This guy's bothered by the heat

maple flats · June 09, 2005, 05:11:48 PM

I don't see how you southerners can take the heat with high humidity. I am almost useless when the temp hits 95 F. when the humidity is high. I would sooner work in zero degrees. I work all day and keep comfortable as long as I can keep out of the wind ALL winter. Even at -20 drgrees F but I have to go indoors when it hits 95 degrees so that I can enjoy the AC. I mowed the last of my fields this AM but it took all I had and I am in the shade of an oversized canopy roof on my tractor. Now it is 95 or 96 and I loose the rest of the day. No lumber being sawn today. I think I'll go get a COOOLD drink now. :'(

Fla._Deadheader · June 09, 2005, 05:20:51 PM

Most of what few friends I have ( OUTSIDE THE fORUM) won't even consider visiting us in Florida in the summer. They claim they can't stand the heat. :

;D ;D :D :D

maple flats · June 09, 2005, 05:39:16 PM

Never been to Fla. N. Carolina is the farthest south for this Yank. and it wasn't on hot days. Was in Newport News, Va visiting my daughter a few years ago when my son-in-law was in the service. TV kept reporting the temp/humidity index. If I remember it was about 115 in the late afternoon. Thought I had died and ended up in the wrong direction, but couldn't remember what I had done sooo bad to end up there. I'll take sub zero and work from dawn til dusk but of course that is only about 10 hrs in these parts. I can dress for that and still get a lot done. If I stop to study something I need to add a layer and when work resumes I remove the layer again. The hardest part is keeping my hands dry when it is not cold enough, the gloves get wet. When it is cold enough that doesn't happen. 8)

mike_van · June 09, 2005, 05:41:07 PM

Maple Flats, i'm with you - I wish the leaves would start changing color tonight, frost tomorrow night, & snow on Sunday. Sick of summer already in Ct. >:(

hiya · June 09, 2005, 05:47:58 PM

I'm the other way. I like the heat. Got tired or the cold in Pa. lost too muvh work in the winters. compressers, nail guns ,ect. freeze up. My fingers never did like being cold. :

. I can't stand ac, it makes my head stuffed up, makes me miserable.
Richard

Weldrite · June 09, 2005, 06:53:08 PM

Maple Flats, I'm with you too. I will work all day in the winter but when it starts hitting 80F I'm done. Sitting at the welder with 20+ hot tools next to me is great in the winter, I don't even have to turn the heat up. These last few days have been too much for me. 80+ in the shop, then put on long pants, a heavy welding jacket, and a welding hood now we are talking fun.

Now that i have cooled off after that rant I'm ready for the heat, bring it on. :D

Sawyerfortyish · June 09, 2005, 07:54:57 PM

You can only take so much clothing off when your hot but you can always put more on when cold. It sure does feel good to get in the AC tho but then I don't want to go back out in the heat. Gonna start making hay next week and i'm not looking forward to that.

maple flats · June 09, 2005, 09:42:28 PM

Don't get me wrong. I don't like real cold best, just better than real hot. My favorite time of year is what I call flannel shirt weather. If you work hard you can remove the shirt and be just right, if you slow down just put the flannel shirt back on. For me this is between about 45 and 65 degrees.

Brad_S. · June 09, 2005, 09:59:38 PM

I'm with you, maple flats. When its 80 and sunny and someone says "Isn't this a GREAT day", I say "No, I like it 55 and cloudy". They always think I'm being a smart(aleck) but I absolutely mean it.

maple flats · June 10, 2005, 05:47:05 AM

OOOoooopps, I forgot, I have been to Fla. eight or ten years ago we went to Disney World, (It was rather cool) and then we drove to Tampa and Clearwater Beach. Walked the beach, on return we crossed the bridge over Tampa Bay 3 times (took a wrong turn, my navigator said one way and I followed, we still laugh over her navigational skills 8)). Then we went to pick up our son who was meeting us at Tampa airport. We got there late because of the bridge thing, but his flight was 5 hrs late so we were still early. The next day we all went to Busch Gardens. All of this time the temps were good so the heat was not an issue. 8) 8)

sawguy21 · June 11, 2005, 09:30:47 AM

I was in Redding CA after Labor Day and it was still 100 by 11 am. I could not take it for long especially in a heavy underpowered truck with no a/c. That is considered a luxury here :D. Mind you, I don't much like -30 either but have learned to live with it.

Fla._Deadheader · June 11, 2005, 09:38:43 AM

Y'all can learn to like heat, too. ;) ;D :D :D :D

redpowerd · June 11, 2005, 09:52:45 AM

thats wat all southerners say!

this heat we have been having has been unbearable. you gotta adjust your schedule so you do your labor early in the morning and sit in the tractor cab in the afternoon. its the only way to get anything done. plus the hay aint dryin down to well with this humidity.

people that tell me i need to cut all my wood before winter are nuts!

Engineer · June 11, 2005, 11:33:21 AM

Heat is terrible, humidity is worse. I could spend all my time in sunny days where the temp was between 55 and 65. My favorite time of the year is september and october where it's cold at night, warm during the day and you can get some things done outside.

