Plus, **** breaks in deep cold!!!
I worked one winter in Gallup, NM and the temp bottomed out several times at nearly 40 below. Diesel and hydraulic fluid look like jello at that temp, even gas engines didn't want to start without coercing...I had to park the 850 JD dozer on some old truck tires to keep it from freezing to the ground.
And don't even ask how many water pumps we blew apart from that effort...some of those were massive cast iron (high pressure) deals, and it would simply stretch the studs and pop the heads off the end...
What made that worse was it would swing from that cold to the low 40s around 11am, things would thaw up, get muddy and slippery, leather boots would get soaked, then about 3pm it would start swinging the other way and those water-soaked boots would become blocks of ice with feet included.
The guys would let the equipment idle overnight to keep things moving, or we would spend hours the next morning thawing things out with those big weedburner propane torches...
There is nothing fun about working outside after the temp goes below about 20 degrees...let alone sub-zero.
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