Getting hot!

RedX said:
Yeah.....it's been a bit better the last few days, temp wise, but it was even hotter than ass up in Boone this past weekend when we up there riding. Last week was hotter....the day the AC crapped the bed here at the house, in particular.
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Yea ours **** the bed Friday afternoon and is back online today.
 
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We got a **** ton of rain this week and flooding north of me. The store I’m based out of had about 6” water run through it from flash flooding a couple days ago and then a good heavy rain again today and nope… kalifornia ain’t getting any of it :flipoff2:

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Definitely beating the heat in South Park. High of 59 supposedly but I think it was a bit warmer than that. Looked like rain all day but for a change didn't rain yet today. The last 2 evenings we got pounded pretty hard by rain.
 
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Shared this one with a buddy up north today. This was after the peak heat index of 109, but it was still pretty ****ty.

The only redeeming factor is that it’s dropping into the 70’s overnight. When the overnight low is 80+ it’s brutal walking into the shop in the am.
 
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Highest I saw today was 112* but it was steadily 104-108* most of the afternoon.
 
Looks like we top out at 78 today with some rain in the forecast as well...

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Pretty typical summer weather here.
 
Been like this for a week or so now, kinda where we top out normally, not normal for so many days in a row though.

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CarterKraft said:
Your line of "easy" is confusing to me.
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I'm obviously just bull****ting. I have worked in 110*+ and it's not very fun. Especially if it comes on early in the year when you're not used to to heat yet.

Walnut dryers are 110* and 100% humidity when running :lmao: luckily I didn't have to work inside them much.

The hottest I've ever been was running conduit in a metal barn. 108* outside and my head was ~8" from the roof. No airflow and the roof would burn you if you toughed it. Had to be ~130*. It was so hot I forgot why I was up there the first couple times I went up:laughing: I'd go up and work for about 5 Mins before I had to go down and drink water and remember what I was doing. 108* on the ground felt nice and cool.

I've only just had to work in actual cold this last winter and there is quite the learning curve dealing with frozen ****. My buddy made this mistake of leaving his skid steer tracks all packed with mud on the last above freezing day :lmao: took 30+ Mins to get the thing to move.
SLOWPOKE693 said:
It's been hot as **** here for about 3 weeks....

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I can't fathom near 100* and rain. 75* and rain feels super odd to me.
 
YotaAtieToo said:
I'm obviously just bull****ting. I have worked in 110*+ and it's not very fun. Especially if it comes on early in the year when you're not used to to heat yet.

Walnut dryers are 110* and 100% humidity when running :lmao: luckily I didn't have to work inside them much.

The hottest I've ever been was running conduit in a metal barn. 108* outside and my head was ~8" from the roof. No airflow and the roof would burn you if you toughed it. Had to be ~130*. It was so hot I forgot why I was up there the first couple times I went up:laughing: I'd go up and work for about 5 Mins before I had to go down and drink water and remember what I was doing. 108* on the ground felt nice and cool.

I've only just had to work in actual cold this last winter and there is quite the learning curve dealing with frozen ****. My buddy made this mistake of leaving his skid steer tracks all packed with mud on the last above freezing day :lmao: took 30+ Mins to get the thing to move.


I can't fathom near 100* and rain. 75* and rain feels super odd to me.
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I get it, it's different for everybody. I have worked with some straight ****ing super hero's
Work 12 hours in a 100+* limestone quarry pit assembling a new hoe, he drank 6 12 oz water bottles while I ran out of water in my 5 gallon can (not sure how much was in there) and almost stroked out, tried to leave and lost my keys, I found them in the service truck with it running....
Dropped it in drive found out I left my crane in the air and my outriggers down.....
Called my wife to tell her I was going to near by gas station and if I didn't call back in one hour to call 911.
I drank 64 0z of Gatorade and a bag of plain pork rinds and slept for an hour.
I made the call at the 1 hour mark and drove home the 1 hour.
I didn't die, but it left a impression. I likely was not acclimated for that temp/radiation of working on a limestone floor.
I have never came close to that when working in the cold. I likely have never been in the equivalent cold or stopped working in those temps where hypothermia would be an issue.

Heat is different when WORKING, you will crash and die if you do it wrong.
 
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