Ford 3910, John Deere 420C, Kubota G32XKS, IH 2606, Bad Boy Maverick-60"
Down here 20 degrees is bitter cold. We're under a Winter Storm Watch right now. It's 36F now and dropping. The "wind chill" is expected to be in the teens. That's dang cold for this part of the U.S. Driving up I-35 to the big city last Saturday, I saw most of the farmers already had fields plowed/disked and ready for planting. Some may have already planted.
I'm still trying to mow grass but it's been too wet. This freeze should take care of it.
Still sells, doesnt it?
I’ll never forget we were building a construction project (townhomes) and we built all the decks on the back with circular stairways down to the ground because of property line setbacks. The circular staircase supplier sends their saleswoman out to sell us on their design, quality and pricing. Shows up dressed like the weather gal above, but even more “appealing”. Guys on the job site are falling, dropping stuff, walking into walls. Lol
The owner of the company calls me that evening to give me the hard sell on the staircases. The staircases were excellent quality and would have sold no matter who the salesperson was. I commented to him something to the affect “thats some salesperson you have there…..very good at selling”.
We bought their circular stairs contract.
”works everytime” he said. “She’s my closer”
We are up to 10 degrees now this morning and sunny. But the wind is 14 MPH, so FELLS LIKE -5 degrees. It is pretty cold for us, still have a skiff of snow on the ground, but some of it has sublimed.
In my findings, weather folks can do a lot of things, but predicting the weather is not one of them. At least not with any great accuracy very far into the future.
Ok, for those that don't spend any time outside. It's useful to know what the "wind chill" is as it give an indication of how fast things will cool down. Your body and machinery. Now im old enough to remember before wind chill was reported so us "old" people learned to look outside and if the snow is blowing sideways, it's going to be colder than a witches...
Canadians are weird and march to their own drums. Whenever I start ragging on Canadians for their ass backwards way of thinking...I'm reminded with this...