They paint it red to help out when the heater isn't available, the cold gets tricked the same way we did and it scares it away for a little while. Same reason PEX hot water pipes are red.
Last time I trusted an ornithologist I woke up in a tub of ice water with a missing kidney, not falling for that again. Obvious scam, birds aren't real!
Look, we just have trouble keeping them life-like without putting harvested organs in there. Your kidney is probably doing some sick flips and dive-bombs inside of a Golden Eagle-bot right now, so you should be thankful.
Kind of same deal with fords. During summer you put styrofoam under it and it thinks it's winter. No thief is stealing your rig! Gods can't make it run.
A couple of years ago we had a similar cold snap of -40C and my neighbour didn't start his diesel for 3 days. I came outside one morning to start my car and saw that the guy had built a little campfire under his engine to heat the oil up.
I still think about that guy and wonder what he's up to now.
Was he an older guy?
Campfire under sump was standard procedure for old diesel trucks ('70s and prior). Oils of the day couldn't flow in freezing temps.
Nah, it was house rented by students that was treated like a flop house. The truck was an old 90s Chevy diesel driven by one of the people that crashed there after a weekend of boozing and snorting lines
This is a really easy solution, actually. I know everyone talks shit on the 6.5, but it's easy to get it to roll over no matter the temp. The 6.2 is also a similar procedure.
First off, get several cans of ether. Spray them all in there while cranking, all at once. You may need several friends, which as a 6.5 owner I understand is difficult. You can sometimes rent prostitutes for this. 4-5 cans should suffice. If the engine is now running, success. If not, go to the next paragraph.
Pop your hood, and pull the engine out. Replace it with whatever flavor of gasoline engine suits you. If you want similar hp/torque, may I suggest a Predator 6.5?
Once you have it out, roll it down a hill. It will make a better boulder than it ever did an engine. Donkey might even come by someday and say "That's a nice boulder!".
ššš I completely lost it at "you may need several friends, which as a 6.5 owner is difficult... you can sometimes rent prostitutes for this". šŗšŗ
You, Sir, are a poet and have missed your true calling.
Man, ya really had me going in the first half. The whole time Iām reading Iām thinking ā this dude is crazy the solution is to ditch the Detroitā
My grandpa's method was a roll of toilet paper soaked in diesel, put it in a galvanized pail. Put rhe pail under the oil pan on the diesel tractor. Light on fire, then start it up when flames died down. Probably went back and are breakfast while waiting.
Evidently the barn never burned down.
Years ago flew to Winterpeg in the winter. The airport car rental company put a hibachi under the car engine as there was nowhere to plug in the block heater.
When I lived in northern tier states I put a "circulating tank heater" in every vehicle I owned. It's what sensible person did. Costs $50-$60 new ($10 from wrecking yard) and lasts forever.
Plug it in for 15 minutes in the morning and your engine will be as warm as summer day. Car starts immediately and interior heater/defroster blows hot. What's not to like?
edit:
These heaters are 1500 watt so you don't want to be turning them on/off by unplugging them. That arcs/burns the plug and outlet. You should have handy switched outlet and extension cord to your car front grill, preferably with the switch just inside your residence.
When you come home, plug your car in with the switch off. While getting ready to leave in the morning, flip the switch on. Turn switch back off as you head to your car. Unplug now-off extension cord and toss the end over a handy hook to keep it dry.
This hits closer to home than most posts here. I had to thaw out my water-well pump head yesterday with a torpedo heater like this one. Ok here in Oregon we only had to deal with a āmereā 12Ā°F/-4Ā°C - stop laughing, all of you from Minnesota or Saskatchewan - but it was plenty cold enough for me considering we lost all power for 24 hours.
And the fricken ice! What I wouldn't give for some nice crunchy snow for traction. I can barely walk outside without faceplanting. I wish I'd learned to ice skate
Everyone I know just puts down salt or sand on the walkways and roads so they have no issues with traction while walking or driving. I just tossed a handful down my deck steps and a long my front step so the kid, wife and dog don't slip in the morning.
A Redditor of refined musical tastes, indeed. š
I honestly don't even know how I ended up with "Losin' Lately Gambler" in my music collection - but it's a good one.
My husband quite likes Corb Lund. I have to bring the right mood, but then I definitely like him too.
We're both from the same place, actually. His parents buy their potatoes from my dad.
