Making lake ice

Makes our cold snap here in Florida look fine. 47. Will warm to a cool 65-68. No ice.

Well Martin, at least it's not like the early days of riding. Now with the high tech clothing and electrically heated everything, it's like taking a ride in summer!

Lots of fishing coming up...

Now we're making some real good lake ice. I'm at -27 with no wind chill.

8122pbrainard wrote: Now we're making some real good lake ice. I'm at -27 with no wind chill.

We managed to put 100 miles on yesterday Pete. Was a balmy -4 when we got back to the cabin.

Pete

With your forecast for the next few days, you need to do something useful like mix up some of that pink minus 50 antifreeze in a couple of different batches like a 50% water to 50% antifreeze mix and another one with a 25% water to 75% antifreeze mix.

Fill a couple of glass jars stick them outdoors and see if the jars are still in one piece in the morning.

No need to sit outdoors watching them all night Gary might think differently though

Gary S wrote: It's all relative - I had to wear long pants to go to lunch in the boat today.......

Are we going to have to go through this again?

Dang Pete, that is wicked cold, my son has a home in North Pole Alaska and it is warmer than you are seeing!   I saw the temp dip just a bit below 50 here and I am cold. You guys must be frozen.   Stay warm, you know we are in global warming so your record temps are not real.   Just pretend you are warm!   
Hope you stay safe, the body is not meant to survive at those temps.

Put it in a small glass container that won't bulge.and fill it all the way

And mix it in the ratios like mentioned above

It looks like it's 49 degrees indoors on your thermometer, better throw a few more logs on the fire

Morfoot wrote: I don't how y'all do it.... That's just too friggin cold for this Georgia Boy. When it's that cold out do y'all still put a lamp under the engine cover to "warm" it up a bit to keep the antifreeze from freezing? I acquired a marine engine compartment heater that I put under Miss Scarletts bra as temps in the 19F might chill down the garage to below freezing and yes she still has lake water in her veins... Stay warm you guys....

No, some of us just worry about cheaping out on the -50 anti freeze and not splurging on the -100 stuff.

We are not nearly as cold here, -16 supposed to reach a high of at least 4! outside chance of getting all the way up to 6! Global warming will be here this weekend as the forecasters are calling for 45-50. I am patiently waiting for the results of Pete's experiment.

Mail halted today and tomorrow here in Michigan. Had a little hop to my skip while walking in the woods today enjoying the scenery.

I've been thinking about you Pete and wondering how you are surviving that crazy cold weather up there. Sounds brutal.