take another days drive south and those temps will be the lows for the year and everyone will have a warm coat on.

sjm said:

... Oddly enough, though it is further south than New York City, Louisville, where I'm heading on Friday for the Derby, is often significantly colder.

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I suspect that's because Louisville is farther from the Gulf Stream. I experienced -35F one winter when we lived near Syracuse -- a gift from Canada (15 Jan 1957). I enjoyed building snow forts/igloos and clearing ice from our sidewalk.

I don't live near Syracuse any more, and it looks like I won't build snow forts any time soon:


We have the Pacific Ocean as a temperature buffer here.

take a vacation down south. join me in the sunshine.

or get your own f- 250 gasser with a boss plow and do jobs for yourself. i got one for my driveway , any temp i start it from my house and let it warm up.
even -20 or so.

block heater will run off a 12v battery with a 2000 w inverter. but your salaried so tell them if they wont give you electric or a way to warm up then you cant plow that day. no one builds a shop where there is no electric available.

and you do run number 1 diesel in winter and power service to stop gelling or it isnt starting anyway.
but a 7.3 is made to start in the cold. thats what they are for.

what i used to use for a plane was a camp propane stove and run a flexible duct up into the engine area and let the heat go in that way and twenty minutes everything was up to temp. this way the battery gets some help as well.

my tractors usually had number 2 in them still so it gelled and with the heater they warm up and ran fine . gelling starts like at just below freezing with number 2 diesel.
cold weather is the shiits.

For what its worth I am a mechanic/welder of 17 years so I am well versed in work shops.

I sat through Chris Miller selling a Calcutta back in 2013?
I was chatting with Joey A and Gray Ghost at the time. It was amusing, as it was my first time seeing this. Robley and Bigtruck were also hanging out with us.