It’s too hot to mow.

[RugerSAfan]

Good info on not mowing above 85 degrees for us northern folks; thank you. Hopefully not too much damage mowing yesterday and today the 10 + acres in 90 + heat, mowing VERY slowly with an open cab tractor with no canopy. Kept thinking about the old-timers that worked the fields with open tractors in Arkansas, Texas, etc. and kept telling myself to "toughen up" as I was getting parched.

A deceased buddy of mine that was older than me used to work on road crews in the summer and volunteered for sub zero linemen assignments to avoid his soon to be ex-wife. He was much tougher than me.

And he commented that as he got older, his comfort range started to shrink. He couldn't tolerate the cold or heat as well.

I've found the same for me. I had a strong dose of COVID in July 2020; ever since, direct sunlight of 80 on my bald head feels like its 100. Very strange, since heat didn't use to bother me....

 

[RidgeTopWVA]

YOU may have 30 minutes of grass cutting, but some of us have acres to cut. Ain't no 30 minutes thing. (plus some medications limit your ability to sweat. No sweat = heat stroke.)

I have a JD X758 60" deck I mowed for about 220 hours last year I will probably mow that many hours or more this year. Then I have some seat time bush hogging as well.

 

[bigtiller]

Funny, I guess some are too pampered to do outdoor work without cool aid and AC. I understand some in this forum spend hours working their fields, and a cab w AC is warranted, but I have to laugh when AC becomes a necessity in order for them to get on their lawnmower, with a front loader, and cut grass for 30 minutes.

Laugh all you want my friend, I won't hear you.

 

[RidgeTopWVA]

For the folks like myself that are not cutting hay but using a rotary cutter to clean up around the farm: It is way too hot to mow. In the sun, sitting on a diesel tractor, over 50, overweight one is flirting with a heat stroke. We still do it.

I am 65 yrs old and the heat or cold has ever stopped me but then again I grew up on hay wagons and I now weigh 168 pounds at 6'1" , I drink plenty of water and the sweat and hot weather is good for a person helps you burn calories.
Bring it on.

 

[marhar]

I am 65 yrs old and the heat or cold has ever stopped me but then again I grew up on hay wagons and I now weigh 168 pounds at 6'1" , I drink plenty of water and the sweat and hot weather is good for a person helps you burn calories.
Bring it on.

I said we still do it...that is, we still work in the heat. For me, it is just getting harder as I get older.

 

[RidgeTopWVA]

I said we still do it...that is, we still work in the heat. For me, it is just getting harder as I get older.

I understand Bud...getting old is not easy is it ? I was carrying an extension ladder the other day and it felt a lot heavier than it did 20 yrs ago.

 

[G31]

Funny, I guess some are too pampered to do outdoor work without cool aid and AC. I understand some in this forum spend hours working their fields, and a cab w AC is warranted, but I have to laugh when AC becomes a necessity in order for them to get on their lawnmower, with a front loader, and cut grass for 30 minutes.

I take it you don’t have AC?

 

[RidgeTopWVA]

I take it you don’t have AC?

I always thought a cab with A/C would be great, cool in the summer and warm in the winter and dry during the rain but I have too many tree branches in the woods for a cab.

 

[check]

Heading out to mow right now. It is only 70° right now, but will be over 90 this afternoon.

Oops! That was supposed to be postrd yesterday afternoon. Anyway, I mowed the front yard for maybe an hour, and then the heat build up enough that I quit. Will start again tomorrow because it’s again cooler in the morning.

Super hot days up here will be over effective Friday. Still a fire ban in effect, meaning this week’s renters will not be allowed to have a fire in the fire pit. They won’t be happy, because the fire, pit is a big attraction!

 

[5030]

Here ya go....Make you feel better....