Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
[Re: Pete in Frbks]
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11/11/20 08:02 AM
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-30 to -40 wind chill guiding hunters is the coldest I can remember. You southern people crack me up!
Pete I’m sure we do but don’t laugh to much until you have pulled a well in the middle of a corn field in June or July down here. Air temp was 113 not sure what the heat index was and didn’t care. lol
Everything the left touches it destroys
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Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
[Re: dkrug]
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11/11/20 08:11 AM
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Me and a buddy tipped a canoe and got dumped into an icy beaver pond. There was a quarter-inch of ice on the surface that had formed overnight and we were using the canoe as an icebreaker to check our traps (dumb, I know).
We were able to get to shallow water and get the canoe righted and then back to shore. I had hip boots on that filled with water. My legs went completely numb, like walking on two wooden stumps.
Eh...wot?
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Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
[Re: dkrug]
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11/11/20 08:16 AM
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the Blak Spot
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-30 with a -60 wind chill. That was in Kansas sometime in the 80's
the just shall live by faith
member FTA, ATA, EAFT 1776 - the year we told a tyrant we weren't to be under a dictator Caveat ater macula
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Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
[Re: dkrug]
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11/11/20 09:59 AM
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Allan Minear
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A customer of mine called and asked that I come out and fix the water well in the bull pasture if I remember correctly it was around -45 with out wind chill added . Thankfully I only had to break loose 3 joints of pipe with two 24" offset pipe wrenches, when the water started spraying all over it would hit my coat and fall off because it was already frozen . I went through 24 pairs of cotton chore gloves in a hurry !
The winter of 1968 -69 in Wolf Point was brutally cold also when it warmed up to zero people were running around in tee shirts because it was to warm out compared to what it had been ! There was many days around -40 / -60 without wind chill Allan
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Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
[Re: white17]
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11/11/20 09:59 AM
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January 27 1989. The thermometer read minus 82 F We had several days right around that temperature but that was the lowest. Folks who had oil heat were SOL because the oil would not flow. They had to move in with families who heated with wood.
One guy tried to remove the felt filter from his oil line. Lost all his fingers in less than two minutes
No incoming air freight or mail because it was too cold to fly. They even closed the school
Only one vehicle in town would run and the owner kept it going for 12 days.
I think Paul was in Fairbanks at that time. Pete too probably
It was darned inconvenient ! You win. Coldest I've seen is -45 F straight temp. Visiting Cass Lake Mn. Coldest I've played outside in is -30 F straight temp. Ice Fishing north of Sudbury, ONT
Erik Johnson
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Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
[Re: dkrug]
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11/11/20 10:05 AM
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You know it’s cold when you drill a hole ..for ice fishing....and steam comes out..
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
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Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
[Re: dkrug]
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11/11/20 10:39 AM
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danny clifton
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The coldest I have ever been was a winter camping trip in boyscouts. Went to Lake George CO. Scouts have an acreage there. My sleeping bag on that trip was a WWII army surplus mummy bag with feathers in it. I slept on the floor of a tent. It was hours before sunup when me and several others built a fire and sat around it waiting for morning. I don't know what the temperature was but it was bad cold. I don't think anybody slept much that night.
Got cold enough a few years ago on a trapping adventure to WY the cooking oil froze. Pickup battery was dead. Had to push start it. I have peeled frozen eggs to thaw in a skillet many times but only had cooking oil freeze that one time. I slept fine. Learned back in those boy scout days that you need a warm sleeping system. When I got up it was a bit chilly though.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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