You know it is cold on the farm when...

[orezok]

It's so miserably cold out here in the Mojave that it's only going to be 70 today. . Gonna hafta wear a second jacket.

OK, you can get back at me when it hits 120 in August!

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

Yup,
"when the hickories snap and the birches bow."

On the plus side we're supposed to see double positive digits here tomorrow. I'm pretty excited about that.

 

[Thomas]

Thomas - around here if you hear that "tree cracking sound" - best you be under cover. Something is going to be a fallin. So cold here once - a couple of trees near the house snapped near their tops and crashed to the ground. No idea what was going on but it was around -20F at the time.

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Does indeed real waker upper in the middle of the night. :shocked:

 

[2LaneCruzer]

When the maple syrup starts to freeze. View attachment 534194

I recall this same discussion several years ago; one of the group had been in the service in Alaska. He said it got so cold where he was, that antifreeze cans left outdoors would freeze up and burst. If there was a medal for the biggest BSer, he would have gotten it.

 

[ruffdog]

When the trees start cracking sounds like shot gun going off.

When your joints start sounding (and feeling) like a ice maker.

 

[oosik]

I don't know TwoLane - when we lived in Ak there were two weather reporting sites in Fairbanks. The airport and Elision AFB. Many was the time when Elision would report temps in the -50's. I don't think a jug of premix could withstand those temps. On the average most premix is good down to around -35F. Below that it starts to slush up and freeze solid pretty fast. There is no data on a jug of full strength - its never used that way.

 

[mike69440]

It was not windy so it did not feel so bad. Wind chill gets you.

 

[k0ua]

Pure ethylene glycol freezes at about 8 degrees F. With the other additives that are in "antifreeze" it will freeze somewhere from about 0 F to -10F. Mixed properly with water the freezing point will go down to almost -49F I totally believe cans of antifreeze being frozen solid. NO BS.

 

[ovrszd]

When the trees start cracking sounds like shot gun going off.

I've heard that. Really hard on trees.....

 

[bunyip]

Hard on those underneath too, we get the same thing but on extremely hot days, almighty crack and off comes a big limb from up high, the koalas do not enjoy the ride down either.