Kind of a tough thought to stomach....
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Topic: Kind of a tough thought to stomach....
Posted By: darrel in ND
Subject: Kind of a tough thought to stomach....
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2018 at 7:03am
| But before we know it, winter will be here. Been getting down to 40 at night the last few nights, and highs in the 60's. Last Friday when we were shutting down at work for the weekend, we were sweating like hogs. Monday and Tuesday, we were thinking about getting out the long underwear. Guess that the old saying about ND weather; "If you don't like the weather here, just wait five minutes and it'll change" holds pretty true. We did get some much needed rain on Monday. I suppose some of the farmers harvesting wheat weren't happy about it, but we needed it for fire suppression if nothing else. It may help some of my corn; other corn is already too far gone. I am sure that we'll still get our fair share of warm weather yet, but this spell is just a gentle reminder to us that it is time to start thinking about getting ready for winter. I suppose it may get some folks, one in particular, fired up about servicing out a snow machine and having it ready to go on a minutes notice. Won't break my heart if it waits about six months to run, though. Darrel |
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Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2018 at 7:13am
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I do not care for cold...down to 40 is not bad but freezing and below is not comfortable to me... of course I dress for it but cold is still cold. I can 'put up with' the heat a little easier.
------------- Holding a grudge is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2018 at 8:44am
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Hey Floyd, up here in MN you get used to the cold but the dang wind will kill ya. Get above 80 and it starts getting uncomfortable for me. My mother will wear a sweater in 85-90 degree weather, always has. I have to run the heat at 74 min in the winters for her and she's bundled up inside still, I run the summers at 78 and I'm in shorts only.. So I understand. Winters coming, dread the wind but love the ice fishing. ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2018 at 11:36am
Your my kind of guy Floyd. But have got to where I use the high temperature
 as excuse to sit in the shade. But I hate to be cold. |
FloydKS wrote:Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2018 at 11:46am
| oh boy,oh boy,oh boy,oh boy!!!! |
Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2018 at 11:58am
| Shameless has been servicing the " SNOW MACHINE"! I try and not complain about the weather as no good ever comes of complaining! As my Dad you to say We will take what we get! Has been real HOT and MUGGY here but starting to cool down. Feels good! |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2018 at 12:58pm
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Man, I gotta be getting old, already moving this and that trying to make room to make whatever 'he whoshall not be named' sends me this Winter. Can't stand the heat or humdidity since heat stroke of '14. Cold freezes toes and one finger(no... the RING finger...) Sad thing is I can't even sell a rider that starts,runs, cuts grass for $120. Dang, probably have to store it til Spring.... Oh well.... Jay ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2018 at 7:58am
| I been busy cutting firewood! kinda weird since we heat with pellets right now! I might gits the old wood furnace up and running again tho! |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2018 at 8:53am
There is absolutely no heat that will feel as warm as the heat from a good old fashioned wood burning furnace. When I was a kid, we had one in the basement, and man was it ever cozy down there when we had that thing ginning. It was the REAL OLD style, complete with an oven and stove top. Once in a while we'd even cook with it. Very nostalgic. Darrel |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2018 at 9:53am
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Gosh,,,,I can sense the anticipation of all Ya'll guys just waitin on the first efforts of our "pal" and,,,,and,,,lookin forward to all the things you can and plan to do once the snow starts flyin,,,,,,,,,  Fact is,,,,I just heard on the radio just yesterday,,,,!!! that the " Old Farmers Almanac" is predictin abnormally high snow levels this year,,,,,,and prolly a few cold times thrown in for good measure,,,,, Now,,, before you start throwin darts or "pokers" at ole DJ,,,,I was just quotin thet radio guy,,,just relayin info,,,,so's we can get ready,,,,,,  OH,,and when I go visit him later,,,I'm gonna have a good look at thet machine,,and,,,,and,,,see'in as how a great Shade Tree I am,,,,,,,I might be talked into makin some permenent changes to the frequency settins,,,,,,
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Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2018 at 11:24am
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I have two philosophies. 1. I live in MI so it's going to get cold or hot, live with it. 2. You can put on more clothes to get warmer, but you can only take off so many and you'll still be hot! It's nice having a house with a furnace and central air so I can enjoy the extremes outside, sitting inside looking out the windows! ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: Gordy
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2018 at 12:00pm
Old Farmer's Almanac Winter 2019 Forecast Says It Will Be Warm and Wet------------- “If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough” |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2018 at 12:12pm
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I am one of those that tolerates heat better than most, cold does not really get to me until the wind fires up, been working in 20 degree weather shirt sleeved and not felt it. Forecasts are not looking so pretty, almanac for Here says colder than normal and wetter than normal. May see early snows. Glad I retired, screw getting out in the crap to get to a job, have one here!! As to that ND weather quote, they stole that from MO, "If you do not like the weather here, wait fifteen minutes, will change!!" |
Posted By: weiner
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2018 at 2:11pm
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I wouldn`t mind winter if we could get rid of January, Febuary, and March. ------------- Real heros wear dogtags, not capes. |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2018 at 11:22pm
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I've heard it both in Ohio and Colorado, I guess it changes fairly quick no matter where you are! ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2018 at 2:23pm
| Now the weatherman on tv just said that the Farmers Almanac is saying another extremely cold winter, sure do hope the book is wrong 2 in a row ain't right |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2018 at 12:49pm
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I've learned to just live with whatever Old Mother Nature dishes out. The weather the last couple of years has been really weird. Now we're being deluged with rain water again. Nothing for July and August and now it won't quit again. Hot, cold all over the place. Cold winter, no snow. Cold winter LOTs of snow. Long winter, short winter. Just plain weird... ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2018 at 1:23pm
| We're on a run of 90s + here in Ohio going to be at least 4 days before it's over started Sunday |