Texas Spring/Summer Thread

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I think today you should throw up one of those 10'X10' pop up tents by your truck like we had at Jim's.

Today is heavy trash day in the County. I'll take all my nonburnables to town. This once every 2 month free dumpster use really keeps the dumping down in the county.

Don, where's that dumpster? By the old hospital?

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

They're saying today's thermadiity index (what the temperature feels like on the body) is going to be 109 today. I'm stuck between a really hot place and an even hotter place. I bid on a job to build this really kewel project for the local fire department. In my bid I explained that I had to haul butt for Santa Fe and then Arixzona no later than the 11th of August. It looks like I will be at least two days late leaving because of the time it takes the city to shuffle paperwork.

Ten or so years ago I accepted that the body wasn't what it once was. When I was young I would get hot and grab a lower gear and keep on plugging along. The transmission no longer functions when it gets hot. Some times it will take me two hours to just gather tools and climb into the truck when I get overheated.

Today will be fun. It will be hot, everything will be even hotter because it is steel and welding, the location is a concrete building in a parking lot, no shade, and all of it is heavy. But it is what I do.

I wouldn't change a thing.

You guys are conditioned for heat far better than myself. I work daily in air condition so it doesn't take much heat to send me back into the house. Ten years ago, when we were putting our home on this place (and I did a bunch of french drain type work) I had got conditioned fairly well. I joked with my contractor that he could hire me as his laborer helper. We both just laughed.

I am debating on filling the 5420 with $80 of diesel and do some shredding.

It's been a while since we've had any rain on our place.

 

[robbyr]

I don't know what our average annual rainfall is or exactly how much we've gotten this year but my "gee we've really been blessed with some rain more than the last few years" detector seems to be detecting.

 

[sixdogs]

For those of us that struggle with the sun and heat in Ohio, I get up before dawn, hit the work early and then take a break around noon as things start to heat up and the sun is high in the sky. Lunch, for sure and maybe a nap. Then later in the day as it cools down I get back in gear and do whatever needs doing as it gets cooler.

It works great, I feel better and easily accomplish more than I did when it was a single stretch of work. The key is to get out the door early and not dawdle around.

For those of us that are older, this also seems to make the day go slower and seem longer. Time seems to slow down a bit and I'll take that any day of the week.

 

[txdon]

Don, where's that dumpster? By the old hospital?

Each of the 4 county precincts has a different place, Pct-3 (Northwest) is one block west of the Lexington Police Department. Give your county Commissioner a call, I have mine on speed dial - You would understand if you lived on a muddy county road. (good news- after 20 years it's no longer muddy they hauled in a bunch of big sharp rocks.)

Kyle, up in Wise County they used the extra tax money from the oil boom to improve roads. I have got to figure a way to make the Commissioner think that he came up with that idea for Lee County.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Kyle, up in Wise County they used the extra tax money from the oil boom to improve roads. I have got to figure a way to make the Commissioner think that he came up with that idea for Lee County.

While you're at it, have them fix their side of the hemorrhoid highway, but mostly, Burleson county needs to fix theirs. It's worse than a gravel road. More potholes and patches than pavement.

 

[Bird]

For those of us that struggle with the sun and heat in Ohio, I get up before dawn, hit the work early and then take a break around noon as things start to heat up and the sun is high in the sky. Lunch, for sure and maybe a nap. Then later in the day as it cools down I get back in gear and do whatever needs doing as it gets cooler.

It works great, I feel better and easily accomplish more than I did when it was a single stretch of work. The key is to get out the door early and not dawdle around.

For those of us that are older, this also seems to make the day go slower and seem longer. Time seems to slow down a bit and I'll take that any day of the week.

I don't know what part of Ohio you're in, but I spent Sept. 6 to Oct. 29, 1993, doing a gas leakage survey in Brunswick. We were staying in an RV park west of Medina. It was actually pretty nice weather; mid-50s to 80 early in the job and 40s later. So 3 of us worked pretty much "normal" business hours on that job.

But then in the summer of 1994, I was doing gas leakage surveys in west Texas; one to three weeks in each of several different towns. I was working alone on those jobs, and in the Texas heat, I got to my starting point each morning just as soon as there was enough daylight to be able to read meter numbers without a flashlight; usually around 6 a.m., skipped lunch and quit between 2 and 3 p.m. most days.:laughing:

 

[CowboyRon]

I don't know what our average annual rainfall is or exactly how much we've gotten this year but my "gee we've really been blessed with some rain more than the last few years" detector seems to be detecting.

We are blessed compared to the last few years, but in North Texas we are still 10" behind the average rainfall.
The good news is our cattle still have good grass to eat, and it's been a good year for hay. I bet most of the guys here get 4 cuts.

 

[txdon]

. . . and it's been a good year for hay. I bet most of the guys here get 4 cuts.

Same here in Central TX. Almost everyone has had 3 cuts and the grass is still growing. However, the August heat is starting to dry things out quickly.

 

[sseelhoff]

Same here in Central TX. Almost everyone has had 3 cuts and the grass is still growing. However, the August heat is starting to dry things out quickly.

Our grass is getting brown and crispy.