Bota at -8 degrees

[LateBloomer]

Cisco, I have only been here about a 1.5 years and make no claim to being acclimated that well. Since you are from the interior you know how moderate our weather here is in the banana belt known as the Valley. I know South Carolina well, my wife is from Orangeburg and I trained in Charleston. My idea of good fishing was a few crappie and bream or a 4-5 pound bass. When I hooked my first coho up here I knew my fishing days in Santee were over. Have not tried Brandy yet for the cold. I have however learned to put my beer outside in the snow to keep it from freezing. Check out my Bota today after I finished moving some snow, should remind you of the good old days in the last frontier.

 

[frank_f15]

NOV. 27 and its -8 deg.? good luck! at those temps you might want to go to a block heater.

 

[BBELL]

What are you running for engine oil in this type of temp?

 

[BBELL]

oh sorry, I just finished reading those hole post

 

[5030]

Late Bloomer:

You NEED A CAB TRACTOR!!!

You make me feel cold and I am in the warm house.

Nothing like a warm cab for doing snow chores and Paul Harvey on the am-fm. Like Paul says--"That's the rest of the story"!!

 

[r0GuE]

Being cold irritates me,... living where it is dark at 5PM (Pittsburgh PA) irritates me... If I were you, I would probably kill the dealer that sold you a tractor in Alaska without a block heater. I have a shed and still think I need one. I would also like a cab, but that is overkill for me (If I had more $$ I would probably feel differently).

I'm glad to have you on board at TBN! I have always ben facinated by Alaska and it looks like you are a Pic freindly person.

By the way, when you said your wifes car was in the garage, does that mean that it is your expedition in the cold!!! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[Junkman]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( By the way, when you said your wifes car was in the garage, does that mean that it is your expedition in the cold!!! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif )</font>

His wifes car might be a dog sled with 14 Huskies to pull it and they want to keep warm when not working??????? /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[5030]

Junkman:

Back in the days when I owned my own tractor trailers and before electronic engine controls like electronic timing advance, I use to eithr keep my Freightliners plugged in or I'd have to take a charcoal grill (the cheap round ones with the short legs), fill it with charcoal, light it and place it under the oil pan for a few hours to warm the engine enough to get it started.

You'd have to drape tarps over the engine to the ground to keep the wind away. That was truck'in at it's finest.

Nowdays, you just turn the key. No matter how cold it is, 2 turns and the engine will fire up. New diesels (class 8) start better than gasoline engines.

 

[Junkman]

Daryl

I remember those days well. My 1955 Chevrolet didn't like to start when the temperature got below 0. I learned that when I lived in NH back in 1962. Had the car towed to the local gas station about 12 miles away. They put a shovel full of hot coals under the oil pan for about 1/2 hour and it started. That was right about the time that you could hear the oil start to make popping sounds..... Replaced that car with a Corvair that would always start no matter how cold it was, but just couldn't get it to shift from first to second until you drove a long enough distance to warm the transmission oil. Live is a constant trade off.....

 

[lamarbur]

"life is a constant trade off" you could always get one of those "unusual gifts from the other half" you know, like having you put to sleep or something )

 

[frank_f15]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Replaced that car with a Corvair )</font>

sorry other than u and me and a few others ain;t going to be many that remember the corvair /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[BIGUN]

I got a used ’63 Corvair in 1970. It was my first and worst car. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Egon]

Oh I think I remember it. Ralph Nader sure had a go at it.

Egon

 

[Hoosier_Daddy]

AH Yes, the Corvair. Said to be the most unsafe car on the road at the time. As kids we didn't consider that a problem.

Then came the Pinto years later. I was a little older then and it was a car on the road to avoid.

I have my 69 Mach I which I have had since 70 and I think it has a drop in tank like the Pinto's did.

Life is definately a trade off.

Tom

 

[Old_Hickory]

Living in Alaska would make me want to consider getting a cab for my tractor. /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

Here is an unorthodox way I have used to start engines on very cold days(and it works great). IE: I had a 8 hp Tecumseh powered log splitter that set outside and an old Beaver III 16.5 diesel that set outside as well.On cold days in the single digits/teens the old wood splitter was a bear to pull the rope on and get started,the tractor would not start,here is what I done to get them started.
Fill 3 or 4 five gallon buckets full of hot tap water and have them filled and setting next to the log splitter or tractor and pour the water over the engine 2 to 3 buckets full and then immediately proceed to start the engines,it never failed to start the engines or cause me any other problems,go ahead and laugh but it worked for me and I would not hesitate to do it on my JD4400. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[kokopelli2]

couldnt that crack the block?

 

[Junkman]

The one problem that I see immediately is that if it doesn't start, then you have one big block of ice and no reasonable amount of additional hot water is going to thaw anything until spring when it all thaws.

 

[5030]

Junkman:

Here we go, about to embark on a trip down "nostalgia road". Just like my post on Triumph Motorcycles......

I had a buddy that I used to ride to high school with. He had a 1964 Corvair Monza with a Stewart Warner Gas heater. The Corvair was like a Volkswagen in as much as the heater was hot air off the manifolds (I believe). The gas heater worked pretty well, but on occasion would backfire and throw a flame out the outlet. It made for some interesting rides on winter mornings.

 

[Old_Hickory]

The engine block has never cracked and as far as the block of ice forming it all runs off of the engine and onto the ground immediately,you will not have a big block of ice.You might have some ice on the ground. This method warms things up enough the engine turns easier and when pulling the rope on the 8 HP engine it pulls a lot easier
It works for me and I would not hesitate to do it again.

 

[falconry]

Here's a guy's backhoe. He's off of the plowsite.com forum. Great place!

Blake
WA