Cold Ass Cold In Canada
01-09-2004, 11:15 PM
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So sunday it was +9
And this morning I worked dayshift in the shop at my work.
It was -22 WITHOUT the winds. -38 with the "windchill factor". ALL OUR **** WOULDNT START.
Low range gears in the trannies of our trucks were stuck. Wouldnt switch down (too cold and frozen), so we only had high range (try moving alot of weight in gear 6 or 7 because you don't have your bottom gears). Yeah so anyways we get a forklift that was chained to a trailer into our shop because the forklift is it's frozen and won't budge off the trailer. It wouldn't start, propane something or other check valve or solenoid was frozen. So we make it go after a while of sitting in the shop, then the air system was frozen. So we fixed that, then the hydraulics were frozen. Had to heat it up with a bigass torch to thaw it out.
IT WAS RAW OUTSIDE I TELL YOU. IT FELT LIKE THE COLD WAS EATING MY FACE.
So then we tried to start.. You name it.. Crane, Liftruck, Big truck, nothing would go on it's own without killing batteries or needing starting fluid. PITA. Ether was our friend today.
We also spent.. get this.. 8 HOURS getting a truck to move. EIGHT. The diesel fuel gelled up from the cold (driver filled up with diesel from the south, which I am told gels up very easy up here in teh Canada cold), and yeah.. We didn't have the resources to make it happen. And this truck had a PLASTIC OIL PAN so we couldn't heat up the oil either so it wouldn't have to spin through molases. Batteries were weak anyways, it was a broker's truck, not a company truck. WTF. 14.9 Litres displacement and 1875 ft/lbs of torque, and a plastic ******* oil pan. All we had was a big torch to heat up the tanks.
I forget where I was going with this so... [/stories]
And this morning I worked dayshift in the shop at my work.
It was -22 WITHOUT the winds. -38 with the "windchill factor". ALL OUR **** WOULDNT START.
Low range gears in the trannies of our trucks were stuck. Wouldnt switch down (too cold and frozen), so we only had high range (try moving alot of weight in gear 6 or 7 because you don't have your bottom gears). Yeah so anyways we get a forklift that was chained to a trailer into our shop because the forklift is it's frozen and won't budge off the trailer. It wouldn't start, propane something or other check valve or solenoid was frozen. So we make it go after a while of sitting in the shop, then the air system was frozen. So we fixed that, then the hydraulics were frozen. Had to heat it up with a bigass torch to thaw it out.
IT WAS RAW OUTSIDE I TELL YOU. IT FELT LIKE THE COLD WAS EATING MY FACE.
So then we tried to start.. You name it.. Crane, Liftruck, Big truck, nothing would go on it's own without killing batteries or needing starting fluid. PITA. Ether was our friend today.
We also spent.. get this.. 8 HOURS getting a truck to move. EIGHT. The diesel fuel gelled up from the cold (driver filled up with diesel from the south, which I am told gels up very easy up here in teh Canada cold), and yeah.. We didn't have the resources to make it happen. And this truck had a PLASTIC OIL PAN so we couldn't heat up the oil either so it wouldn't have to spin through molases. Batteries were weak anyways, it was a broker's truck, not a company truck. WTF. 14.9 Litres displacement and 1875 ft/lbs of torque, and a plastic ******* oil pan. All we had was a big torch to heat up the tanks.
I forget where I was going with this so... [/stories]
01-10-2004, 03:01 AM
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Sissy.I had -45 at the first few days of january but that was before the windchill factor.Lucky for me my old mazda B2200 started right up.Now its +2 again for god only knows how long this time.
01-10-2004, 10:14 AM
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Ha!
I had -40 with more snow than I cared to see . . .the faint glimmer of street lamps is what helped me stay on the road. 20cm in about 6 hours!
But it's ok, this morning it's a balmy -35! My car still starts, although the it feels like I'm shifting a bowl of taffy. Yay Canada!
I had -40 with more snow than I cared to see . . .the faint glimmer of street lamps is what helped me stay on the road. 20cm in about 6 hours!
But it's ok, this morning it's a balmy -35! My car still starts, although the it feels like I'm shifting a bowl of taffy. Yay Canada!
01-10-2004, 10:35 AM
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Yeah but did you guys have to work outside most of the day?
I also had to rearrange some bigass platforms outside in the yard and load them onto a trailer for shipping to Chicago.
Took a long time, especially considering the liftruck I was using wouldn't start either.
I also had to rearrange some bigass platforms outside in the yard and load them onto a trailer for shipping to Chicago.
Took a long time, especially considering the liftruck I was using wouldn't start either.
01-10-2004, 10:41 AM
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Originally Posted by ColinRX7' date='Jan 10 2004, 11:35 AM
Yeah but did you guys have to work outside most of the day?
I also had to rearrange some bigass platforms outside in the yard and load them onto a trailer for shipping to Chicago.
Took a long time, especially considering the liftruck I was using wouldn't start either.
I also had to rearrange some bigass platforms outside in the yard and load them onto a trailer for shipping to Chicago.
Took a long time, especially considering the liftruck I was using wouldn't start either.
