Sayonara summer...........

[Jstpssng]

Funny thing though, the 80' heat that I whine about all summer feels nice when my wood stove is doing it's thing in January.

 

[spitter]

I HATE THE SUMMER!!!!! I can't weight for the first morning I can see my breath. As a carpenter you can always put on more clothes or just dress right in winter when it's 100 and 100% humidity there is now way to get cooler. I was just doing layout last week and the sweat was dripping on the print.I have a few wusses on the crew that cry when it's cold just tell them work faster the heat is in the tools.:drink:

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^
When I did a brief stint with a tree service the guys all wore heavy felt pack steel toed boots and spent a lot of time standing around drinking coffee and complaining about their feet being cold. Being the FNG I was running around doing all of the scud jobs in my rubber boots and never had a chance to get cold.
They would get in the truck and run the heater which would make them even colder as their heavy clothes and boots would insulate them from the heat.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

^^^
When I did a brief stint with a tree service the guys all wore heavy felt pack steel toed boots and spent a lot of time standing around drinking coffee and complaining about their feet being cold. Being the FNG I was running around doing all of the scud jobs in my rubber boots and never had a chance to get cold.
They would get in the truck and run the heater which would make them even colder as their heavy clothes and boots would insulate them from the heat.

If there is anyone tougher than a guy working for a tree service company in Maine, I'd like to know who it might be. I can't imagine anyone needing normal tree service in the Maine Winter, unless it's some sort of desperate emergency...I can't imagine even walking to mailbox in that weather, let alone trimming and felling trees under the most difficult circumstances imaginable. At least they aren't under enemy sniper fire...

'Bout forgot...I hate Winter.

 

[tractorshopper]

Grew up in Michigan. Would be in shorts and t-shirt probably at 60 degrees. Could only swim in Lake Huron for short period each year that it actually warmed up enough. Don't remember the cold affecting me much as we lived outside all day as kids in the snow.

Moved to South Carolina after 7th grade. June 6th. Learned what hot really was. Couldn't go outside for more than 10-15 minutes at a time that first summer in mid-day. Was miserable. Stayed in the house with AC on 65 all day. Went to the lake one time with the youth group. Was hotter than my bathwater. Couldn't believe it. Very very different.

Eventually, my blood thinned out and I developed the tolerance for the heat and humidity. The winters here are mild compared to MI, but they are cold to me now.

Went back to MI one winter in January and it was 8 below the 3 days I was there. Had to buy a new coat to handle it and it was extreme now that I'm not used to it. Funny how perspectives change.

When we moved to SC, we didn't have air conditioning in our car. That didn't last long. Dad went to trade it in and they really didn't want it. Couldn't believe it didn't have AC. Told him it was useless. We already figured that out....

Now my AC is intermittent in my truck and I've been suffering for about a month here. Will be glad when we get into the 80's. Will be sweet relief.

 

[atsah]

If there is anyone tougher than a guy working for a tree service company in Maine, I'd like to know who it might be. I can't imagine anyone needing normal tree service in the Maine Winter, unless it's some sort of desperate emergency...I can't imagine even walking to mailbox in that weather, let alone trimming and felling trees under the most difficult circumstances imaginable. At least they aren't under enemy sniper fire...

'Bout forgot...I hate Winter.

There are a LOT of guys up here that go out at 5:00am every morning year round, start there skidder at 0F and spend the day twitching logs in four feet of snow, old open station Timberjack skidders with a steel seat, they put there lunch on the engine to heat it up, brutal cold..

 

[2LaneCruzer]

There are a LOT of guys up here that go out at 5:00am every morning year round, start there skidder at 0F and spend the day twitching logs in four feet of snow, old open station Timberjack skidders with a steel seat, they put there lunch on the engine to heat it up, brutal cold..

That's why you guys won the war...you're so tough; especially you country folk who make your living by the sweat of your brow (I suppose in the Winter you can't call it sweat) and not lollygagging around in a rent subsidized apartment.

 

[atsah]

lollygagging around in a rent subsidized apartment.

Unfortunately I have seen the lollygagging around people more and more in the city's and suburbs when I go there and that isn't often. I live in Corbin Gore near the Canadian border so none of that stuff here, just hard working people making not a lot of money. It's a tough place to live financially, I worked in MA for 28 years in electromechanical engineering, there you can make four times what people make here.

 

[cqaigy2]

I like working outside when the temp is cooler, i'd rather put on cloths if i get cold. Except when welding outside, not moving much when it get in the teens i would get cold, my feet would get cold etc, unless you caught on fire, then it would feel nice warm, until you put yourself out.

 

[k0ua]

We went from a high of 95 yesterday to a forecast high of 58 today.

Yep, summer just went away like someone turned a switch. Sure was a rapid change.