Weather observation

rrman61

Well-known Member
Bet a lot of people in the northern part of the country dont understand the big deal with the winter weather conditions we had the last few days in the south.thats ok because a lot of people in the south dont see the big deal when a minimal hurricane hits the northeast.
 
We all get accustomed to what is normal in our back yard.

When things arent normal, nothing works right, what we built doesnt work, and things fall apart.

I bought a little chain saw back in the 80s, read the manual and they said use such and such oil, or in extreme cold (below 32f) use such and such.

Extreme cold? I live in Minnesota, summer is for working farm stuff, winter is for cutting wood. What fool uses a chainsaw when it is above 32 degrees? Just makes a person smile is all.

Paul
 
I take the necessary precautions no matter the weather conditions,but some people rely way too much on our infrastructure then get in a bind when it shuts down for any length of time
 
I would say the attitude is about the same as you southerners trying to figure out why folks are dying up here when the temp hits a moderate 100 deg.
 
(quoted from post at 17:45:17 02/20/21) Bet a lot of people in the northern part of the country dont understand the big deal with the winter weather conditions we had the last few days in the south.thats ok because a lot of people in the south dont see the big deal when a minimal hurricane hits the northeast.

Nope, not the same.
The damage of a hurricane is generally to a very small area.
Not a state or multi state area wide problem.
Not even if it hits little ole Massachusetts.
And when the power goes out people are not freezing to death or dying because they caused a fire trying to keep warm.
 
We cut wood all last summer. I was "working" from home and my neighbor was clearing a woods so we cut a few days that was in the 90s

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You can tell by the wet shirts how hot it was. My dad is on the right, he's 75 and like to.works us in the ground
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Live in the Midwest and experience all of it,sometimes in the same week! Old saying if you don't like the indiana weather just wait a day!
 
I always tell Loren that, winter is for cutting wood. Nobody with any sense cuts wood when it's warm out.
 
Yep. I remember helping my local model train club set up at State Fair Park in Milwaukee when I was younger. The show is always held the second week of November. A couple of times we went down in a heavy thunderstorm on Friday to get ready & pack up on Sunday in the snow. That's the fun of living in Wisconsin. The weather never gets old.

Mike
 
Depends;some hurricanes are compact with hurricane force winds 50 miles from the center.some
have hurricane force winds over a hundred miles from the center with tropical storm force winds
much more than that..
 
(quoted from post at 17:01:17 02/20/21) I would say the attitude is about the same as you southerners trying to figure out why folks are dying up here when the temp hits a moderate 100 deg.
Or wonder how we and our livestock survive our spells of -30F and worse weather. Its not so big a deal if you are used to it but if its a once in a lifetime event, theres no way to be really prepared.
 
If one person's house is hit with a tornado no big deal. If subdivision is damaged it'll make national headlines.
How many houses and people have to die before it becomes a disaster?

For that one person it's a disaster. Sorry he doesn't get help from FEMA.
George
 
No way I would live in Indiana without a loader and dump trailer.
In 2011 we had 90 mph straight lines winds. It looked like a war zone. I used terramite and dump trailer to load and haul 25 loades of branches to a place that ground them to make wood mulch. My insurance paid to remove the trees on houses and garages. I had to clean up the trees that missed the building.
You are right just wait weather will change.
George
 
We are all surely different. I'm not cutting limbs/trees if its below 32 unless I have to. In fact I dont do much outside if temperature is below 32. I constantly wonder how people work in conditions like that. Hurricanes, tornadoes, and hot weather are just part of life. Funny how we have different perspectives.
 
We get high temps, low temps and tornados.
One thing Minnesota doesnt get is earthquakes. I read somewhere, long ago that MN sits on a big slab of granite about 50? miles thick. That makes it one of the Least earthquake prone areas on the planet.
 
I always like to cut wood from Oct. till the snow gets too deep. No bugs, dont get all sweated up and sometimes the ground freezes and you can get around good. Early spring is good too if you didnt get enough done in fall unless it gets too muddy.
 
Grandpa always used to say that firewood warms you twice, once when you cut it and again when you burn it. I cut up a fallen tree a couple years ago during the summer and thought I was going to die I was sweating so bad.
 
(quoted from post at 17:45:17 02/20/21) Bet a lot of people in the northern part of the country dont understand the big deal with the winter weather conditions we had the last few days in the south.thats ok because a lot of people in the south dont see the big deal when a minimal hurricane hits the northeast.

I don't see it quite that way. I get not being prepped for snow and ice. But no one seems to have a generator or alternative heat source, much less any way to get water. That to me is puzzling.
 
We had an earthquake back in the eighties or ninety's. The bottles clinked together in the local bar. Most people didn't know what happened until someone from the west called the radio station & said Yes that was an earthquake.
 
Personally, I don't mind doing this work in the warmer months, really depends on the weather, mainly the humidity. Clear days when the jet stream dips down from the north are usually great days for this kind of work, from felling to splitting. I have in the past, done quite a bit during the warmer months so the wood has some decent dry time.

This year, I hauled up 4 cord of dead elm mid fall, recently dead and or dying trees I cut the year before and landed on the slab of the old barn down below. Much of it was 20"-24" diameter. I had it blocked up immediately and kept it covered when needed. Dried ok, but handling the big stuff in cooler temps, probably beneficial, but it did not dry down the best. Much of this wood was not punked, so the un-altered elm wood is more work to split depending on the grain of the wood. I load up a big gardenway cart(s), to bring into the heated garage, then transfer to Jackson M11 wheel barrow, which gets parked by the stove in the back.

It dries down more and from the last clean out of the chimney, seems I did get a small amount of creosote, which was easily burned off in a hot cycle of the stove. I found a small amount of light popcorn creosote remnants. Better version of the same stove I have used, just about air tight, does not burn as hot with no air leaks, + some moisture in the wood, changed the conditions a little.

Now, had I cut this wood in the summer, definitely would have dried better, but once the fire is hot, coal bed good, I can still keep the flue temp hot with little smoke. All seemed to all work out so far this year, only 192 gallons of oil since the end of November, house is almost 3000 sq ft. Long winded diatribe, but cutting in the warmer months is still better if it has to be burned that season, otherwise, if it's 25 F to 30 F, calm, great weather for dealing with firewood, will dry all summer for the following season.
 
Thats why I fill the tub with water ahead of time to flush with and 5 gallon containers for drinking
and cooking.a gas stove is not optimum for heating but will do in an emergency but I have a
generator to use first
 

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