Our nighttime temps this past week and expected through this weekend were in the -15 to -30 range, and daytime highs rarely went over zero. Two hundred yards down the road from where I live, a crew is slowly working with a large crane, a very large crane, setting the precast walls of a Superior Walls concrete foundation. The engines in the pickup trucks parked there run all day long, providing a warm shelter for respite from the biting cold. They are using a high end surveying instrument, a total station, for precisely setting the parts, and fingers are getting cold.
I’ll do a Superior for my next job, but not in this kind of weather.
Edited 1/24/2004 10:49:57 AM ET by Mr. Micro
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I know that if I'm doing any outside work here in Alaska during the winter I add 25% to my labor bid. We are either removing snow or dealing with the cold. I try to build a tent in a corner of the job where we can get by the heater and warm up a little.
I usually work for an hour and then warm up for 15 min. or I make up some excuse to go for a ride in the truck. Which means that the guys are working 30 min. and then standing by the heater for 30 min. as soon as I leave.
Dave
So, give us a weather report from up there. Here, the wind is blowing 15 to 20 mph, and it is as high this sunny afternoon as it is going to get, about 8 below.