Hot,Hot, Hot How to survive the heat!!!

[Mark Cattell]

And me mate.

 

Could you do my back?

 

That's sounds so wrong...

 

and homo-erotic

[Rich Rule]

That's sounds so wrong...

 

and homo-erotic

 

The shower and volley ball scenes from Top Gun are some of Marks favourite movie moments.

[gensetsteve]

We're thinking about getting an air con unit for the house. The problem is, the cheapest to run and buy ones are evaporative types that increase the humidity in the air as well. The good units that cool and dry the air are very juicy on the electric front - something like 2.5kWh, which works out something like £0.30/hour to run!

 

We have air con on the house. Under 30 deg we dont bother switching it on. Over 30 deg I would not be without it after some of the recent summers. 26 degrees + at night is uncomfortable and for A £1 you can cool the house down in the evenings for a few hrs. We dont really notice the electric as the hot tub uses £60 a month anyway.

[arbogrunt]

like you said mate, frequent, short breaks. On long climbs take a camelbak up with you and drink every 10 mins. The biggest difference I've found in hot weather has been getting a pair of Type A stretchair gladiators to wear in the summer months. They are the coolest chainsaw keks you can get. You can justify wearing A's by putting it on your risk assessment. Early starts and early finishes are a help too, but mid to late afternoon we turn into hot, tired, teddy's and start making mistakes...

[Rich2484]

like you said mate, frequent, short breaks. On long climbs take a camelbak up with you and drink every 10 mins. The biggest difference I've found in hot weather has been getting a pair of Type A stretchair gladiators to wear in the summer months. They are the coolest chainsaw keks you can get. You can justify wearing A's by putting it on your risk assessment. Early starts and early finishes are a help too, but mid to late afternoon we turn into hot, tired, teddy's and start making mistakes...

 

not sure about teddys, try hot sweat covered ball of grumbling mess. Doesn't mean I don't work though

[Le Sanglier]

In chainsaw trousers you will get uncomfortably hot, I put some vaseline in the "sensitive" areas to prevent sweat chafing.

and no this is not a tip from Brokeback Mountain!

[Rich2484]

In chainsaw trousers you will get uncomfortably hot, I put some vaseline in the "sensitive" areas to prevent sweat chafing.

and no this is not a tip from Brokeback Mountain!

 

Isn't there some specialist cream they make for that? Seen the advert with some rather overweight people advertising it!

[Mark Cattell]

like you said mate, frequent, short breaks. On long climbs take a camelbak up with you and drink every 10 mins. The biggest difference I've found in hot weather has been getting a pair of Type A stretchair gladiators to wear in the summer months. They are the coolest chainsaw keks you can get. You can justify wearing A's by putting it on your risk assessment. Early starts and early finishes are a help too, but mid to late afternoon we turn into hot, tired, teddy's and start making mistakes...

 

Like the advice.. type A is a real option in the hot weather and as you have pointed out its advisable to note it on your RA as a control. the early starts sounds good as long as your not outside a nutters window at 6.00am, who then comes out and tries to pull you out the trees for waking him up...

[slack ma girdle]

In chainsaw trousers you will get uncomfortably hot, I put some vaseline in the "sensitive" areas to prevent sweat chafing.

and no this is not a tip from Brokeback Mountain!

 

Shiney lycra legging do the same job under chainsaw trousers, and have the added bonus that you you can do a special dance for your wife before you go to work.

 

Sent from my Galaxy arse using tupping talk.

[born2trot]

Pee on your workmate's T-shirt and wrap it round yer head.

 

Old bedouin trick that , cools the head by convection . ( I've possibly just made that up though )

Some important advice in this thread though ... i was quite distressed one hard day years ago on a sweltering day which took me by surprise because i was mega fit . Had to go to the freezer section of a supermarket to cool myself down quickly which i'm sure was a timely act . Good to get the keks off aswell at breaktimes .