[AT] Winter storm and cold

[charlie hill]

When I was about 21 years old we had a bad snow and ice storm.
Not a lot of snow but a good bit of ice and it was really cold.  Well
as young men are want to do, my buddies and I wanted to go out for
the night.  Using the "wisdom" only three 20 something year olds can muster
we decided the safest thing to do was to drive my friend's dad's
40 something International Harvester 2 ton grain truck.   Tommy said
"that thing will go anywhere".  So we left our nice, heated cars at home
and headed out to a nearby town about 20 miles away in that old truck
with NO heater at all in it.  It was well below freezing and by our 
standards
really cold.  The three of us breathing inside that small cab caused
frost to form on the inside of the windshield.  That was a new one for me!
We made it there and back and from the safety of the inside of that grain 
body
along with a couple of girl friends we were able to hold off the whole town
of Grifton, NC in a snow ball fight at the local hamburger joint.  We
had our own supply of snow inside the body.  It was all good fun and we made 
it
back home with no frostbite.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Richard Fink Sr
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 5:26 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Winter storm and cold

Herb i can relate to the driveing 49 chevy in cold weather. I had a 50 ford
and it shifted about the same way was easy to drive in low for first 1/2
mile then shift other two. In central PA at 6 am it was 32 at 5 pm it is 10
but as Ralph said wind has slowed down a bit. But isure don,t want Ralphs
weather so Ralph close that barn door about half way. he he
R Fink
PA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Herb Metz" <metz-h.b at comcast.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 10:45 AM
Subject: [AT] Winter storm and cold


> Yes, I can remember feeding the cattle (daily) when we had a lot of cold,
> windy, Midwest weather and snow. Start 49 Chev pickup, keep it running,
> worry about breaking floor shift lever when shifting into low (some
> farmers
> changed to lighter weight trans oil during winter, Dad didn't do that),
> watch where you are driving because having chains on only reduced your
> chances of getting stuck in deeper snow, drive along silo, climb up silo
> steps (inside the chute), wind was blowing straight up that chute, stick
> silage fork into frozen silage, break it loose, no problem after first
> couple forks full, because silage was not frozen that thoroughly, throw
> silage down the chute and turn around immediately because wind would blow
> some of the silage back up the chute and through the open door and into
> your
> face. Keep repeating. Then drive out to feed bunks and unload and enjoy
> watching the cattle eat.
> Then go over to the cattle (water) tank and use axe to brake/cut ice in
> tank
> and pitchfork to remove larger ice chunks. Water tank heaters were
> relatively new and expensive and not always trouble-free.
> Only then could you appreciate what you were doing. We tend to forget that
> confined domesticated animals are certainly at our mercy.
> Herb(GA)
>
>
>>Forecast of -50 wind chill for tomorrow. Depends what you are doing how
>>bad a person feels it. I was working (pretty hard) with cattle this late
>>afternoon and was sweating. Came in this evening to see thermometer
>>showed -22F.
>>
>>
>>Ralph in Sask.
>
>
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