Scotty

Just took the garbage out... -17C which does not sound too bad but wow is the wind howling. Gusts over 80KMH and windchill warnings again.

I think I beat the crud...maybe. Feel better then last night.

Tempted to go outside and bob around in the hot tub.

ofcmarc

You might be a redneck if your wife has ever said "come move this transmission so I can take a bath".........~Jeff Foxworthy

Bark

Didnt want to say anything for fear of encouraging you.

Very interesting. When my BP is up I am willing to try almost anything.

For me he has always been a good bedtime read

You get your power back??

ofcmarc Thats funny, hadnt heard it before.

Totallyrad

Hey.... I didn't say some assembly required, I said complete. Just add fuel.

Fronty Owner

I really dont miss the days when I would spend the weekend fixin' the truck so I could drive it to work thru the week.

chaikwa

Nope. They said 'probably' by Friday.

Bark

Yikes, we were only out for 28hrs and used a lot of gas. Hope you are able to turn the gen off at night.

chaikwa

Unfortunately they need to run 24/7. Pipes in buildings will freeze if they aren't kept warm, and seeing as how this dive was built in the 60's and 70's when oil was cheap, and when it was owned by a family that owned an oil company, oil consumption wasn't a concern and there-fore neither was building structures that would hold the heat. The pumps in the wells need to keep running because most of the water lines in the ground are so shallow that if the water doesn't keep running, they freeze. And in turn, the grey water pumps need to run fairly often too, to keep the running water at bay. Then there's the servers that need to be kept at constant temperatures to be happy. And then... well, you get the picture!

Lary Ellis (Top)

Ours was out here for 3 days and after tending to everything all evening long I finally laid down about 4 am figuring to catch a cat nap and then refuel the generator...... About 6 am it ran out of gas and apparently it had a little moisture in the fuel tank because the carburetor froze up

I had to take the carb apart and clean it in the dark before I could get it fueled up and running again

Moral of the story is.......shut it down and fill it before taking a cat nap

chaikwa

No. Moral of the story is; if generator screws up, call Lary and take a nap. He can fix those things in the dark!

Lary Ellis (Top)

Thank God he can!

Red3quarter

Watch those EMD 20 cyls, they have a tendancy to snap the crank in half. Emd SD45 Locomotives used that engine and most RRs replaced the 20's with 16's because of the crankshaft problem.


Good evening and good night DTR.

Bark

Yikes! I forgot about your place. At least at my lil home even this time of the year I can get away without power for six hours without freezing anything. When we leave, we can drain the lines and antifreeze the everything else.

wyododge

Hmmm, how do you antifreeze pipes??? is that kinda like that silver stuff you put on the threads of bolts so they done freeze up. Man I'm gonna have to find some of that stuff...

Oh wait thats seize...

So much to learn, so little time...

Bark

Thought you were gonna start talking about stealing aunties thermal underwear to make auntifreeze.