Triple digit weather.

[wedge40]

How many people here have not let the 100 degree plus weather interfere with their tractor work? I've cut way back on my outside work since we've had the extreme heat. Then again I'm by myself and have some mild heart conditions.

Wedge

 

[rswyan]

How many people here have not let the 100 degree plus weather interfere with their tractor work?

Not so much - but I vary my work during the day to keep me in the shade as much as possible on the hotter days .... if it's really humid out I'll try to find something to do inside ....

On the bad days I try to avoid heavy physical exertion ....

I've cut way back on my outside work since we've had the extreme heat.

I've been out in it all day long today (open station - no cab or AC) .... got up to around 99 or 100 here, with a heat index of around 115 .... down to 97 now .... just came into cool off and get a drink - try to do that quite a bit - at least once per hour.

Right now I've been moving rocks from up by garden down to the polebarn .... 85% of my travel path is in the woods, there's shade and a breeze (albeit a very warm one)

Then again I'm by myself and have some mild heart conditions.

Same here - wife is at work right now .... I make sure I always have the cellphone on me tho' ....

 

[dmccarty]

I went out today and mowed with the DR. It hit 100 before the wifey put the thermometer in the house to wash off the porch. I would have skipped mowing but we have an appraiser showing up on Monday for our ReFi. This was the first time I have mowed all season so the grass was a bit on the long side. lol The temps are supposed to drop into the low 80s in a few days so I would have waited.

I drank plenty of water and juice and ate quite a few handfuls of peanuts. I put a ice pack in a wet towel around my neck and then put one or two more wet towels around the ice pack towel. Keeping the heat off your head/neck can do wonders. I still had to stop every hour or so to get out of the sun to drink water/juice and eat peanuts. Peanuts have fat, protein, and lots of Pottasium which your body needs. The shower felt REAL good!

Feel very sorry for those people still without power in this heat.

Later,
Dan

 

[grnspot110]

I don't handle either extreme (hot or cold) like I used to. Watered all morning, then worked in my (air conditioned) shop this afternoon until it hit 95 in there. Outside made it up to 108* today, my memory isn't the best, but I don't remember it ever being that hot around here in my 61 years! ~~ grnspot

 

[NoTrespassing]

It was 104 yesterday and 105 today here in central Illinois. Yesterday I HAD to work outside and I had a few drinks the night before. Our goats tore up one of the chicken cages so I had to relocate the chickens and move a few cages to another pasture with the tractor. Like a fool I waited until noon to do it and it took almost 1 1/2 hours. I really thought I was going to pass out before I finished. I was still sweating so I kept going.

Kevin

 

[wedge40]

I really thought I was going to pass out before I finished. I was still sweating so I kept going.

Kevin

Kevin, I'm no doctor, but I'm pretty sure once you stop sweating it's TO LATE.

 

[NoTrespassing]

That's why I kept going, I had about 5 minutes of work left. I figured if I was still sweating I could make it to the house. I really need to get some more life insurance. I've got a 3 month old son.

Kevin

 

[techwrtr2]

I milled stumps all day. I rented the machine, had reserved it weeks ago and scheduled the time for me to do it. Just haven't figured out how to schedule decent weather. I think we topped out right at 100* + whatever the humidity added, I don't recall looking to see where it was.

Mill a stump, come inside for an hour or so to drink fluid and cool off. Go back to work. For having spent pretty much the entire day under the sun, I didn't even get a sun burn.

 

[300UGUY]

I was getting some stuff done, right until we got to the triple digits. I don't have anything to do, that needs doing that bad!! I 'll give er tomorrow.

 

[rekees4300]

How many people here have not let the 100 degree plus weather interfere with their tractor work?

As they say "Discretion is the better part of valor". When the thermometer reads 107.3 :fire: I stop thinking JD and start thinking AC. Let Mother Nature do her thing, respect it, and wait for a better day.