What Cabs are for...

odleefs · Oct 22, 2005

Today in the Pocono Mountains of N.E. Pennsylvania, we have temps in the high 30s to low 40s with drizzle, rain and winds gusting up to 25 mph. (If there was an instant markup face for bone chilling I would have inserted it here.) However, this is absolutely beautiful weather to have a cab, especially a heated cab!
After lunch I will be cutting my lawn, hopefully for the last time as we are supposed to get flurries and freezing temps soon.
Steve

Rolando · Oct 22, 2005

We're getting a cold front next week too. The highs are only going to get up to the mid 70's. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif Of course, we're also getting a hurricane. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

odleefs · Oct 23, 2005

Rolando,
We are praying for all of you. Hope it fizzles out by then and/or changes course out into the Atlantic, although I won't hold my breath. And to think, seafaring folk used to celebrate Oct. 15th as the end of the hurricane season! Now we are looking at Alpha for Halloween... Hopefully all will turn out OK.
Steve

BrianSouthernMD · Oct 23, 2005

I'm in between the temperatures of the previous posters, so my Toolcating this weekend was great without running either AC or heat. But it was chilly enough to be glad to be in the enclosed cab! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

And Rolando, I hope your dealer has that Toolcat secured in a safe spot when Wilma passes through!

Rolando · Oct 23, 2005

He had it inside the shop when I was there, but we should just get a lot of rain and some wind. We're in the middle of the state, right where it bends, and two hours away from either coast, so by the time something gets up here it's just a bad storm. The worst damage we had here was last year when we had three go through about 20 days apart. After the first one, the ground got saturated and with the second and third ones some trees got pulled out of the ground, and if they were close enough fell on houses. But there were very few of those cases. The wind didn't damage anything directly.

The coast is nice, but I wouldn't want to live there. My father lives just south of Key Largo, but he has a reinforced concrete house, including the roof, and aluminum panels for the windows. He's never had any damage.

Rolando · Oct 23, 2005

( ... my Toolcating this weekend was great without running either AC or heat. But it was chilly enough to be glad to be in the enclosed cab! )

Funny thing about Florida weather, even with the few days when the temperature would otherwise be nice here, like the mid 70's, you add 85% humidity and you're still going to need the A/C!