On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:19:00 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

Gotta go buy a new battery for the JD tractor I guess.

Went to start it up yesterday to do some clean up work from plowing and
I think the battery was frozen. When it's as cold as it's been lately I
can usually get it to fire up by putting a small battery charger on it
for five or ten minutes to warm it up a little. This time however the
charger displays "Full" after about 1 second of trying to charge and
automatically stops trying to charge. Battery voltage is low though,
about 11.8 volts, so I know it isn't charged.

Hate this cold. I can deal with the occasional snowstorm but the cold
is getting to be too much.

I've had the same thing happen with my digital charger.

Yesterday I went to the doc about a pain in my butt, which he diagnosed as ishiogluteal bursitis.
Then he asked me if I'd been sitting a lot more lately. I've been able to get out and play golf
twice in the past month. Yesterday I took the dogs out and we'd not gone two blocks when one started
licking at her paws. Just too damn cold for them.