Freddy's Coffee House 4Feb2023 Frostbite Falls Edition!
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warminmn
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Your pic is eerily similar to mine Smitty! I really had to look at it to be sure it wasnt mine.
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D-frost
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warm....
barn door- I've used something called 'ice melt'. It's a white pellet, in a 20lb. plastic bag(home depot, lowes,etc.)......works a lot faster than rock salt. Good luck.
Cheers
barn door- I've used something called 'ice melt'. It's a white pellet, in a 20lb. plastic bag(home depot, lowes,etc.)......works a lot faster than rock salt. Good luck.
Cheers
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warminmn
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Thanks! Melting wouldnt work very fast as its tight against the door and building a couple feet high and its a sliding door that barely works in the summer. I just got in but had to pretty much break a side door open that was of course locked on the inside. I plan on tearing the barn down so could have sawed thru if I had too except the raccoons would move in then. My lumber is in there and electric crap I needed or I would have waited til late March when it melts.
Very similar colors! Just different times of the day. 
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Jkohanski
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9 deg here in west central NJ at 8:00am. Went pheasant hunting, froze my face, but got a few. Coal boiler did excellent, house warm and toasty. Time for cup of coffee.
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Freddy
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Yup, she was c-c-cold last night. Minus 17 alllll night, didn't waver a bit. The wind chills were up & down. I caught the cold one on camera.... minus 47. Yowza! "I set the coffee on the veranda to cool a bit..... it froze so fast the ice was still hot!"
The Axeman loved it... he's got legs & loves to run.
The Axeman loved it... he's got legs & loves to run.
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waytomany?s
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The ice was still hot. I'm going to use that. I will give proper credit when i do.Freddy wrote: ↑Sat. Feb. 04, 2023 8:21 pmYup, she was c-c-cold last night. Minus 17 alllll night, didn't waver a bit. The wind chills were up & down. I caught the cold one on camera.... minus 47. Yowza! "I set the coffee on the veranda to cool a bit..... it froze so fast the ice was still hot!"
The Axeman loved it... he's got legs & loves to run.
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Rob R.
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I made it back from Syracuse last night around 6pm. I burned about 200 lbs of coal in 18 hours.
There are lots of repairs going on locally due to frozen pipes. Our fireman also had to battle the extreme cold on Saturday when the local bar caught fire. Thankfully no one got hurt.
There are lots of repairs going on locally due to frozen pipes. Our fireman also had to battle the extreme cold on Saturday when the local bar caught fire. Thankfully no one got hurt.
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SMITTY
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Crap! A bar fire in the winter is a national emergency! 
That's about what I burned I'm guessing, and the baseboards could only get the place to 64°. We had -13.4° for the lowest temp, and -26° for the lowest wind chill. Coldest I've ever seen here. Never been that cold with that much wind, either. I burned somewhere around 60 pounds of coal in 8 hours flat! Normally I can fill the barrel once a week, but had this kept on, would've been 2-3 days tops.
Nice haul, Jkohanski! Been decades since I've had pheasant. Used to be a ton of them around where I grew up in the 70's. These days they seem to have vanished completely. Haven't seen one out that way in 3 decades.
Edited to remove pics due to memory issues (ME!).
That's about what I burned I'm guessing, and the baseboards could only get the place to 64°. We had -13.4° for the lowest temp, and -26° for the lowest wind chill. Coldest I've ever seen here. Never been that cold with that much wind, either. I burned somewhere around 60 pounds of coal in 8 hours flat! Normally I can fill the barrel once a week, but had this kept on, would've been 2-3 days tops.Nice haul, Jkohanski! Been decades since I've had pheasant. Used to be a ton of them around where I grew up in the 70's. These days they seem to have vanished completely. Haven't seen one out that way in 3 decades.
Edited to remove pics due to memory issues (ME!).
