Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Be Careful Using Equipment In The Cold

The cold may have been a contributing factor, my take is, it was ready to break.

Plenty of forklifts running around Fairbanks lifting heavy schit in cold weather.

I have never heard anyone say don't take your forklift out if its -30.

Steel dont care, oil, hydraulics, transmissions, they dont like it much. Either leave it run or let it warm up for a long time.

Yep ironbender……..iron, carbon steel gets pretty brittle, doesn’t bend (see what I did there) very well below a -30 F.

I know that we were cautioned about ferrous metals losing much of their flexibility when colder than -30 F. memtb