until the temperature gets under 80 degrees. No cutting, no splitting and no stacking. I think I saw 108 for the "feel like temp" today around 4pm. It's almost 9 and I just went outside and it feels like a sauna. Glad I have ac in the shop.
I hear ya bang too hot! But here on the lake it was 80.when I got home from work and amazingly enough no summer people had arrived yet so i had some long lengths to cut and it felt good to fire up my toy chainsaw. Got it all cut and under cover...hey once you're sweaty you're sweaty and I needed a reason to use my outdoor shower...anyway
Bloody hot here in WV the past few days too...supposed to be 10 degrees cooler with t-storms. This kind of weather makes me appreciate my cushy office job...especially since I took the day off to pour concrete footings for my new wood stove project.
92ºF +soupy humid yesterday and I had to move some oak logs and long rounds with the tractor. I was going to cut them where they were, split them and then move them to the stacking area but that just isn't happening any time soon. I always used to be able to work in the heat. Stay hydrated and every fourth or fifth drink a gatoraid or something for electrolytes. Yestreday I was finishing backfilling a trench to plant rhubarb next Spring and I went in to take another of many short breaks and I couldn't read. I couldn't mentally pronounce the words. It was the dammest thing. I went and sat in the shade for an hour and cooled off a bit more. Man it creeps up on ya.
Yeah, as i have gotten older, I've learned to beware the heat/humidity combination. High dew points just suck the life out of me. Supposed to be a change in the air this weekend into next week, here in the northeast. Looking forward to that. Mmmmmm rhubarb. I have several plantings. The rains of the past few months have made them very happy. I have multiple bags of it chopped and frozen and, the plants keep sending up stalks. I think one more good harvest will be the end of it for this year. The stalks will begin getting woody pretty soon. So there is my tie-in for the wood pile forum Sent from my SM-T280 using Tapatalk
I ain't doin' niffin till Sept 20th! Too bangin' hot. Ain't even started the 661 after hit come out da shop.
Went for a long ride in car and thought about all those years I lived without air conditioning. Really happy to have it now, epsecially in weather like we've been having. Rainy this morning
I was just this morning discussing the extreme heat with my grandson as we were riding in his air conditioned car. I recalled that I didn't have a house or car with ac until I was out of high school and I can't remember the heat being a problem. I also described how when I started driving a tractor trailer in '74 that we had no ac or power steering and most of the trucks were cabover and you sat above the engine which seemed to increase the temperature about 10 or 15 degrees. Things improved greatly over the years but I can't remember heat being a big problem back then, just a little uncomfortable. Now I complain about heat when I walk outside from the house to the shop.
Grabbed this yesterday off our morning safety brief. We all got a laugh when we realized that this was included. But I'm sure we all checked things out as the day went on.
I've had a light headache a couple different days here lately, I drink alot of water--but, with this humidity I sweat buckets!! Going to step it up on the H2O.
That is easy to relate to. yooperdave will understand this but we never owned a car with air conditioning until we left the UP of Michigan. You just do not need it living up there especially if you live close to Lake Michigan or Lake Superior. Driving trucks? We simply rolled down the windows, but that had adverse problems crop up later with bad ears from all the noise. I also put in several years in a shop; no windows, which I hated. Dang it got hot in there and on really humid days the cement floors would be wet it got so bad. Really happy I don't have to do that any longer. Probably the worst though was milking cows in hot, humid weather especially if you got some rain and the cows got muddy too. Tails get wet and tails don't hold still. Like it or not, the udder is placed on a cow down low; like about the same level as the bottom of that tail so guess where you'd get slapped.
I agree bang. Heck, I quit riding the motorcycle to work for the past 2 weeks! I'd rather sit in the ac for the 35 minute commute.
