Farm Blog

Yesterday morning we had an official -34 degrees in the town just south of us and our outdoor thermometer said the same when we got up.  Now that is cold!  Sharon went to take the boys to hockey practice yesterday morning and the diesel truck gelled up half way down the lane.  The truck had 50/50 fuel which is 50% #1 diesel, and 50% #2 diesel.  #1 has a "cloud" point of -40 and #2 is much higher, so you end up with -20's or so, but not -30's...  So I fired up the skid loader which runs #1 only to pull the truck down the lane.  That then gelled and would only idle back to its storage location.  That left the truck stuck in the lane and a hay customer on the way.  Luckily my brother was over and we used his truck to pull my truck back down the lane.  Then Sharon and I used our 4x4 "farm" truck  to run to town to purchased a torpedo heater to put on equipment that has frozen.   The hay customer was able to get down the lane and back out in 4x4.  Now today that it's only -2 we can work on getting the skid loader running, the lane cleared, and the truck running.  Looks like we'll miss church today...