Fall season Approaching

Speaking of sweat.

You cannot ever work up a sweat when it's -50 (Or anything below freezing really...) that means slowing your work output and literally taking it easy on a task in which you would break a sweat.

You will know that you are working but not so hard and fast that you sweat. There is a balance you will seek between the cold outside and the output of heat inside of you.

Here is another secret.

You must finish your work and BE INSIDE before YOU START TO SHIVER. Once you shiver, that tells me your body has used up food as a metabolize heat source and now is working your muscles trying to shake heat out of them. You chill even faster in exposure. Once the shivers come on, you need to not only get inside the building or bunk and get warm, you also demand a hot good meal to replace what you burned off. Ramen is not going to help you here. Think steak and eggs.

Keep water in drinking form on hand always and 6 hershey bars chocolate. That is the fastest way to get some sort of heat into you temporarly and clear your mind from befuddled and confused thinking that precedes hypothermia and death. You would have bought yourself a hour at most with that candy bar. That would be the time to secure a proper meal. You will know you have had enough when you get warm again after eating enough of it.

But the key is not to let yourself get so cold to shiver. It also is never to sweat.

Finally but not least, if something happens and you get wet your first job for life itself is to change out of those wet clothes and get dry. All the way down with a fresh set of new clothes and find a warm place. You are pretty much done for the day.

 

Finally but not least, if something happens and you get wet your first job for life itself is to change out of those wet clothes and get dry. All the way down with a fresh set of new clothes and find a warm place. You are pretty much done for the day.[/QUOTE]

I know at least that much. I read Jack London

 

Actually it was on I-78, not I-81.

I now have a very nice sheepskin bomber jacket with zip-off hood, and a 8-hide sheepskin blanket. Unfortunately, I have had to keep the blanket in a bag so far, since it's been WAY too warm to use since I got it.

 

The best jacket i ever bought was at a truck stop. i still have it to this day, it didn't matter how cold it got that jacket kept me feeling well. it was my legs and face though that would feel the cold.

 

I have a very cheap safety yellow windbreaker with reflective stripes that is surprisingly warm, and much easier to store than my heavy winter jacket with safety vest over it. It's not good enough to trust my life to it if I get stuck in a blizzard somewhere and the truck heater fails, but if I am only out of the truck a couple minutes, it's enough.

 

My dickies jacket was cheap and it is good enough 80% of the time. Add a hoodie if needed. My carhardt heavy winter jacket is good for extreme. But that’s very rare.

 

i will. what are some store names you suggest? i don't think any cabella's are neaer where i live.

 

I have heard that Tractor Supply carries high quality winter wear. I cannot say this is true from experience, but Tractor Supply is a big company. There's probably one near you.