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Campfire Kahuna
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“Throwed some hay for a couple weeks, got on a roof to fix the DirecTV dish”
haha
I went through my books about 3 years ago but purging all that ratfugg. Between 1995 and 2002; I’d roofed about 560 residential homes, not everyone on a summer day but JFC, too many. No way to count the umpteen number of 2hour patch jobs. Asphalt shingles and rib metal.
Pouring concrete, laying block, framing all in between. You got to stay with most of these projects. Can’t be around a bunch of Winston smokers shootin the shît for 20 mins every couple hours.it’s hot, get your head out of your ass and move. Don’t come to my jobsite hungover, suckin on Mtn Dew.
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29 years at Johns Manville, fire proof testing the asbestos loom for final finish. 34 years in flat glass . Brutal heat around the furnaces, plain old scorching everywhere else in that place. Remember many times walking outside in Texas summer heat to cool off and it felt pretty good...
One man with courage makes a majority....
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Campfire 'Bwana
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As said, LOTS of hot jobs out there. Roofers (good God!), steel workers, ramp guys at airports, attic insulation guys...I can't begin to imagine them all.
Cold ones, too. And I bet they have just as many stories. Off shore Caspian Sea comes to mind as well. A pretty good swing from frozen sea to hot when the seals appeared.
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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Back in the day, northern Minnesota, -45° outside at night. Staying overnight in my very inebriated uncle's 8'x12' log cabin hunting shack. Inside was a 55 gallon drum wood stove roaring hot. I was in the top bunk sweating like in a sauna. Finally got up and stood outside in my underwear to cool off. Left the door open, the stove eventually died down, closed the door and finally fell asleep. He slept/was passed out through the whole thing.
Old guy, old guns.
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Campfire Ranger
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Did a bit of asphalt, lots of haying, both stacking bales on wagons and in the barn. Getting up in almost full silos and forking silage around to fill it to the top was nasty. Hauling asphalt in an old Mack with no a/c had its moments when you had to sit in the freshly paved road. Heat coming up, 100 degree air, sun beating down, 23 ton of 300 degree asphalt 2 feet behind you.
But the worst? Hauled 5&10 store freight, had to hand unload multiple stops. Every other week I ran across southern Louisiana, into East Texas. Pick up a loaded trailer on Wednesday evening, let it cook until Saturday. Drag it down to Baton Rouge, listen to the morning weather. 98. Degrees and humidity. Only God knows the temp in the trailer. Bandana in my pocket, gallon of water. Get in the trailer, sweated wet underware already. Bandana on, shirt off, here we go!
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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Top tier of an old stick rack tobacco barn, hanging the sticks full of tobacco as they came in from the fields. Been there, done that! It was even worse taking it out after it had cured.
Deadlines and commitments, what to leave in, what to leave out...
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I’m shocked to see this turned into a dick measuring contest.
LOL
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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I’m shocked to see this turned into a dick measuring contest.
LOL Most things in life, are a dick measuring contest....
Originally Posted by Judman PS, if you think Trump is “good” you’re way stupider than I thought! Haha
Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit.
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Try unloading wrecked train cars in the summer. 5 minutes in 20 minutes out. 175°F in them box cars.
Last edited by mtnsnake; 07/16/21.
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In the desert a car sitting in the sun can hit 160 inside. The steering wheels can be more warmish. I have measured the west-facing house outside wall at 190 in the afternoon sun. I do appreciate insulation.
And, as a kid having lived through summers before air conditioning, it was not pleasant. If we ever lose the electricity supply there will be a mass migration away from the desert.
Retired cat herder.
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Come South and do a roofing job in August about 1400 hours on any day!!
Even birds know not to land downwind!
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Campfire 'Bwana
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I've not gotten that high on the temps, but HAVE worked jobs where it was smart to wear canvas and long sleeves and wet yourself down, rather than burn skin. Shoveled a few August grain bins (oh, gosh, I love OATS) too. Don't miss it, but glad for the experience. Barley is worse than oats!
The only true cost of having a dog is its death.
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Try unloading wrecked train cars in the summer. 5 minutes in 20 minutes out. 175°F in them box cars. My dad was a USDA grain inspector and went to work with him a few times during the summer. Murder inside a box car sitting out in the sun.
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hottest I ever got I think was loading trucks for UPS in the summer.
I've been in tobacco barns and hauled hay
all those jobs where when I was a young man though. I could take it.
have you paid your dues, can you moan the blues, can you bend them guitar strings
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
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We used to play tap-out in the walkin deep freezer at Wendy’s when I was 16
lol
-20 in a t-shirt
You wonder why it takes 13 mins to get your food
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Campfire Tracker
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I avoid the heat. Always seemed like the sensible thing to do.
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Campfire Ranger
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A guy at work was bragging, he and his wife were working outside and it was around 90. Sweating profusely, his wife said she was glad summer was here. It had been cool until then. He was telling how He agreed. That he likes it hot, and sweat doesnt bother him.
Called BS. "You obviously have never had to work in the heat. A few roof jobs as a kid Don't count. I'm talking everyday, all summer. Not stopping because it's hot."
I like it cool. Even cold. But when my snot freezes, it's too cold. And I'm not gonna try some stupid macho BS line.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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The Badwater 135 run starts July 19. Run from below sea level to 8500' on Mt. Whitney.
Hard to beat being a soldier in the sandbox or the jungle wearing full battle rattle all day.
Working in real heat just sucks, I'll take the cold anyday.
mike r
Don't wish it were easier Wish you were better
Stab them in the taint, you can't put a tourniquet on that. Craig Douglas ECQC
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Campfire Ranger
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My two least favorite things....hot and desert
God, Family, and Country. NRA Endowment Member
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I was a material handling consultant for years. Rough times on both ends of spectrum include watching them drop a charge in a Nucor Mill in August with an outside heat index of 115, same outside temp but taking some measurements on a wet end crane in a paper Mill. On the low side surveying a closed steel mill almost at the Canadian border in February (don’t think I was warm for 3 days) and surveying a mill in Finland in February. Both were extreme and all 4 SUCKED.
I’m in Alabama. I routinely play golf when the index is 110+
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