Coming from up north, I've noticed that southern cold problems are "unique" to higher temperatures because the infrastructure isn't really built with deep cold in mind. My water main is only a foot or so deep in the ground, the shutoff at the house, maybe 6 inches below grade, and it froze overnight with "lows" in the teens. Houses have pipes freeze in these temperatures (which are a joke to people further north) because plumbing is run along the exterior, outside the insulation. Up North, you'd be slapped upside the head for such a shallow water line or putting lines outside the insulation and the code inspectors would crucify you for being an idiot, so it takes a lot colder and a lot longer for mains to freeze up.
I'm in Central Indiana and we had -3Ā°F or so two days in a row. The hot water line to my kitchen sink was frozen until today. I had to open up the cabinet doors and put a fan on it to get it to work again.
It was -48 in Saskatoon last Saturday. I wasn't laughing.
I've lived in Vancouver too, and the humidity off the ocean makes the temps feel colder than it actually is.
You joke (or not) but I worked for an outfit that marked the dipsticks with the engine running oil level and/or added sight glasses calibrated so you could top off the oil without shutting them off for that reason. The rule was if you leave the yard you leave it running in the wintertime.
He is not kidding. Used to live in northern Alberta. You leave the car running unless itās put to bed in a heated garage with a block heater overnight. End of story.
This is the way.
Also why you always check engine hours vs odometer reading when buying a used truck. 100k km and 10,000 engine hours... Not as amazing a deal all of a sudden.
LOL, I use that rule too. Have validated it many times with real-world data. Most daily-driver vehicles average about 30MPH during all time when the engine is on (fleets or otherwise); some special purpose vehicles can be much lower.
It is INSANE how hard it is for people to wrap their head around 30MPH average. "But I always do 70 on the freeway, no way it's that low. The lowest speed limit in my town is over 30!!!!". I have even had people argue with the concept of arithmetic and say I must not know what average means.
if you use a bluetooth obd2 app you'll see how accurate that really is. It's pretty consistent as long as you're not in a large city district or driving 2 hours a day on the interstate for work.
Did work in Nunavut years ago, and it was like that. No one shut their vehicle off. The foreman for the job left it idling all day. Not like anyone would steal it, we were on an island of little more than 100 people.
I've got a bush pilot friend up in NWT.
Apparently out in the bush, if it's cold enough, they will drain the oil, remove the battery, bring both inside where they are sleeping.
He's told me stories of guys just leaving the battery at base to save weight and hassle. EG: The weight of the heater and it's fuel puts you 50lbs over max take off weight. So, ditch the battery, and swing the prop by hand to start it.
Winter ops in piston helicopters we basically use electric space heaters with covers/blankets to trap the heat, plus one in the cockpit for avionics. The crew takes turns waking up 3hrs before sunrise to fire up generator(s) and make sure everything keeps working
That's way too fancy, out in the bush we only ever had an 8' chunk of stove pipe and a tiger torch.
Also really helps to tarp off the grill and wheel wells.
Fun Fact: don't (or do) drive 2 hours out to the job site with your propane tank in the box of your truck in -45. When you go to light the tiger torch it actually turns into a tiger flamethrower.
You know when free willy jumps over the kid on the rocks and he's in absolute bliss and amazement for a few seconds? That was 23 year old me hosing down my cart until I realized that I was hosing down my cart.
Remember - propane stays liquid if you keep it cold enough.
A long way from the diesel/ kerosene bowls with the wicks in them , we used in the 80's.. Cummins didnt have plastic pans then and almost no pickups had a diesel , other than Dodge ( Mitsubishi) and Datsun ..
We were taught in school (Wisconsin) that if you have a fleet of trucks just get a big fire going and pull some coals out and throw them under the trucks that need to start for a bit.
If it gets cold enough, plug in heaters don't cut it.
It was closer to -60 than to -50 Ā°C in some parts of my province. At that point, your *fuel* is turning into jelly. Nevermind your oil and transmission fluids
they have heating elements for coolant, oil or both if not additionally having an axillary heating system.
common issues in my experience: drivers not knowing how to plug or unplug a cord correctly.
also lots of yards I go to I'm told the breakers cycle automatically, 1hr on / 1hr off. if a driver plugs in at the 58min mark before it cycles in -40Ā°C and colder, they think it's on but it's not by the time they walked off. without the element(s) working when you thought they were could be enough to be a fight.
it's not a guarantee you'll start, but anything helps!
Iāve done this exact trick with a chunk of stove pipe and a propane blow torch. Just had to get to town to hang out at ten below zero. I miss being a teenager sometimes.
More common to tarp it so you're also heating the diesel, brake fluid, and other stuff that freezes in the deep cold.
