To anyone here who lives in the cold...
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It was -12F when I was outside at 3am this morning. Had a foot of snow fall the past 2 days, and early this morning the heater in the house stopped working: it would cycle-on/off but never fully fire up.
I went outside and cleared off all the snow on the propane tank, and rigged up a low-wattage light bulb in the "control valve" area on top of the tank, and within a few minutes, whatever was frozen thawed enough to allow the gas to fully flow, and house heater finally started to work.
It got down to -16F earlier this morning, but the high today is a toasty 13F (with -26F wind chill). I'm going to keep the light bulb going until I can get hold of the propane company - doubt they can get out here before next week.
I went outside and cleared off all the snow on the propane tank, and rigged up a low-wattage light bulb in the "control valve" area on top of the tank, and within a few minutes, whatever was frozen thawed enough to allow the gas to fully flow, and house heater finally started to work.
It got down to -16F earlier this morning, but the high today is a toasty 13F (with -26F wind chill). I'm going to keep the light bulb going until I can get hold of the propane company - doubt they can get out here before next week.
Last edited by jmmec; Feb 3, 2011 at 09:41 AM.
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From: south western NYS Latitude: 42.34 N, Longitude: 78.46 W
Lets see my day started with the wife getting stuck in the drainage ditch because she was taking a drink of her coffee while turning around in the driveway (go figure). Then i had to plow so i get in begin plowing and i run over a big azz chunk of ice and rip a hole in the drivers side rear snow tire and instant flat. Turn around drive back up hill to barn (1000 ft) now tire is off rim, get out jack but it is frozen and hyd won't work, heat up jack with torch, torch runs out of propane install new tank (very cold tank) now compressor will not fire up because it is to cold so after many many coaxing's and on and off with the switch it fires, then snap on impact wrench frozen and will not work properly... get breaker bar and remove tire by hand (i needed to warmup anyway), go to town 2 miles away get new tire (spare was under truck and frozen in place until may) reinstall new tire and then finish plowing and came to work oh and it was a balmy -8 at the time and wind was blowing at 30+... MAN i need a HUG bad!!!!! any takers... ;-)
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Most people are just wimps lol. Trying work outside for 14 hours, when its -15F and a 20mph. Last night my truck said it was -22F, but by this weekend its going to be in the mid 30's tee shirt weather lol.
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Lets see my day started with the wife getting stuck in the drainage ditch because she was taking a drink of her coffee while turning around in the driveway (go figure). Then i had to plow so i get in begin plowing and i run over a big azz chunk of ice and rip a hole in the drivers side rear snow tire and instant flat. Turn around drive back up hill to barn (1000 ft) now tire is off rim, get out jack but it is frozen and hyd won't work, heat up jack with torch, torch runs out of propane install new tank (very cold tank) now compressor will not fire up because it is to cold so after many many coaxing's and on and off with the switch it fires, then snap on impact wrench frozen and will not work properly... get breaker bar and remove tire by hand (i needed to warmup anyway), go to town 2 miles away get new tire (spare was under truck and frozen in place until may) reinstall new tire and then finish plowing and came to work oh and it was a balmy -8 at the time and wind was blowing at 30+... MAN i need a HUG bad!!!!! any takers... ;-)
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Lets see my day started with the wife getting stuck in the drainage ditch because she was taking a drink of her coffee while turning around in the driveway (go figure). Then i had to plow so i get in begin plowing and i run over a big azz chunk of ice and rip a hole in the drivers side rear snow tire and instant flat. Turn around drive back up hill to barn (1000 ft) now tire is off rim, get out jack but it is frozen and hyd won't work, heat up jack with torch, torch runs out of propane install new tank (very cold tank) now compressor will not fire up because it is to cold so after many many coaxing's and on and off with the switch it fires, then snap on impact wrench frozen and will not work properly... get breaker bar and remove tire by hand (i needed to warmup anyway), go to town 2 miles away get new tire (spare was under truck and frozen in place until may) reinstall new tire and then finish plowing and came to work oh and it was a balmy -8 at the time and wind was blowing at 30+... MAN i need a HUG bad!!!!! any takers... ;-)
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From: Williston, North Dakota
last week I arrived at my jobsite and checked the temp guage and it read -52 that wasnt factoring in the wind which happened to be blowin about 20 and this was just a couples hours from minot
