if i owned a diesel i would plug it in at anything below about 20.  but then again where i live even gas vehicles have block heaters, oil pan heaters, and battery trickle chargers or blankets

cummins uses a grid heater instead of glow plugs i believe

#2 diesel wax can still gel and clog lines and filters; no technology can overcome that (except heated fuel lines i guess). Even #1 diesel will start to gel at -40 or so. Cold start reliability was a large reason I didn’t buy a diesel F350, as I occasionally need to leave my truck at trailheads for days at a time, in…

yeah my life would be a lot more expensive without a truck. well water in our area is really bad so a lot of people haul water in tanks from town. delivery of 600 gal is $81. when i haul it it is $16. wedon’t have trash service here either, so it gives me a convenient way to take trash to the dump. i also haul…

my f350 crew cab long bed cost me 5k cash.  and i need it probably 10x a month.  sure, i could probably get what i need done with a trailer, but i’d rather not put the stress on the transmission of my DD, i don’t like driving with a trailer if i don’t have to, and i would have had to buy a trailer anyway!

but it does get that hot

siberia and alaska are two of those places though. OK, maybe not 110, but we regularly see temperatures colder than -40F and warmer than 90F

you are mistaken.  siberia has a continental climate type, like chicago, but more extreme.  cold down below -40 is common, as is warm temperatures in the summer, higher than 90.  much of their rail line is also built on permafrost or otherwise frost heave susceptible soil types.

in fairbanks ak i have seen as low as -58F and as high as +101F and I have never heard of any issues with our trains

yeah we have trains in alaska where it was -57 just a couple weeks ago, and they don’t shut down for this crap.  hell they barely shut down for magnitude 7 earthquakes.

thats not the temperature though

always seems to be nice and warm in alaska whenever you guys get hit with this stuff.  it was -57F (before wind chill) a couple weeks ago, today it is +22F and I am doing chores in a t-shirt.

why lie about how cold it is?  winnipeg is -32C

keeping with the same theme, alaskans eat more ice cream per capita than any other state

i keep a bottle of bear spray by the door for just that reason.  i have a handgun, but my wife is more comfortable with bear spray.  we also have 6 dogs...

So bear with me, but I carry a 10mm a lot. Not around town, its not sitting out at home, but when I’m in bear country I have it on my waist. I work and recreate in wilderness alaska (my area is just west of ANWR). I used to carry a shotgun with slugs or a 45/70 but I found that I was often leaving it in the boat or…

every encounter with a milkshape ipa is an accident

First of all moose are straight wimps and can easily be killed with a handgun and have been before for sure. Second, using a handgun against a bear is never your first choice, but many many bears have been killed by them. I used to carry a shotgun (I do scientific research in wilderness alaska) but found that I always…

leave me in the woods the wolves and ravens will handle it