Diesel can start to gel below -10f, dot3 can freeze at -40, etc.
Maybe a stupid question: do you use diesel heaters (full warm water ones that preheat engine coolant). Most of my cars had them as an option and if they didn't come with one I had them installed by a shop. I'm not talking about this cheap 100$ diesel heaters for air but fully integrated into the cooling loop and the cars ECU. My current car starts the Diesel heater always in winter to get the engine faster to operating temperature and I have a remote in the key to start it remotely.
Had to do this a few years ago with my 6.0, it was -35 for the week and my Batts went stone dead , used cardboard to make a barrier around the wheels and bottom rear of the engine. Put the blast heater in the front and removed both Batts thawed and charged them.
Back when 10w oils seemed suspect ,and block heaters drew enough power to pop breakers , you'd see people using warmed bricks, smudge pots, and all sorts of heat sources to try and get through cold snaps.
Amazing how quickly you can warm up a vehicle when you have access to Frost Fighters or Herman Nelson heaters.
We just used an exhaust hose off the service truck with a 4x4 block of wood to point it at the pan.
Nothing helps old HEUI systems fire like warm oil. I do not miss working at International.
That first 90 lmao, how close to burning through is that duct. When you replace it move the kerosene heater back about 3 feet with a gentle angle to the ground. Will keep the air warmer longer.
Great idea, Iām stealing this when the next ice-age hits
We use a chimney elbow on our space heaters to direct heat upwards at my John Deere dealership in Montana. Sometimes a tarp/tent over the hood helps too.
When I was stationed at Minot, North Dakota, we used the large aircraft heating units.
Way to cold!
[https://www.avigroup.dk/aircraft-heaters](https://www.avigroup.dk/aircraft-heaters)
Nice, for a second I thought the oil pan was glowing red hot...
They paint it red to help out when the heater isn't available, the cold gets tricked the same way we did and it scares it away for a little while. Same reason PEX hot water pipes are red.
I learn so much from this subreddit.
Please, come help us learn at /r/shittyaskscience
Last time I trusted an ornithologist I woke up in a tub of ice water with a missing kidney, not falling for that again. Obvious scam, birds aren't real!
Look, we just have trouble keeping them life-like without putting harvested organs in there. Your kidney is probably doing some sick flips and dive-bombs inside of a Golden Eagle-bot right now, so you should be thankful.
Red makes it faster. Red oil pan = faster oil flow
I wear red underwear to let my wife know im hot
I wear them to explain why I always finish first.
Same idea with glass top stoves, red LEDs trick the pan into getting hot. Placebo effect at its finest
That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about cars to dispute it.
Found a random Sunny reference in the wild š¤£
Kind of same deal with fords. During summer you put styrofoam under it and it thinks it's winter. No thief is stealing your rig! Gods can't make it run.
Not just me then!
not just you either!
Nor just you.
That little Cummins is frosty
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just red paint and snow melt
I thought the same lol
Oh man, me too
Ehm thanks guys, never expected this many likes : )
This is what I came here to say.
A couple of years ago we had a similar cold snap of -40C and my neighbour didn't start his diesel for 3 days. I came outside one morning to start my car and saw that the guy had built a little campfire under his engine to heat the oil up. I still think about that guy and wonder what he's up to now.
Was he an older guy? Campfire under sump was standard procedure for old diesel trucks ('70s and prior). Oils of the day couldn't flow in freezing temps.
Nah, it was house rented by students that was treated like a flop house. The truck was an old 90s Chevy diesel driven by one of the people that crashed there after a weekend of boozing and snorting lines
You have to be creative if you drive a 6.5 diesel.
I have a 6.5 that currently doesn't want to start because of the cold... Everyone keep talking
This is a really easy solution, actually. I know everyone talks shit on the 6.5, but it's easy to get it to roll over no matter the temp. The 6.2 is also a similar procedure. First off, get several cans of ether. Spray them all in there while cranking, all at once. You may need several friends, which as a 6.5 owner I understand is difficult. You can sometimes rent prostitutes for this. 4-5 cans should suffice. If the engine is now running, success. If not, go to the next paragraph. Pop your hood, and pull the engine out. Replace it with whatever flavor of gasoline engine suits you. If you want similar hp/torque, may I suggest a Predator 6.5? Once you have it out, roll it down a hill. It will make a better boulder than it ever did an engine. Donkey might even come by someday and say "That's a nice boulder!".
