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Coldest place?

tomstractorsandtoys

tomstractorsandtoys

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We had a conversation yesterday after church about the coldest places. We came up with the North Pole, a skid loader without a cab and anything to do with a silo. Anybody have something to add to the list? LOL Tom
 
The cemetery in the winter time.

Nothing colder than going out to the cemetery for the burial at a funeral in the winter time. Especially if there is snow on the ground, and the north wind is blowing. Tent or no tent, that is just COLD!!!

Might have something to do with wearing nice clothes for the funeral, and not bundled up as good as you should be. I don't think they even make dressy coveralls, or dress coats that are warm enough to really be out in the weather in.

Have been out in colder places than that. But I was more appropriately dressed for it.
 
Doing a blue nose run on a sub back in the late 70s and standing a top side watch from 1200AM to 0400am in Holy Lock Scotland. The 3 of us on watch, watched the mountains around the Lock turn white as the top side of the sub got covered with ice
 
Finding keys in the 14 inches of snow. Then after not finding them, finding them in the Carhartt's pocket! Jim
 
2 of my kids live in Grande Prairie Alberta (north of Edmonton a ways). They had -53 C a few days ago. - 40 F and -40 C are the same so, freakin' cold !
 
Yup, I'm pretty sure the closest I came to freezing was at a funeral. Cold front blew in and the rented preacher thought we could all be saved that afternoon if only he could talk long enough. Most likely the most time the deceased had ever been at a service.
 
Picking up a drill string on a non closed in drill floor on a rig in the winter time with a gale blowing approximately 50 mph. Dont even think about touching your tongue to metal. It wouldnt be pretty. We were treated very well. Most rigs had closed in rig floors. Best food and living accommodations. Some major operators even had live entertainment such as bands on the weekends. Was paid extra well for the conditions we endured outside of the living quarters. Wingnut
 
Repairing the chain on the end of a stable cleaner, 20 feet up in the air in a raging blizzard, dragging torches up the chute since the nuts on the pintle chain were all rounded off. The dairy cow manure was stored in a building and would remain semi liquid around the stack. Had a 2 year old heifer jump in and was in manure up to her neck. I crawled/swam ii up to her, managed to get a halter on her and pulled her out carefully with the tractor. We were both shivering with hypothermia, being soaked to the skin with freezing manure. Turned the warm water hose from the milk house on both of us...she could stand after 15 minutes or so, but eventually managed to stumble into the warmth of the barn. Close call for both of us.....
Ben
 
When I was a kid mom and dad drug (dragged for you non southerners) us kids to the local NFL football games.
At the time we did not have the dome and they played in an open stadium.
I would see people from Mn or Wis freezing watching the game.
Temperature might be 30 and they dresses like they did back home when it was 30.
They found out real quick 30 in a city surrounded by water is a lot differant than 30 in mid America.
 
I think it works for tractors also.
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According to Mark Twain, The coldest winter he ever experienced was a summer in San Francisco. Ive been there in the summer time. He is right.
 
I would have to say working on a silo unloader at -30 is the coldest place to be next to moving the silage back in a feeder wagon below the silo chute...no silo room.
 
It was so cold and windy at my mom's funeral, we wore long johns under our suit pants. Preacher gathered the crowd on the east side of a big cedar, said a 2 minute prayer. That was that.
 
In 1995, I moved to Finland and worked that winter with a dog sledding outfit that gave sled trips to tourists. I went from SE Texas to just south of the Arctic Circle. What winter clothing I was able to buy locally before I left did not offer a whole lot in the way of extreme protection.

Then in 1998, I moved (permanently) from SE Texas to Minnesnowta. And once we moved where we are now, we had this one horrendously cold weather event that happened to a small area one very cold night. Most areas around us had lows in upper -20's to mid -30'sF. We were in that extreme zone where some upper level air was somehow being funneled to ground level. Coldest I saw on the gauge was -50.6F. And of course, I just HAD to go outside just to experience that kind of cold once in my life. And let me tell you, once was enough! *lol*
 
When attending college in upstate NY we
had some nights -41 or -42. I had to walk
to class because my truck only grunted
with two batteries at that temperature.
Walking early wasn't bad but later, after
the wind started, it was cold. Some days
when it was warmer my truck would start
but the standard transmission was so
stiff you could barely shift, so I would
put the transfer case in neutral and let
the tranny warm up, then when you went
down the road and tried to shift the
truck would stop because the
differentials were so cold.
 
Broken unloader chain in a manure spreader that's full and frozen.
This was a ground driven manure spreader, so not many options.
 
I'm in Texas so minus temperatures is pretty unheard of. The inside of my house is 45 degrees every morning when I get up until I get the wood stove going again. That's chill enough for me.
 
Apparently my well house would be in the running. Been frozen solid since Friday night when the power went off.
 
Below ground pump house for an LNG storage tank. The heavily insulated pipe would have ice on it in the summer when pumping. Liquid gas was stored at -265 degrees. Knocked off a wrench that was sitting on the pump and it broke into several pieces.
 
In Jan of 1977 I had just turned 21. A couple days after I turned 21 I did that top side watch with 2 other crew men. I was the highest ranking so I went in last which cause me a problem but the V.A says it didn't happen so now my right knee and right shoulder are messed up but they don't and will not believe me. Had O known what I do now back in say May of 1980 I would have made sure they knew about my should and knee problems plus some other things
 
cant decide between a truck gelled up in western wyoming dead in winter or milking cows in below 0 weather. anytime below 0 hits its just too cold
 
Getting a B-52 off the ground at -43 below, air starter hose latch frozen. Hooked 4 in. starter hose to #3 engine then it made its own air. pilot was ansy wanting to get going, I was on headset to him told him latch was frozen, also I was about frozen, seemed like forever but finally came off. I have been cold ever since and that was 1963
 
Tag man in a salt ship for the crane operator.Tag man had to direct the operator just where to drop the clamshell bucket.Years ago it was done with a ribbon on a long stick,while an Oliver crawler pushed the salt to the ideal place under the opening for the bucket to drop.It's not that cold degree wise,but you are standing in the bottom of the ship in this cloying,sickening cocoon of unrelenting damp cold.
 
Been watching utube videos on life in Yakutsk. They don't call off school until it's like -50. Heat with wood 9 months out of the year, melt harvested ice for fresh water. A different breed of people living there.
 
No I might have stood 2 maybe 3 in the 3 tours I did on it. Did you know when out to sea the sub crews lived an 18 hour day. 6 hours on 12 off and you rotated that way for the full 90 days you where out and under the water
 
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