REALLY Cold weather

[BARE5]

Thermometer in the pole building read -39 Monday night. It's temps like those that I get worried about . Friday going to be 39!

[bsloop]

Definitely some cold numbers the past couple days.

One thing to keep in mind, just like when temps approach freezing and people start to freak out about block freezing - it takes time for the entire block to reach those temps.
Remember general rule is 24 degrees for 24 hours to freeze a block with water.

That being said, I do predict frozen block stories will be high next spring.
Half a$$ winterizations where they didn't drain the block before adding anti-freeze or didn't run enough AF though to get a high concentration will freeze at a much higher temp than printed on the bottle. They slipped by in warm to average years but..........

All the more reason I preach: Drain, fill, drain.
Whatever mixture is left will have close to the same corrosion protection properties in the space as if it was filled with AF.

[bjames]

Try living up here in Canada, although -16 is cold (-22C), temps here go as low as -40C (-50 with wind chill), never had a problem, like Bsloop mentioned, it takes a while for the material deep within the hull to drop to those temps.

[mzimme]

Who has ski safe insurance? They have freeze protection. That was one of my deciding factors.

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[atihanyi]

Ive nevere heard of ski safe . What is it an who underwrites it ?

[mzimme]

Originally Posted by atihanyi

Ive nevere heard of ski safe . What is it an who underwrites it ?

Sullivan & Strauss Agency from Lake Success NY. They operate SkiSafe.com or Sea-Safe. They are underwritten by AXIS Reinsurance.

[DHPRO]

Here's one for ya! It was -35 at our camp...

[uplander]

that is cold

[thatsmrmastercraft]

-30 last weekend............40 here today. What a difference.

[scott023]

Originally Posted by thatsmrmastercraft

-30 last weekend............40 here today. What a difference.

Same as us. The extremes are way hard to deal with.