10 degrees at 10 am!

[Lashlander]

Took these a couple weeks ago while I was waiting for it to get up to temp.

[tonka]

What a beautiful shot with the ship in the background!:drinkup

[Countryboy]

Great shots Lash! The lighting in the pictures really makes them stand out. :drinkup

[RonG]

I would not have thought anything of it if you had not mentioned the time.I would have just assumed it was early in the morning like it appears down here.Great pics!!Ron G

[HeyUvaVT]

Brrrrrrrrr awesome shots tho...lash has single handedly forced me to put alaska at the top of my "Places to see before I die" list!! :notworthy

[Squizzy246B]

10 degrees at 10 am!

and here it is (convert, convert)

...80 F at 5.30 am.......might get a little warmer today:(

[alan627b]

Try -2F at 7AM, 9F at 2:30 in the afternoon.....brrrrrrrrr. Glad the dozer wouldn't start this morning!
It could be worse, I could be in the arctic...
alan627b

[TSK415]

I don't mind the cold as much as freezing rain. It makes the climb (tower) a little tricky!

[cat 385]

great shot.

[TSK415]

Lashlander nice pics. Does it get light enough to work without artificial lights in the winter? Never been to Alaska.

[Lashlander]

Hey TSK415, Where I live we get down to around 4 or 5 hours of daylight. It varies. The further north you go the less daylight. On the North Slope the sun sets on the 18th of November and doesn't rise until the 23rd of January.

[qball]

X-that.lol. we hit freezing here today. i need to work in the tropics.

[Lashlander]

Ahh its not that bad. Here's a couple I took last night.

[Partsdude]

Great Pics!

I am so not looking forward to winter.

[95zIV]

There is nothing like those portable light towers when you just hafta work at night.

[qball]

when did you paint your boom white?:)

[Lashlander]

Ha Ha! That happened just last night too. I've painted all our Lattice Crane Booms light blue. Not a real big fan of the color but it makes them glow in the dark. Black Booms seem to eat the light.

[qball]

do not, i repeat, do not stick your tounge to the crane. trust me, i know!

[RonG]

What is being built there?I would have to save up courage to get out of the cab to go take a picture.LOL.
There is something about not having to go to work every day that just ruins your perception of your abilities.I used to work out in that weather as a matter of routine and think nothing of it but now I want to run and hide just thinking about it.
When I think about running some things in below zero*F with no heater and having to leave the windows open to see because your breath would frost up the windows on the inside I cannot believe that I did it.
I was plowing snow with a W20 Case one winter and the boss was too cheap to buy a heater motor for it so I want to a junk yard and found a 12 volt motor from a Ford heater and made an adapter for it on my lathe that would connect it to the squirrel cage blower on the Case heater and wired it all in at 12 volts using the original heater switch and I had heat!!Yah,I could still do it!!Ha........thanks for the great pics as usual.Ron G

[nedly05]

Great shots Lash! how much snow up there? my truck is all white this AM but I dont think it's gonna last, highs in the 40's here today.

[OCR]

do not, i repeat, do not stick your tounge to the crane. trust me, i know!

qball... I'd almost forgotten about the tongue thing on metal... :falldownlaugh

There seems to be an almost irresistible temptation to stick it on something frosty... :confused:

And... doesn't matter what it is... crane... loader boom/ bucket...pipe rail fence... outside door knob... door hinge... the list is endless...

They all taste the same too... don't they?... ;)

Like blood...... :lmao


OCR

[TSK415]

When I think about running some things in below zero*F with no heater and having to leave the windows open to see because your breath would frost up the windows on the inside I cannot believe that I did it.

You did that too? The one I liked was when somebody came up with the idea of feeding an extension cord through the turntable on my crawler and plugging a halogen light in at my feet for heat. It worked, kept the front window clear. After a time I ended up trying to untangle everything. Caught on everything!:duh

[TSK415]

Lashlander, how's the weather up there? It's been in the negatives one day, the next day rain and 40's.

[Lashlander]

It was raining but the last week it cleared up and has been a little chilly. Not bad, I think its getting down to +20 at night. Just barely a skiff of snow. Life is good!

[nedly05]

last week the AM temps were sub zero and we had 2+' on the ground, this weekend temps were close to 50, it poured the frost went out and the snow melted, felt just like early April. Weird weather this year so far!!

[Lashlander]

Hey Nedly05, That sorta thing has the potential to cause a lot of problems, like flooding and mud slides. Hope everything is good. Do you get those horrendous snows like Buffalo and places. What they call the Lake effect or something like that? I've got to where I hate the snow. I'd way rather have the rain.

[Feed Bunk]

Nice pics.

[Tugger]

Hi Lashlander
We are down the coast from you a ways in BC,but its cold here right now to.that 2inch polyrope is tough to deal with when its frozen around a bollard,do you ever get used to that?Your projects look very interesting.
Regards
Tugger

[BLASZER]

What model is that? Also......how do your clutches and brakes stay dry in that freezing rain?..I'm actually 15 miles south of buffalo...When the lake is too warm to freeze,,,Lake effect is a pain....When its cold enough for the lake to freeze....Snow aint so bad , but the cold sucks!! I'm actually on a job rebuilding Rt5 ...Along the watefront...IT IS COLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!With no obstructions on the lake, the wind speeds rally crank up! Steve