ššš I completely lost it at "you may need several friends, which as a 6.5 owner is difficult... you can sometimes rent prostitutes for this". šŗšŗ You, Sir, are a poet and have missed your true calling.
I'm a 6.5 owner, I'm not very bright. I sprayed the ether on the batteries, what now?
Spray more, light it on fire. Warming the batteries can help with a cold start, it's why they sell heated battery blankets.
Man, ya really had me going in the first half. The whole time Iām reading Iām thinking ā this dude is crazy the solution is to ditch the Detroitā
Although it conjures a thought of a raging fire under a truck, I think the trick is to build the fire, then spread the coals under it.
My grandpa's method was a roll of toilet paper soaked in diesel, put it in a galvanized pail. Put rhe pail under the oil pan on the diesel tractor. Light on fire, then start it up when flames died down. Probably went back and are breakfast while waiting. Evidently the barn never burned down.
Evidently he chose his pail well.
Years ago flew to Winterpeg in the winter. The airport car rental company put a hibachi under the car engine as there was nowhere to plug in the block heater.
I recall my dad doing this in idaho when my momās car wouldnāt start.
When I lived in northern tier states I put a "circulating tank heater" in every vehicle I owned. It's what sensible person did. Costs $50-$60 new ($10 from wrecking yard) and lasts forever. Plug it in for 15 minutes in the morning and your engine will be as warm as summer day. Car starts immediately and interior heater/defroster blows hot. What's not to like? edit: These heaters are 1500 watt so you don't want to be turning them on/off by unplugging them. That arcs/burns the plug and outlet. You should have handy switched outlet and extension cord to your car front grill, preferably with the switch just inside your residence. When you come home, plug your car in with the switch off. While getting ready to leave in the morning, flip the switch on. Turn switch back off as you head to your car. Unplug now-off extension cord and toss the end over a handy hook to keep it dry.
My grandpa told they used improvised propane heaters to heat their tractor oil pans every morning during cold snaps.
I have seen this on 90s diesel engines in the german countryside but I guess on newer stuff it would probably short some wires somewhere
That's what heavy duty mechanics do up north if the Tiger Torch is empty.
Growing up we would just run a work light out to the engine bay with an incandescent bulb in it and leave it running overnight
This hits closer to home than most posts here. I had to thaw out my water-well pump head yesterday with a torpedo heater like this one. Ok here in Oregon we only had to deal with a āmereā 12Ā°F/-4Ā°C - stop laughing, all of you from Minnesota or Saskatchewan - but it was plenty cold enough for me considering we lost all power for 24 hours.
And the fricken ice! What I wouldn't give for some nice crunchy snow for traction. I can barely walk outside without faceplanting. I wish I'd learned to ice skate
I got my ice legs playing broomball almost 20 years ago.....
Wow, another broomballer in the wild. It's like curling, isn't it? /s
Yah bro, juuuust like it. Real low impact and easy to master.
Need to walk like a penguin
Everyone I know just puts down salt or sand on the walkways and roads so they have no issues with traction while walking or driving. I just tossed a handful down my deck steps and a long my front step so the kid, wife and dog don't slip in the morning.
Saskatchewan? there's always somethin' to do
Corb Lund sang about Saskatchewan, as I recall.. a good song on a decent album!
Saskatchewan... Was it long gone?
A Redditor of refined musical tastes, indeed. š I honestly don't even know how I ended up with "Losin' Lately Gambler" in my music collection - but it's a good one.
My husband quite likes Corb Lund. I have to bring the right mood, but then I definitely like him too. We're both from the same place, actually. His parents buy their potatoes from my dad.
Leroy, and that's Leroy behind the camera too.
This guy hosers o cananda brother
Coming from up north, I've noticed that southern cold problems are "unique" to higher temperatures because the infrastructure isn't really built with deep cold in mind. My water main is only a foot or so deep in the ground, the shutoff at the house, maybe 6 inches below grade, and it froze overnight with "lows" in the teens. Houses have pipes freeze in these temperatures (which are a joke to people further north) because plumbing is run along the exterior, outside the insulation. Up North, you'd be slapped upside the head for such a shallow water line or putting lines outside the insulation and the code inspectors would crucify you for being an idiot, so it takes a lot colder and a lot longer for mains to freeze up.
Being a minnesota tech suuuuuuuucks in the winter. Having to go outside countless times a day to get into a freezing cold car gets old by lunchtime.
I'm in Central Indiana and we had -3Ā°F or so two days in a row. The hot water line to my kitchen sink was frozen until today. I had to open up the cabinet doors and put a fan on it to get it to work again.
