm finally getting used to the forty-below winters here (I'm originally from the Oregon coast). Just dress warm, don't use the car (it's better to walk), and expect high heating bills.

It is sad when it's too cold to go ice climbing, though. This cold snap caught everyone by surprise. It's starting to warm up though. It's only -27C right now; tomorrow it'll be warm enough to snow.
 
ya ever hear the expresion hell froze over. Well its -36 and going down lower when it hits -40 c thats the same as -40 f . That when I start singin its 40 below and I dont give a f _ _ _ got a heater in the truck and im off to the rodeo . lol kellyw
 
Nothing like having a bitter, snowy day and be bangin' away in the workshop with a t-shirt on. Forging rocks!
Grinding in the cold still sucks though. The little foot warmers you put inside your boot make a big difference, I think. If I can keep my feet warm I usually do ok.
 
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