New snow

[Hay Dude]

Sure does look purty out there by you, Haydude.

Love it here. Just the right blend of rural and suburbs.
Hope it stays that way…..

 

[Yogi05]

Mother nature wasn't happy with the snow arrangement. Currently in near whiteout conditions, wind gusts to 45 mph, -20c temp relates to windchill of -34. Should blow over by tonight. Much more plowing tomorrow. Travel not recommended by highway dept.

Our snow stopped. One day dump (Monday).
A few flurries since, which is about 2 inches at a time.
Holy, is it cold this week.
-20F and-34f wind chill. And I just started a new job and
most of it is outside. What a week to do that! Way too old for outdoors.

 

[SylvainG]

Got about 40cm at the cottage on Monday/Tuesday. Had to walk from the road to the cottage, fun stuff. It was -32C yesterday evening when we got in. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to start the tractor, but it did after some coaxing. The engine block warmer that I started 1h30m earlier probably helped. Cleared almost everything until I broke the shear bolt because of a stupid mistake. It was -35C this morning and the tractor didn't want to start. Engine block warmer did its best but it was too cold for the battery. In early afternoon, it 'warmed up' to -20C and was able to start it up to finish the job.

 

[Torvy]

Here in SE Wi only a couple inches so far this year. Rare to get so little. I visited relatives several yrs ago, about this time of year, in Watertown NY. I was warned about the lake effect snow that they get. We ended up following two plows clearing the interstate the last 10mi. They would tag team that 10mi, two up, two down, turn around, repeat. That night every truck, tractor, and excavation eq that could be fitted with a plow was out. By morning 48" was gone and it was business as usual.

Moved here from Waukesha. Our first winter there (2000) we got 55" in December alone. Average annual there is only 42". Where I grew up the annual average was a little over 37". I was a little concerned that the 55" in one month was normal. Turns out that was most of the snow we got all winter.

 

[Gordon Gould]

We're well over a foot behind on average snow fall right now. But with the weather finally turning cold it's a pleasure to be plowing the little we get on solidly frozen ground.

gg

 

[metalbender]

This snow clearing is becoming a daily routine. Had a few inches overnight. If I don't get at it, bad things happen.

 

[coupman35]

Well we are get some more today 5-10cm looks like never going to stop And when it stops we cold drop to -35 at night .The snow pusher getting used a lot it the best thing i ever got love it.

 

[Thomas]

We're well over a foot behind on average snow fall right now. But with the weather finally turning cold it's a pleasure to be plowing the little we get on solidly frozen ground.

gg

Also getting around in the woods with out making deep ruts or finding mud holes.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Also getting around in the woods with out making deep ruts or finding mud holes.

Yes ! That's definitely another good thing about the cold and little snow.

gg

 

[Yogi05]

I could do a little clean up. Plow deposit at the end of the driveway etc. but tractor power wouldn't start yesterday.
I had one of those magnet block heaters plugged in for 8 hrs. It turned better but not fast enough to start.
It's been 30 hrs now and I'm about to give it another try before running some errands.
A battery warmer may be in my future but as I'm running almost 200 ft of extension cord I'm reluctant
to plug a 300w block heater AND a warmer on the one cord. I have no idea if it's a bad idea or not.

 

[metalbender]

For a long run of extension cord, 12 ga will carry the load quite well. My battery warmer is only 40 watts.

 

[civilian]

I could do a little clean up. Plow deposit at the end of the driveway etc. but tractor power wouldn't start yesterday.
I had one of those magnet block heaters plugged in for 8 hrs. It turned better but not fast enough to start.
It's been 30 hrs now and I'm about to give it another try before running some errands.
A battery warmer may be in my future but as I'm running almost 200 ft of extension cord I'm reluctant
to plug a 300w block heater AND a warmer on the one cord. I have no idea if it's a bad idea or not.

Do you have a small generator that you could power the block heater and a battery warmer? Just a thought. Jon

 

[Yogi05]

No generator.
Using 2 standard outdoor cords (together-not separate cords) for a total of 185 ft (either that or 200 ft).
A Kat's 300w heater supposedly draws 3amps ("Expert Reply:I spoke to my contact at Kat's and they informed me
that the Kat's Heaters Handi-Heat Magnum Magnetic Heater part # KH1190 draws about 3 amps of current.")
and a Kat's 60w battery blanket draws 2.5amps according to a watt/amp calculator on-line.
A GFCI outlet on the side of my house should handle that.
I guess the worst that could happen is the GFCI breaker trips??

 

[LouNY]

400 watts / 120 volts = 3.333 Amps,
60 watts / 120 volts = 0.5 Amps

You shouldn't have any problems

 

[metalbender]

Holy crap Batman. Went to the seniors center for supper in the village, snow blowing across the road pretty good when we left. Cleaned the lane to the highway this afternoon. Coming back at 8:30 pm, drifts made it pretty interesting getting back to the house. By morning the road will be totally blocked about half the distance. Have a good section of bush for part of the way. On the upside, temps will be a tad warmer. Only -15 now, windchill factor -25.

 

[metalbender]

Yup, totally blocked this morning. Wind from the south yesterday, 180 degree turnaround, now from the north gusting to 50 mph. Snow is in a hurry to get back to where it came from yesterday. A lot of it seems to be happy resting on my road to the highway. Two hrs to clear this morning, will be blown in again later today.

 

[LouNY]

Better you then me.
All I've had this winter has been nuisance little 1 1/2 to 3 inch storms.
Have to plow and sand or traffic will make ice.

 

[coupman35]

WHat you got today we are going to get tomorrow . Am in northen ontario it was -38 feel like -46 this morning am happy my tractor and trucks in the garage hope this cold stop soon. They are calling for 2 to 4 cm tonight .

 

[metalbender]

Snow finally stopped moving around. Second time blowing the drive, not blocked but needed to be cleared. Temp is a balmy 0c

 

[Yogi05]

400 watts / 120 volts = 3.333 Amps,
60 watts / 120 volts = 0.5 Amps

You shouldn't have any problems

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Thanks for that. I used a similar calculator.
I am basing the block heater amperage draw on hearsay from an "ask the expert" on a trailer/rv site.
The warmer was input and results from a calculator site like you provided. (maybe I did the calcu on the block heater on that site too. Probably.