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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.

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...

Off shore Caspian Sea comes to mind as well. A pretty good swing from frozen sea to hot when the seals appeared.

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.

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!

Been there, done that! It was even worse taking it out after it had cured.

I’m shocked to see this turned into a dick measuring contest.

LOL

Most things in life, are a dick measuring contest....

Try unloading wrecked train cars in the summer. 5 minutes in 20 minutes out. 175°F in them box cars.

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.

Come South and do a roofing job in August about 1400 hours on any day!!

Barley is worse than oats!

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.

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.

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

I avoid the heat. Always seemed like the sensible thing to do.

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.

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

My two least favorite things....hot and desert

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+