What have you done with/to your GC Series 2300, 2400, 1700 Tractor TODAY

[Dmacleo]

trust me...I have kept on top of it all. messed up wrist waiting on MRI and all that. what a friggin weekend amirite?
its 1345 now and its 2D F. thats our warm time for the day.

 

[GeneV]

I mean, we're Mainers, not bitches.

Ha! Yeh, I'm sure you guys handle yours, not your first rodeo. The wind certainly don't help tho.

 

[irvingj]

I generally don't need to run my wood stove for more than 6-7 hours at a time... but had it going for 30 hrs+ straight from Friday through yesterday evening. We hit -21.5 Sat AM, only got up to +1.5 around 1430 here.

Yes, the suddenness of it was hard; I've been in temps that low (and lower) before, and for extended periods of time (10 days+), but not immediately after a consistent run of temps around freezing!

Did you happen to see the story about the new record on Mt Washington? Apparently, the stratosphere is normally 4-12 MILES above the earth, but yesterday's polar vortex brought it down to around 4000 FEET in NH. Mt Washington, at 6288 ft, actually had its summit IN THE STRATOSPHERE yesterday. Winds over 100mph, temp around -48. Wind chill calculated to be -108F, apparently a new record. Guess that's why, at about 50 miles SE of Mt Washington and at 1500', we had those wicked winds and low temps all day.... It was just plain miserable outside.

 

[hube2]

I'm also at roughly 1500', got down to -23 Saturday morning. It's 28 now and suppose to go up to 38 today, a heat wave.

I'll be going out to today to clear out some drifts before they melt.

It's not too bad because the 35MPH winds combined with the wind direction blew most of the snow out of my driveway instead of in this time.

 

[daman1]

Off topic

 

[woody]

carried my old 1700 over to my son's house and scraped the gravel driveway smooth, finally gave up on the starter and ordered a new one got tired of jumping it with a screw driver and the starter was dragging anyway.

 

[Dmacleo]

I started the GC2400. looked at it. decided I don't wanna work today and shut it off. basking in the calm 23 deg weather. lot better than -19.5 with wind chills of -45

edit: ok I did use it to haul kerosene heater to neighbor to try to help thaw out frozen water line. then I lovingly petted it and filled it with fuel.

 

[GeneV]

Well I didn't build this, but check it out:

 

[hube2]

Had mine out on Sunday to clean up the drifts. Looks like it's going to get another extended break with another long thaw. Doesn't break my heart.

 

[Langanobob]

Cleared the snow from around the neighborhood fire hydrant.