[electrode]

I used to live in Wisconsin, was born and raised there, so I know about cold and wind chills. I remember working on my snowmobile in the garage in 20 or 30 below weather with a blizzard outside. The Kerosene heater was not even helping and the gloves had to come off to work the tools better. I do miss snowmobiling and ice fishing though.

p.s. Great job on the repair!

[MinnesotaDave]

Nice work! Glad it wasn't me laying in that snow..lol. Worked outside my whole life and hot/cold never bothered me much but now that I'm getting older and my joints are worn out it's another story. Again, nice work!

Thanks

Yep I know the feeling - pretty glad to have an indoor job most days.

When the wind chill is 40 below it's pretty nice in class - lol.

But I still stand at the window and look outside during the day - miss the outdoors

Summers are spent carpentry/construction, dump truck, welding, mechanic work - whatever I can get until school starts again.

My coworker joked that we have a teaching crew of construction guys who happen to teach in the winter

[MinnesotaDave]

I used to live in Wisconsin, was born and raised there, so I know about cold and wind chills. I remember working on my snowmobile in the garage in 20 or 30 below weather with a blizzard outside. The Kerosene heater was not even helping and the gloves had to come off to work the tools better. I do miss snowmobiling and ice fishing though.

p.s. Great job on the repair!

Thanks

I did the same at my dad's back in the 70's/80's.
As soon as I got out of the military and bought my own place I made a heated shop a priority - something wrong with working inside and still freezing to death - lol.

[MosquitoMoto]

Great job Dave and thanks for sharing your thoughts on coping with working in the cold.

I must be a total wuss...it never gets below about 2 degrees C here even in the middle of winter but even at 5 degrees C I start finding excuses not to go out and work in the shed unless I can use the heater.

Mind you, I grew up in the outback so I cope with heat pretty well. Apart from sweat getting in your eyes, I find that when the temps climb into the 38-45 degrees C range I just wear lighter clothes and drink a lot of water and I cope fine.

Still can't imagine lying in the snow to weld though!

[MinnesotaDave]

Great job Dave and thanks for sharing your thoughts on coping with working in the cold.

I must be a total wuss...it never gets below about 2 degrees C here even in the middle of winter but even at 5 degrees C I start finding excuses not to go out and work in the shed unless I can use the heater.

Mind you, I grew up in the outback so I cope with heat pretty well. Apart from sweat getting in your eyes, I find that when the temps climb into the 38-45 degrees C range I just wear lighter clothes and drink a lot of water and I cope fine.

Still can't imagine lying in the snow to weld though!

Thanks
You guys get some pretty wild heat compared to here - we top out around 35 C. I like shade at those temps

Laying in snow isn't too bad if dressed for it. If it's going to be a long time, a piece of plywood helps keep it from melting and soaking into your clothes. Wet clothes in extreme cold is really awful.