Well boys, what's your temperature like now?

[CoElkHunter]

-24 this AM in SW Minnesota

Time to get outside and grill some ribs. LOL

 

[Ontario Hunter]

How do you keep your water pipes from freezing, starting your vehicles to go to work, breathing outside to do anything without your lungs freezing? I thought the few times here when it's been -25 was inconvenient as I've had to work out in it, but those temps are really brutal. Take some of your big bores out and see if they'll fire so in the event you hunt musk ox someday you'll be prepared. LOL

Best way to keep pipes from freezing is turn the kitchen faucet to warm setting and down to just a tiny dribble. Leave it like that overnight. Flushing the toilet, etc during the day should keep water moving enough to avoid pipes freezing.

If your vehicle can't be plugged in, remove battery and take it inside overnight. Kept warm it will turn the engine over sufficiently in the morning to start the car. Keep tools in the house and wear good mitts when fiddling with cables.

To avoid frosting lungs simply wear a wool scarf over mouth and nose. I have actually hunted moose in near -30C and lived to tell about it. Did fine but absolutely no wind. Had even a slight breeze come up, I might have been a goner. Thankfully, I didn't see anything to shoot at. I knew a trappers cabin was less than a mile away so it was possible backup plan.

 

[Ontario Hunter]

How do you keep your water pipes from freezing, starting your vehicles to go to work, breathing outside to do anything without your lungs freezing? I thought the few times here when it's been -25 was inconvenient as I've had to work out in it, but those temps are really brutal. Take some of your big bores out and see if they'll fire so in the event you hunt musk ox someday you'll be prepared. LOL

For those who live in mobile homes, you can try heat tape on pipes under the house. Just make sure your homeowners insurance is paid up and replace smoke alarm batteries.

 

[CoElkHunter]

For those who live in mobile homes, you can try heat tape on pipes under the house. Just make sure your homeowners insurance is paid up and replace smoke alarm batteries.

Yeah, I lived in a newer pre manufactured (double wide trailer home) here for 11 years. When it was -25F for a couple of days, the water pipe(s) froze in the crawl space. Fortunately, they were plastic. I used a hair dryer for quite awhile to unfreeze them. No heat tape used as I had been told it can burn your house down.

 

[Ontario Hunter]

Yeah, I lived in a newer pre manufactured (double wide trailer home) here for 11 years. When it was -25F for a couple of days, the water pipe(s) froze in the crawl space. Fortunately, they were plastic. I used a hair dryer for quite awhile to unfreeze them. No heat tape used as I had been told it can burn your house down.

Must have been flex-pipe? PVC will break in a heartbeat. Someone replaced the plumbing in my old camper trailer with flex-pipe. Great selling point when I was shopping for one. Good roof, plumbing, and furnace. What else do ya need?

 

[Milo]

+34 in Eagle River Alaska. Worked outside in a tshirt today.

 

[Flbt]

32F? You'd better get to the supermarket and stock up. LOL

Lol
My wife makes breed
And we still live out of freezer and canned vegetables
But might need to make a run on toilet paper
Don’t ever want to have to use corn cobs again
My grate aunts stayed in the old house till they died in the early 80s
No water no phone no electrice
Looking back on it I should have kept the old house up
The original part was built in 1823

 

[WyoBull]

+2F in Casper, Wyoming this morning. Very frigid but we are supposed to start warming up into the double digits tomorrow and maybe even above freezing by the end of the week.

 

[Rellik]

In south central MT it is currently -7 with light snow. On our way to a forecasted overnight low of -24.