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Out And About at -30

rusty6

rusty6

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Second record breaking cold day in Sask. Some places saw -40 or worse but it was only -38F here this morning. Warmed up to -12F or so this afternoon so I finally ventured out to town for mail and a few supplies. Shot some video this morning while out walking around the yard and pasture. Only -30F but with the chest mount camera I was able to keep my mitts on and work hands free.
Sunny and Cool
 
(quoted from post at 19:52:42 02/08/19) How do you treat the Diesel?
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There are various additives can be mixed into summer diesel so it can be burned in winter. I've bought the John Deere product and it worked well. Lately get some product from the Co-op called Polar Max. I mix it up in a barrel just like I used to with 2 stroke snowmobile fuel for small amounts. But then I fill up my truck service tank with "real" winter diesel to add to the tractors just to be safe. Any fuel we buy at this time of year will be winter diesel that we don't have to worry about mixing any "thinners" into. I've never had a gelled fuel problem yet.
 
So nice. Thank you. A Friday evening video show while enjoying my bowl of popcorn. Some questions came to mind. How high is the "thresher hill" with respect to your farm yard? How do you connect to the internet? Via a "dish" I assume. You mentioned mail "in town". Do you not have rural mail delivery? About -12 F here in Southernn MN at 8 AM today and about -2 F now at 9 PM. I remember some days of -40s F in ND during the late 1940s. Thanks again for sharing your adventures.
 
we don't treat the diesel with anything. its a winter blend and that's it. im in Alberta and rusty is in Saskatchewan to the east of me, same weather.
 
(quoted from post at 20:24:48 02/08/19) we don't treat the diesel with anything. its a winter blend and that's it. im in Alberta and rusty is in Saskatchewan to the east of me, same weather.
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Yes, that is the surest and safest way to go. But if you get caught in late fall with summer diesel in the tractors I like to do a mix with the thinner with what fuel is in the tractor tank. Then add some real winter diesel on the next fill up. So far, so good.
 
(quoted from post at 20:24:10 02/08/19) So nice. Thank you. A Friday evening video show while enjoying my bowl of popcorn. Some questions came to mind. How high is the "thresher hill" with respect to your farm yard? How do you connect to the internet? Via a "dish" I assume. You mentioned mail "in town". Do you not have rural mail delivery? About -12 F here in Southernn MN at 8 AM today and about -2 F now at 9 PM. I remember some days of -40s F in ND during the late 1940s. Thanks again for sharing your adventures.
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Thanks Ron. Its not much of a "hill" by some standards. Gradual climb from the yard and then it drops off sharply to the North-Northwest. We are about 2100 feet above sea level here.
Internet is wireless here and my laptop picks it up off the cell tower through a USB internet "stick". Not as fast as fibre optics but pretty darn good. No rural mail delivery here. Its a 25 mile round trip to clean out the junk mail from the box.
 

-30 is record setting? I thought Sask was a lot colder than that. We see -40 pretty much every winter here.
 
(quoted from post at 07:51:17 02/09/19)
-30 is record setting? I thought Sask was a lot colder than that. We see -40 pretty much every winter here.
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No, you missed the line at the beginning where I said it had been -38F at sunup. Other parts of the province were -40 and lower. Weather statistics claimed we broke record lows those two consecutive days. I've seen close to -50 back in the early 1980s.
 
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