The eternal question of kilts in winter

[WClarkB]

As a scientist, I enjoyed reading the paper quite a bit, and thought it generally a well organized experiment. I think there should have been a control experiment done with just the boxer shorts (no kilt) to see just how well it insulates, but I can understand the experimenter's reluctance to volunteer for this aspect of the experiment.

I think obviously the control should regimentally UN-kilted! But the variables of heat loss are several: \
the heat gradiant from skin to the environment
the convection loss from the movement of the medium (air)
radiation loss to a cold surface which is therefore NOT reflected by environmental temps
evaporative loss, increased in a dry environment

Kilt physics are undoubtedly helpful in evaporative loss and radiation loss but a wee breeze can sure "cool things down" a mite

[Kilted Magyar]

Wonderful! This appeals to the "Engineer" in me. Now, about climate change...

[andyfg]

TartanHiker, I am not sure how I missed this significant publication when it was first posted but somehow I did. I am very impressed by the methodology and science involved, the seriousness with which you approached what could have been a joke of a subject, and the thoroughness of your presentation of your data and findings, and ultimate conclusions.
jeff

I also missed it. Great piece of research. Very informative.

[Riverkilt]

Missed it too. Thanks for ressurecting it and welcome to the forum.

Makes sense to me from my experience kilting in cold weather. One test you didn't do though is what happens to the underkilt temp when a gentleman walks up to a urinal in a cold National Parks rest room and raises the front of the kilt...from personal experience I know it gets cold FAST. Would be interesting to know how long it takes to build up to the pre-rest room temp under kilt when the job is complete.

[SoulFyre777]

<snip> Now, about climate change... <snip>

....Oh dear Lord....

[NewEnglander]

....Oh dear Lord....

it's His fault???

[Smayniac]

I went tree hunting today, kilted(pictures to follow, they're on another computer). I was quite comfortable except for my wet toes, which I have trouble blaming on a kilt that just reaches my knees.
Bob

[mrtackytn]

Welcome to X-Marks - from Music City, USA - Nashville, TN !!

[Lachlan09]

Dear Jock Scott

To take you back to how it used to be, go to my album section, in my album about my family.

In there is a photo, taken by a family friend in the winter of 1941/42, of my dad’s family house in Kirkmichael, Perthshire. They had to get out through the upper floor windows !

Where do you see villages in Scotland getting that nowadays ?

BTW one time my dad was out the back of that house, in the shed, getting logs for the fire, when out of the dark there was a sudden whoosh ! of a shape leaping past his shoulder. When he turned round, a Highland wildcat was bounding off through the snow. “Touch Not The Cat Bot A Glove” indeed !

As a wee boy, I remember a wildcat pelt gracing the back of a big leather chair in my room, but it wasn’t that one.

I loved going to Kirkmichael (locally pronounced Kirkmichel with i as in pin and ch as in loch) with the lingering smell of wood-smoke hanging in the air, but it could be creepy with all those pine trees and shadyness ! There was an old Perthshire writer and published author called (Struan ?) Robertson whose house was called Straloch, who used to regale my brother and I of dark tales of Highland vampires and creatures of the shadows and claimed to have been bitten on the leg by such a creature while climbing through the window of a deserted bothy (even showed us the old bite marks on his leg ! scary stuff ! - ha ha - he had probably bitten himself with his false teeth !).

If there was a Scottish vampire or werewolf tale, where would you set the story ?

[Lachlan09]

bump -sorry !