Life in Alaska

[New Englander]

6 hours ago, AKwelder said:

55 below, so there are lots of manufacturers here with vehicles 

They do it with planes too. S/N 2 getting cold. They said it passed but that early software load absolutely hated the cold! Our first was S/N 51. In the cold we used to start the APU, crank the heat to max until it was uncomfortable then shut it down and start all over again. Latest software no problem. Funny to think the plane is software driven. Engines and APU never gave us a problem in the cold but the rest of the systems just refused.

[AKwelder]

3 hours ago, augercreek said:

Most weird winter I've ever seen in my 80+ years! 47* yesterday and maybe a inch of snow left. We are almost 3 feet short of our normal snow fall. We were in a drought last year and now we have a good start on one this year.

That sucks.  Hope you don’t get caught up all at once. 

[AKwelder]

2 hours ago, New Englander said:

They do it with planes too. S/N 2 getting cold. They said it passed but that early software load absolutely hated the cold! Our first was S/N 51. In the cold we used to start the APU, crank the heat to max until it was uncomfortable then shut it down and start all over again. Latest software no problem. Funny to think the plane is software driven. Engines and APU never gave us a problem in the cold but the rest of the systems just refused.

Never seen the planes.  But the vehicles are all over 

[AKwelder]

And tonight it’s a Rivian

[TroyDairy]

On 1/31/2024 at 7:33 PM, AKwelder said:

Two Tesla trucks passing me tonight

 

 

cold weather test I guess

Still ugly even with a camera phone at speed....😉

[New Englander]

8 hours ago, AKwelder said:

Rivian

Good looking vehicles except for the god awful front end. Who the heck designed that? My friend's college buddy has one and he took my friend and some other buddies for a ride. Apparently it really goes and the fit and finish is very good. Guy is in FL so no issues like the frozen Teslas in Chicago.

[AKwelder]

8 hours ago, TroyDairy said:

Still ugly even with a camera phone at speed....😉

Agreed.  And how would this be useful as a truck?  I’ll wait.

[AKwelder]

2 hours ago, New Englander said:

Good looking vehicles except for the god awful front end. Who the heck designed that? My friend's college buddy has one and he took my friend and some other buddies for a ride. Apparently it really goes and the fit and finish is very good. Guy is in FL so no issues like the frozen Teslas in Chicago.

Yeah, I didn’t realize what it was for a while. Seems to be a nice looking vehicle, about like a suburban 

[AKwelder]

Been having a cold snap

 

it’s been -40 for seven of the last 9 days.  
 

We used to see weather like this more often, but it’s been a couple years, I head we went 700 days without -40. Lots of people have new (to them) cars and houses that are having issues. They have never had these temps since the purchased. So the weak spots are being exposed.

[TroyDairy]

6 hours ago, AKwelder said:

Been having a cold snap

 

it’s been -40 for seven of the last 9 days.  
 

We used to see weather like this more often, but it’s been a couple years, I head we went 700 days without -40. Lots of people have new (to them) cars and houses that are having issues. They have never had these temps since the purchased. So the weak spots are being exposed.

Thats interesting how in a 'desert' at -45 fog can exist

[AKwelder]

2 hours ago, TroyDairy said:

Thats interesting how in a 'desert' at -45 fog can exist

All the vapor from cars, breathing, and heating houses doesn’t dissipate or rise. It just sits there and accumulates.
 

and we missed getting 11 inches of rain last year by just a little bit

[New Englander]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I've seen the accumulated fog from vehicles when we used to stop in Iqaluit, formerly know as Frobisher Bay in Nunavut when flying from the west coast to Europe in shorter range planes. It was common for it to be -40 or so in the winter. All the exhaust from building heaters and vehicles would make what I assume was a low lying ice fog under the right conditions.

What a godforsaken place. Frozen and barren in winter and clouds of mosquitos in summer. I was really glad when we got longer range planes.

[hardtail]

Well not quite that latitude but we usually have winter for 5-6 months and I couldn't be happier with globull warming, any one that wants to live in an ice age under 200 feet of snow and ice go ahead, a normal job that would take you 5 mins in the summer can immediately double or triple or even go right sideways and be a day or two in the extreme cold, you really have to live it to have any concept of reality which very few of these experts have any clue.

[AKwelder]

21 minutes ago, hardtail said:

Well not quite that latitude but we usually have winter for 5-6 months and I couldn't be happier with globull warming, any one that wants to live in an ice age under 200 feet of snow and ice go ahead, a normal job that would take you 5 mins in the summer can immediately double or triple or even go right sideways and be a day or two in the extreme cold, you really have to live it to have any concept of reality which very few of these experts have any clue.

Yes.  Very much so regarding the change in time for a job.

 

last week, needed to haul a load of heating oil for the other house.  So I spent 2 hours after work heating the flat bed up and clearing it off to bring it home. Put it in the shop to thaw out, ran across town at lunch for a load of heating oil, dumped it into the house tank, and put everything away.  All told I had over 6 hours in and an overnight thawing of the truck (and not including cleaning up the mess in the shop). In the fall the job takes me 1-1/2 hours tops.

[Finney]

AK, you in367 or 375??

[AKwelder]

2 hours ago, Finney said:

AK, you in367 or 375??

375

[Finney]

502

[AKwelder]

1 hour ago, Finney said:

502

Ok, I had thought you spent time working pipeline form your posts.  Your boys in the UA also?

[Finney]

7 hours ago, AKwelder said:

Ok, I had thought you spent time working pipeline form your posts.  Your boys in the UA also?

I did, switched in mid 80'S. Yes in UA.

[AKwelder]

It as warm, and I needed to clear a path to a shed, so I had the Kubota and the snow blower out yesterday 

 

cut down one of the snow banks and made room for more while I was out.  Hard to beat a blower for making room

[AKwelder]

Well, it’s way warmer than normal, but cold is coming

 

big swing is forecast.  We shall see how accurate they end up

[AKwelder]

Well, it was warm so I fired up the 460 to peel the berm in from of the garage up

befotr

 

after

 

 

wow,   I need to fix the muffler

 

while driving home this guy was running next to me 

 

 

with his spare key hanging on the rope cleat

 

thats faith

[AKwelder]

Afterwards had the 460 in the shop

 

need tires

 

and sheet metal 

[Alan Dinan]

10 hours ago, AKwelder said:

Afterwards had the 460 in the shop

 

need tires

 

and sheet metal 

They’re still round and no flat spots on the bottom!!

[AKwelder]

3 hours ago, Alan Dinan said:

They’re still round and no flat spots on the bottom!!

True.  But I can see the tube