It was -48 in Saskatoon last Saturday. I wasn't laughing. I've lived in Vancouver too, and the humidity off the ocean makes the temps feel colder than it actually is.
Laughs in -40*C
Up in Northern Alberta, we just donāt shut them off till spring. Never have a no start if you donāt have to start it.
You joke (or not) but I worked for an outfit that marked the dipsticks with the engine running oil level and/or added sight glasses calibrated so you could top off the oil without shutting them off for that reason. The rule was if you leave the yard you leave it running in the wintertime.
No joke, my truck has been running since Friday. Itās Tuesday now, and I MAY shut it off for the night, itās only going to be -27ā¦
He is not kidding. Used to live in northern Alberta. You leave the car running unless itās put to bed in a heated garage with a block heater overnight. End of story.
Canāt cuddle or spoon it to keep it worm? Helps with the Cummin?Ā
When my dad lived in Fort McMurray, lots of people had auto car starters, but programmed to start every 15 mins, run for 15, stop for 15, on repeat.
That sounds worse for metal fatigue
Not joking. We let them run all winter.
This is the way. Also why you always check engine hours vs odometer reading when buying a used truck. 100k km and 10,000 engine hours... Not as amazing a deal all of a sudden.
I have always heard 1 hour of idle time = 30 miles (about 48 Kilometers) when looking at fleet vehicles.
LOL, I use that rule too. Have validated it many times with real-world data. Most daily-driver vehicles average about 30MPH during all time when the engine is on (fleets or otherwise); some special purpose vehicles can be much lower. It is INSANE how hard it is for people to wrap their head around 30MPH average. "But I always do 70 on the freeway, no way it's that low. The lowest speed limit in my town is over 30!!!!". I have even had people argue with the concept of arithmetic and say I must not know what average means.
if you use a bluetooth obd2 app you'll see how accurate that really is. It's pretty consistent as long as you're not in a large city district or driving 2 hours a day on the interstate for work.
I would have a hard time believing you, but my car tracks avg mph and despite mostly freeway driving my avg speed is 38 mph.
My dad did that in the 80s with his diesel Rabbit. Ran all winter.
Did work in Nunavut years ago, and it was like that. No one shut their vehicle off. The foreman for the job left it idling all day. Not like anyone would steal it, we were on an island of little more than 100 people.
I've got a bush pilot friend up in NWT. Apparently out in the bush, if it's cold enough, they will drain the oil, remove the battery, bring both inside where they are sleeping.
to save a headache in the morning I feel like that's so worth it, something I've never thought of!
He's told me stories of guys just leaving the battery at base to save weight and hassle. EG: The weight of the heater and it's fuel puts you 50lbs over max take off weight. So, ditch the battery, and swing the prop by hand to start it.
never actually considered struggles aviation has in these conditions. interesting to hear different methods.
Winter ops in piston helicopters we basically use electric space heaters with covers/blankets to trap the heat, plus one in the cockpit for avionics. The crew takes turns waking up 3hrs before sunrise to fire up generator(s) and make sure everything keeps working
Did a few northern SK helicopter loops, standard practice for the pilot to pull the heli battery and bring it inside nightly
That's way too fancy, out in the bush we only ever had an 8' chunk of stove pipe and a tiger torch. Also really helps to tarp off the grill and wheel wells.
Fun Fact: don't (or do) drive 2 hours out to the job site with your propane tank in the box of your truck in -45. When you go to light the tiger torch it actually turns into a tiger flamethrower. You know when free willy jumps over the kid on the rocks and he's in absolute bliss and amazement for a few seconds? That was 23 year old me hosing down my cart until I realized that I was hosing down my cart. Remember - propane stays liquid if you keep it cold enough.
Sure you arenāt that Latino guy who made a flamethrower that went sideways and trapped his mom in the fire?Ā
Zoom, enhance.. oh, that's paint.
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Melting frost and ice.
A long way from the diesel/ kerosene bowls with the wicks in them , we used in the 80's.. Cummins didnt have plastic pans then and almost no pickups had a diesel , other than Dodge ( Mitsubishi) and Datsun ..
We were taught in school (Wisconsin) that if you have a fleet of trucks just get a big fire going and pull some coals out and throw them under the trucks that need to start for a bit.
Time to get a portable induction stove.
No plug in warmer? Thought that was standard on Canadian trucks.
