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- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Get Yer Toque On!
- Thread starter Blaithin
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Yes, Dumfries and Galloway?
Second thoughts, probably the highlands.
Looks like the Cairngorms to me 
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
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Looks like the Cairngorms to me
Close enough to town, far enough from (most) people.
We would have considered Canada when NZ wasn't an option but didn't fancy six months of snow now we're well over 50
Twice in my life I have seen a thermometer reading 0 degrees F, or -17.7 degrees C if google is right.
Things on the farm became very difficult very quickly.
I seem to remember the first time we had no electricity either, which is ok, it just makes things very much harder.
The milking parlour would work ok providing you had left no water in the pipe work whatsoever. The problem was that it would freeze in the pipes going from the parlour to dairy, and anyone who has tried to thaw glass pipes out will know that it is not a quick process. As well as wondering how milk at 37 C can freeze so quickly.
The next problem would be trying to start a tractor so that we could scrape the cubicles. I seem to remember that the IH 434 started fine when it was connected to two batteries. It scraped the slurry out of the building, but would move it no further. The 434 managed to jump start the loader tractor, but the diesel froze so that tractor was unusable until it thawed. Luckily, we mostly self fed silage then, but there was a lot of forking and barrowing silage about by hand.
The most time consuming thing was watering stock though. You would set up temporary water troughs and bucket water to them. Meanwhile they liked to overturn the trough when you’d got it nearly full.
Early 1985 in Devon we had -22 c in the wind , is the coldest i have experienced , here at least .
sheep weren't much bothered about as i recall , as long as they had good feed .
but then that's animals for you they don't question or complain , just accept.
sheep weren't much bothered about as i recall , as long as they had good feed .
but then that's animals for you they don't question or complain , just accept.
not quite so , (as it is with the prevailing winds) NE or NNE erlies will drier than our norm. SW or WSW
Similar to the last week or so since Christmas, its dried up a lot because of that change weather direction. similar.
all relative of course , clear skies and another frost tonight and a low of -3 possibly ,
I wouldnt say its getting any colder generally,on the contrary loosely from what i remember ,
and the records back that aparently, with 2023 being the warmest (up over i degree) in 50 yrs ..... make of that what you may.
Similar to the last week or so since Christmas, its dried up a lot because of that change weather direction. similar.
all relative of course , clear skies and another frost tonight and a low of -3 possibly ,
I wouldnt say its getting any colder generally,on the contrary loosely from what i remember ,
and the records back that aparently, with 2023 being the warmest (up over i degree) in 50 yrs ..... make of that what you may.- Location
- East meath/dublin
I remember that year early eighties ..
We spent the best part of a day thawing the parlour an eight unit at the time .
The auld fella said fucck this and put an anti freeze solution through it after milking that and a chinese stove kept the milking easy .
The loader tractor was covered with old blankets and a gas heater wheeled around it before starting .
Like you we couldnt get the slurry much further than the shed door with the scraper and it froze solid .
After minus 5 its just drudgery when you have livestock .
I think even if I moved somewhere with more moderate winters I’d still want a somewhat winterized set up.
Buried water. Draining pipes. Insulated buildings. Sure things wouldn’t need to be buried 8’ deep like here or insulated at highest R value or have the heat turned on all the time, but just the option and ability to be half way to cold weather location standards would be a huge benefit on the random cold days.
Buried water. Draining pipes. Insulated buildings. Sure things wouldn’t need to be buried 8’ deep like here or insulated at highest R value or have the heat turned on all the time, but just the option and ability to be half way to cold weather location standards would be a huge benefit on the random cold days.
FonterraFarmer
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- Waikato, New Zealand
That's still 2 wheeled motorbike weather, I'd still be using the CTX 200 in that weather here!!!
You’ve really got hold of this ‘damp cold’ thing and run with it!
On all the really cold days here there has been next to no wind out of the NE a dry direction, and I would say the cold air has come down off the Bowland fells and we have been in a frost hollow. It felt very cold but was not unpleasant to work in.
That is very cold for Devon. I can’t imagine where the cold air came from.
I think that is sensible. The milking cows’ water never froze, nightmare if it had, but not a huge amount of work would have saved a lot of time in the 1 in 10 cold winters we get.
It’s a joke that you hear all the time when it’s cold. People in other places say “But it’s a dry cold!” like that makes it warmer 
The wussy west coasters are renowned for saying it. For some reason you don’t hear the east coasters say it though
The wussy west coasters are renowned for saying it. For some reason you don’t hear the east coasters say it though
Like the ‘no wildfire smoke’ ! The damp cold is real though!It’s a joke that you hear all the time when it’s cold. People in other places say “But it’s a dry cold!” like that makes it warmer
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Certainly not, we’re British for goodness sake.Just dress better
Deerefarmer
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- USA
Cold is cold...our humidity was higher earlier, never minded to much, today with a mild breeze it’s a good day to keep moving aboutIt’s a joke that you hear all the time when it’s cold. People in other places say “But it’s a dry cold!” like that makes it warmer
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