.....when my truck is plugged in? with winter moving in its starting to get
cold in montana, and its time to start plugging my truck in. this also
means some hunting trips in -20/-30 degree weather where ill need to plug
the truck into the generator and im wondering what else ill need to wrap
with additional heat sources.
thanks,

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Carolina Watercraft Works - 19 Nov 2006 18:59 GMT
In those temps...I'd wrap my arse if I were out in it!!

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> .....when my truck is plugged in? with winter moving in its starting to
> get cold in montana, and its time to start plugging my truck in. this
> also means some hunting trips in -20/-30 degree weather where ill need to
> plug the truck into the generator and im wondering what else ill need to
> wrap with additional heat sources.
> thanks,
Nathan In Montana - 19 Nov 2006 20:52 GMT
> In those temps...I'd wrap my arse if I were out in it!!
in those temps ill hunt from the dining room table on my camper through the
window. :-)

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Stormin Mormon - 20 Nov 2006 15:20 GMT
Reposted (below) from an email list I read.

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You can't shout down a troll.
You have to starve them.
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> In those temps...I'd wrap my arse if I were out in it!!
in those temps ill hunt from the dining room table on my camper
through the
window. :-)

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In a message dated 10/7/2004 1:57:17 AM Central Standard Time,
writes:
"Going hunting" involves "getting there" ... and getting there
usually
means a considerable amount of travel, and expenditure of resources,
including gas and oil ...
I hunt off my front porch or the back...depending, in my fuzzy jammies
with
my leopard fake fur house shoes on. It usually takes me about 30 -40
minutes
to harvest my deer and then I get up out of my lawn chair and go back
inside
where it's warm and go back to bed. I don't usually get up before 7
or 8
because that's about the time the hunters who've been in the woods
since 3 am are
beginning to get a terminal case of numb-butt from sitting on the
tubular
steel benches in their tree stands after they've climbed 20 foot high
on them.
So it's due to this "movement" that spooks the deer that the hunters
haven't
ACTUALLY seen that sends them my way. So papa, the extent of my
travel to deer
hunt is to crawl out of bed, the 14 steps to the adjoining bathroom,
then into
the next room to the fridge for some chocolate milk which I nuke til
the
handle melts off the cup, head out the front or back door (depending
on which door
my gun is sittin at), stagger out to my chair and wait. Then at 9 or
so
when the great white hunter and his band of merry men come in to tell
their long
harvestless tales of great hunt and adventure...I manage to interrupt
the
conversation somewhere between me putting the sausage, grits and gravy
and the
biscuits on the table to ask one of the burley gentlemen when they get
finished
if they don't mind, take the tractor out to the corner of the woods
lot or out
by the dozer pile and pick up my harvest and hang it in the barn for
me so I
can process it. It's a lot of fun to be in a position where I can
see all
their faces as all the blood completely drains from their heads. At
this
point I've literally seen some totally inhale a biscuit, then there's
the ones who
absolutely refuse to believe that I got one, and always the few that
no
matter what was on the table would simply lose their appetite. Yes,
I do love
hunting season...SO MUCH FUN! Not the hunting...just watching a
listening to
the hunters.
Lynnda
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Roy - 19 Nov 2006 19:04 GMT
> .....when my truck is plugged in? with winter moving in its starting to
> get cold in montana, and its time to start plugging my truck in. this
> also means some hunting trips in -20/-30 degree weather where ill need to
> plug the truck into the generator and im wondering what else ill need to
> wrap with additional heat sources.
> thanks,
All the stock plug does is heat water. With a gen I'd put in something to
heat the oil in the pan and perhaps a blanket to toss over the engine.
Roy
Nathan In Montana - 19 Nov 2006 20:51 GMT
> All the stock plug does is heat water.
i usually start plugging my truck in anytime temps drop below freezing. one
thing ive noticed is that no matter what the temp, if i crank the truck
after being plugged in i dont get the white smoke that i get when i crank
the truck in the cold without having been plugged in.
> With a gen I'd put in something to heat the oil in the pan and perhaps a
> blanket to toss over the engine.
what would you recommend for heating the oil pan? what about the fuel tank?
thanks,

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Denny - 19 Nov 2006 22:09 GMT
>> All the stock plug does is heat water.
>
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>
> what would you recommend for heating the oil pan?
You shouldn't need it if you run synthetic but if you want to use one I've
used the magnetic heaters that just stick on the oil pan. They work great on
farm equipment when I forget to plug them in...
what about the fuel tank?
I've never seen anything other than the fuel heaters warmed by coolant and
those were only on the big trucks.
Denny
> thanks,
Stormin Mormon - 20 Nov 2006 15:20 GMT
I'd have to guess oil pan, oil, and engine block.

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You can't shout down a troll.
You have to starve them.
.
.....when my truck is plugged in? with winter moving in its starting
to get
cold in montana, and its time to start plugging my truck in. this
also
means some hunting trips in -20/-30 degree weather where ill need to
plug
the truck into the generator and im wondering what else ill need to
wrap
with additional heat sources.
thanks,

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jbohren - 25 Nov 2006 09:59 GMT
> .....when my truck is plugged in? with winter moving in its starting to
> get cold in montana, and its time to start plugging my truck in. this
> also means some hunting trips in -20/-30 degree weather where ill need to
> plug the truck into the generator and im wondering what else ill need to
> wrap with additional heat sources.
> thanks,
Here in Anchorage, we get by with just the block heater. In Fairbanks, they
use an oil pan heater and a blanket for the battery. You also should look
into synthetic oil and make damn sure the coolant is up to snuff. In
extreme cold (-30) most people don't shut vehicles off unless its plugged
in, especially diesels.