Steve · June 11, 2005, 11:55:36 AM

Count me as another that is bothered by humidity. Dry heat is one thing but humidity I just can't seem to deal with. I left Hawaii after 12 years and in all that time I just couldn'tget comfortable . Couldn't work in it at all. Just sapped my energy. The temperatures were hardly ever in the 90's but the humidity was always 85% and above.
I loved it when I got to work at higher elevations, 4500' and above, as it was really nice light air up there with the lower humidity.
Eastern Oregon is going to be great for me and my wood. The humidity in the shop has been staying consistently between 47 to 35%.

DanG · June 11, 2005, 12:41:32 PM

I think we all enjoy those median temps. 65-75 is good for me.

The difference is in how we handle the extremes. It's a good thing we are different, else we'd all be puddled up in one little place. Personally, I'd rather mow grass for 9 months than shovel snow for an hour.

Steve, I guess I missed the reports of your move to the mainland. Care to fill us in on what ya got going?

Ed_K · June 11, 2005, 05:30:39 PM

I don't mind the heat much, but the humidity s_ _ ks. I was sawing today and stoped at 1 pm cause it was feeling pretty bad. Come down to the house and the temp was 91, musta been 110 in the mill shed with the motor running. I remember in Tx, it could be 117 in the shade and not feel all that bad. We were packing in a 42" culvert that day.

Steve · June 11, 2005, 05:55:02 PM

DanG

We moved to Oregon last fall and have been remodeling an old house in a little town ever since. I sold the MD in Hawaii but brought lots of wood back with me. Mango, Koa, Curly Robusta, and small amounts of a few other woods. Enough for a couple of years at least. I still am going to do my music wood business. My main tool now is the Hitachi Resaw. I just got a power feed for it last fall. One of those "why didn't I do this long ago" deals.
I've still got www.curlykoa.com, which my son recently updated. Still a work in progress which seems to always be the case with me.
Sure do like it here in Dufur though.
Thanks for asking......

Ga_Boy · June 11, 2005, 06:00:08 PM

I guess growing up in Georgia I got use to the heat and humidity.

There aint nothin better that working a good sweet.

Like today, Dan Shade and me went this morning and got us about 12 or so nice 16' saw logs, this afternoon I replaced that bent hitch on my truck.

I did what I read in a post on the sawing board and wore a long sleaved shirt all day. After I soaked it with sweat I was alright the rest of the day; well that and drinking a lot of gatoraid.

That new hitch is nice and the bumper don't need replacing like those yah hoo's at the GMC dealer said.

Now I got me a class V hitch. 8) 8)

maple flats · June 11, 2005, 06:53:11 PM

Good work on the class 5 hitch, now you have a real workhorse. I removed the mounted fertilizer spreader from the tractor (about 2 hrs), cleaned and oiled it for storage and them pulled the connecting poles on my ATS Peterson to clean and re=lube them. By the time I got that done I was dripping wet, constantly had sweat dripping off my face and I just called it a day. Now I am here with the AC set on 70 and the cieling fan running directly over my head. This is much better now. I will try early in the AM and work til it gets unbearable and then you will see me here again. smiley_contract_point Look here, my contract and my wife say I don't have to work under these conditions 8) I'll catch up when it get bearable again outside, meantime I think I need a nap.

isawlogs · June 11, 2005, 06:57:10 PM

I once went on a trip , was to go down to Florida . 8) Got as far as Georgia and turned around and came back up to North Carrolina .... Where the weather was more to what I could take ... ;D The heat just puts me down and I cant fonction to good ... Well worse then normal ;D

Sawyerfortyish · June 11, 2005, 07:14:33 PM

Backed my pickup in the mill today. Had to put new springs in it some of the leafs had broke and fell off. Well it took all afternoon. The sweat was running off the rim of my hat and dripping as well as running in my eyes. Got done and man am I wiped out. Now I'm sitting in the AC blowing the frost off a cool one

sawguy21 · June 12, 2005, 12:20:41 AM

Ain't that a fun job with sweat and dirt dripping in your eyes. I still prefer heat over cold but 100 plus was a bit much. I remember visiting southern Ontario as a kid and the humidity was brutal.

Norm · June 12, 2005, 07:30:53 AM

I'm not real fond of -20 but this heat and humidity is worse. Started out early yesterday stacking hay in the shed, nice heavy green bales. Wouldn't you know it but the wind would not blow over a mild breeze. Nothing like scratchy hay to make you sweat. Then went over to our shed and moved 2x12's to make room for more wood. Finally caught a break, the neighbor had a huge sycamore tree lean over in the wind, he was gonna tackle it with a chainsaw. Woah no way would he be able to do it safely. I had my trackhoe over there anyways to I moved it and broke it up for him. Had the AC running full blast the whole time. ;D

Engineer · June 13, 2005, 08:11:18 AM

I spent six hours yesterday sawing four pine logs, finishing up the final pieces for my house frame. We didn't put up a small wing owing to having to put up SIPs first, then the small frame. I cut two kingposts, two joists and about 300 bf of 1x boards. I was dyin' from the heat and humidity by 2 pm, and my father wanted to keep going (and he was tailing off!)

I said no. I was sweating more than the lube tank was spitting onto the blade. 80 or even 85 degrees isn't bad at all when the humidity is low, but I can't even tolerate 65 degrees at 90% humidity.

I'm in the office today, AC is on, and I'm STAYIN' here. ;)