Thread: Winter Sucks!!

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It's cold as a mother-in-law's love here in southern California. Next year this time, Key West!!!!!!!

Man I miss Durran Eastman beach and my beach buddies.Five of us all over 60 yrs old with our canvas coolers on sand too hot to walk on just watching the water and another day going by.Folding lawn chairs is the norm.Three of them still raising hell chasing women in bars.LOL.And everyday is a lesson in life from guys with oh so different backgrounds telling their stories of things they have done.

Always miss the summers!

I have one of the Stihl hand held blowers with extensions to blow gutters with, one of their extension chain saws that's 11' extended, but my favorite is the 18" chain saw with the recoil starter. Easy pull wraps the spring, and when it gets to the trip point it spins the engine. One spin to prime, one spin to start, and none of the shoulder strain from the hard pulls. Best option I ever bought!!

after 32 winters at 7000 feet in the colorado rockies.
i am kinda digging the weather here in new mexico.
it gets cold but nothing like at home (read -30f )
i installed at 28000BTU heater in the 27 chevy and drive year round with the windows down.

I used to do quite a bit of business with these guys and all you need is a tax number and your good to go.

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With the engine replacements you need to measure the diameter,length,key way,style of crank.With s/blowers 90% of the work is in carb rebuilds.

The better shaft drive string trimmers have a clutch drive making them easier to start.

Some of the better leaf blowers/string trimmers are 4 cycle so they start the same as any other 4 cycle lawn equipment and last longer not having the engine spin up as high and have alot more torque.

The backpack leaf blowers certainly have a better CFM rating than the hand held's and it is the CFM that is doing the work,not the mph. So as long as you don't care about the blower/vac feature that hand held's have and you have the type of property that needs heavy cleaning,the backpack blowers is the way to go.Here again 4 cycle options are available.

We drove home in the Jeep around 12:30am with light snow still falling and roads very slippery, but awoke this morning to a crystal clear sky and bright sunshine through the snow covered trees. Sure beats living in town!

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Did city (Chicago) life for 50m years now you couldn't drag me back

Could be a bit uncomfortable sitting in that recliner right now,Charlie.. I think I'll stick to what we got..thanks anyway,guys..

Yeah but the drinks stay cool

The only ting that can be bad about country living is losing your power out there this time of year. We had this issue a lot when I was growing up. Back when we got real storms. LOL These lately are just a taste. Haha

BIG Generator in shop takes care of that

That an a pot belly franklin stove!

We've got a little generator; it's big enough to ensure that all fridges/deep freezers are kept cold.
For heating we've got a very efficient portable gas heater, and cooking is taken care of by a couple of camping-type gas stoves.

We have a little generator rather than a large one because our four freezers are in three different locations on the property; and I've got to be able to drag it around to them easily.
The last beast we killed was a tad over 900 lbs of prime Hereford beef...and I don't want to have that lot thaw out!
(And that weight was actual boned-out weight; not hook weight. He was a big-un!)

Although I agree with 40FordDeluxe...we don't get bashed about by the weather like we did fity years back!



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Well it's just after 0700 and a 'rousing' -8.2*F this morning !! First time it's been this chilly for a couple years.

We bought a Chinese made replacement inverter style 3600 watt generator just before the 2011 hurricane Irene wandered through. Kept the reefer on as well as anything else needed for 3-4 days and was used last winter and kept everything necessary for comfort going. I originally bought it to haul around with the camper after we stayed a couple of places where they had voltage problems but hasn't been needed for that since.