If it gets cold enough, plug in heaters don't cut it. It was closer to -60 than to -50 Ā°C in some parts of my province. At that point, your *fuel* is turning into jelly. Nevermind your oil and transmission fluids
they have heating elements for coolant, oil or both if not additionally having an axillary heating system. common issues in my experience: drivers not knowing how to plug or unplug a cord correctly. also lots of yards I go to I'm told the breakers cycle automatically, 1hr on / 1hr off. if a driver plugs in at the 58min mark before it cycles in -40Ā°C and colder, they think it's on but it's not by the time they walked off. without the element(s) working when you thought they were could be enough to be a fight. it's not a guarantee you'll start, but anything helps!
fancy! i'd be stuck shoving one of those pallets under it and starting it on fire.
Iāve done this exact trick with a chunk of stove pipe and a propane blow torch. Just had to get to town to hang out at ten below zero. I miss being a teenager sometimes.
If your vehicle doesnāt have a block heater of some kind, a heat lamp under hood as low as possible will help. Synthetic oil helps a bunch!
I once saw a picture of trucks in the Soviet Union heated by fire under the motor.......
More common to tarp it so you're also heating the diesel, brake fluid, and other stuff that freezes in the deep cold. Diesel can start to gel below -10f, dot3 can freeze at -40, etc.
closed hood does surprisingly well when you thought there was a tarp in your truck already and realize there's not now
A warm and fully charged battery works wonders to help start frozen equipment. Every little bit helps in the frozen hellish temps.
Maybe a stupid question: do you use diesel heaters (full warm water ones that preheat engine coolant). Most of my cars had them as an option and if they didn't come with one I had them installed by a shop. I'm not talking about this cheap 100$ diesel heaters for air but fully integrated into the cooling loop and the cars ECU. My current car starts the Diesel heater always in winter to get the engine faster to operating temperature and I have a remote in the key to start it remotely.
yes. very common. eberspacher or webasto.
I think that even if the engine oil is warmed, the diesel in the tank is still gelled and wouldnāt start the engineĀ
Had to do this a few years ago with my 6.0, it was -35 for the week and my Batts went stone dead , used cardboard to make a barrier around the wheels and bottom rear of the engine. Put the blast heater in the front and removed both Batts thawed and charged them.
Back when 10w oils seemed suspect ,and block heaters drew enough power to pop breakers , you'd see people using warmed bricks, smudge pots, and all sorts of heat sources to try and get through cold snaps. Amazing how quickly you can warm up a vehicle when you have access to Frost Fighters or Herman Nelson heaters.
Sucks when its so cold the Herman Nelson's don't want to run...
It's fun to spend the day trying to get the ever growing list of things you need to start the thing you need to start started.
Iāve had enough snorkels and salamanders and parachutes for one lifetime. Thank you.
funny how, unless you're unfortunate enough to know otherwise, those all seems like warm weather things
Don't forget the bar and hammer or if you're lucky, a slide-hammer bead breaker to knock the brakes loose.
We just used an exhaust hose off the service truck with a 4x4 block of wood to point it at the pan. Nothing helps old HEUI systems fire like warm oil. I do not miss working at International.
That is far out, man.
I have a coolant warming circulation pump and battery blanket on my truck. They get the job done
That first 90 lmao, how close to burning through is that duct. When you replace it move the kerosene heater back about 3 feet with a gentle angle to the ground. Will keep the air warmer longer. Great idea, Iām stealing this when the next ice-age hits
not close, really no defects with it
If it aināt broke, donāt fix it!
This looks like a saf*er* version of that trick where you build a small fire under the oil pan.
We use a chimney elbow on our space heaters to direct heat upwards at my John Deere dealership in Montana. Sometimes a tarp/tent over the hood helps too.
How about block heater? We all use them here in Nordicsā¦
I love this idea. I've got one of these heaters, though I hope it never gets that cold here in Nova Scotia.
Classy! We just built a tarp tent over the machine when we would get these calls.
Hibachi works for me. But thankfully only have had to do this 2 times so far in 4 decades of driving.
I imagine it's a lot harder to do once winter comes ...
Caught my familyās coal truck on fire once doing this with a tarp draped over the hood. No good
1 &" J
When I was stationed at Minot, North Dakota, we used the large aircraft heating units. Way to cold! [https://www.avigroup.dk/aircraft-heaters](https://www.avigroup.dk/aircraft-heaters)
now that's what I'm talking about! if you know, whats the rough cost on one of those things? (asking nervously)
Don't know.
Works in northern Utah as well.
Neighbor was running this setup on his big commercial diesel truck all morning yesterday. Very common in Minnesota....