Winter climates

Anonymous-0 · Sep 12, 2012

I think it doubles the work load, seems like a fella is always preparing for winter. I have never lived in a warm climate so I wouldnt know if it makes a difference????

Earl Gray · Sep 12, 2012

It makes them lazy! Ever wonder why most industrial
countries are in colder climates!

Lamar Fudd · Sep 12, 2012

(quoted from post at 14:02:34 09/12/12) I think it doubles the work load, seems like a fella is always preparing for winter. I have never lived in a warm climate so I wouldnt know if it makes a difference????

Lyle, it makes you tougher. Check out the beef from Florida compared to Iowa, Nebraska etc. The feedstock has more nutrients in it so the cattle has a better taste; even dairy products are better. Just check out Wisconsin. Not gonna say it make US taste better, but it DOES make us a more hardy breed of 'animal'. Just look at all you accomplish now. I used to be the same in ability to outwork my fellow man. But all of a sudden I turned 60 and something shut down; I can talk a hard days work all day but I just can't do it anymore. So Lyle, get done what NEEDS to get don while you're young and able, because the time is coming when you'll sit at the coffee shop (your barn) and reminisce about what used to be.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 12, 2012

(quoted from post at 14:08:49 09/12/12) It makes them lazy! Ever wonder why most industrial
countries are in colder climates!

know the heat makes me lazy, this summer was pretty warm and I had a hard time doing stuff outside, The cold has the same effect on me also! lol

RBnSC · Sep 12, 2012

I can't tell you anything about cold to speak of but I know all about heat and humidity.Here in Charleston SC it is a rare occurrence that it stays below freezing for more than a day or two and snow that accumulates once every 10 years. The older I get the less tolerance I have for the heat.
Fixed this tire the other day and thought about you.
Ron

Wheat Farmer · Sep 12, 2012

We have heat 90+, and Cold -10 and less. I'm 68 2/3 rds, and started slowing down about 2/3 rds back to a 2/3 day. Ha Ha Gotta have a tractor cab now days.

641Dave · Sep 12, 2012

I feel like I'm just now coming out of summer hibernation.

I can always function in the cooler and even cold, (Texas Cold) but you can only do so much in the heat we've been having. Literally working between dizzy spells. Keeping a cooler of ice water and dipping towels in it, taking breaks. It's almost not worth the effort.

I'm about to get some stuff done that I just couldn't do in the summer heat.

I think I'm going to migrate north someday.

donjr · Sep 12, 2012

Gotta be like a squirrel. Spend all summer gathering and storing away. That way, they can stay in and play with their nuts all winter---

dhermesc · Sep 12, 2012

Try doing that in a foot of snow.

jon f mn · Sep 12, 2012

Spent a year in Sc. was never so cold as when it was 40 and rainin in feb. down there. Will take -40 in mn any day. And the 3 months of 100+ in the summer was miserable. At least here on most nights it cools enough to sleep. I'll stay here thank you very much.

tomturkey · Sep 12, 2012

When the heat makes you body literally sweat gallons, your body cannot tolerate that for extended periods. Cold likewise can be intolerable, with frostbite and freezing fingers toes and such. We just become less productive in either extreme. Not lazy just less productive. Thats my story and I'm sticking to it. gobble

Tom in TN · Sep 12, 2012

Lyle,

It does make a big difference. I live in Middle Tennessee and except for putting up hay for the winter, I haven't even begun to think about any preparations for the cold weather.

I grew up in Northeastern Ohio and I've lived in Maine, Virginia, California, New York, Minnesota, Miami, Georgia, and Tennessee.

I'll take hot weather over snow and ice any day. I honestly don't know why anyone would purposely stay in a cold climate.

Tom in TN

MattE · Sep 12, 2012

Lived in both from Mississippi to Alaska and in between. Currently in North West Pa my take is simple... You can always put om more clothes, you can only take so many off in polite society. And at least we don't have all those creepy crawlies that bite and sting up where it freezes all the time. So if it means I have to cut firewood for two out of the four nice months.... I'll take that any day over 90+

Dave in GA · Sep 12, 2012

Some folks don't figure it out till they retire. Then you see them living in the North in the summer months and in Florida the rest of the year. That's the way to go. I'd choose to live on the Keewenaw peninsula (MI) in the summer and in Destin (FL) the rest of the year. And hang out in Jawjah in between.

Old Roy · Sep 12, 2012

amount of work ya do for one person.. Ya would have yerself dead for sure.If living in a warmer climate.. either from a broken neck lookin at all the keeny clad girls or have yer wife catch ya lookin,.. or just plain work yerself to death.

Dick2 · Sep 12, 2012

Our winter preparation here it to flip the lever on the thermostat from "Cool" to "Heat" - and then we're done with winter prep.

BDT in Minnesota · Sep 12, 2012

Lyle, You could move down to Florida,,but would get some strange looks wearing Hockey Skates with a life jacket.. Don't mention anything about using a tractor to snowplow the skating rink on the lake... Florida people come up here on vacation and often ask why so many cars have electric cords comming out of the grille.. Do they even have electricity down there???

Anonymous-0 · Sep 12, 2012

(quoted from post at 23:50:53 09/12/12) Lyle, You could move down to Florida,,but would get some strange looks wearing Hockey Skates with a life jacket.. Don't mention anything about using a tractor to snowplow the skating rink on the lake... Florida people come up here on vacation and often ask why so many cars have electric cords comming out of the grille.. Do they even have electricity down there???

ouldnt mind going down to see uncle Larry on the corner, that guy would feed me well, he has got more food then costco :wink:

jm. · Sep 12, 2012

I live about 50 miles west of Tom here in Tennesse and in my 70 years have had been all over the world but always just love it when I get back here in Tennessee. And yes it does get cool heer but usually not over a few cold days each winter..

LeonardWD45 · Sep 12, 2012

When I was in the army lived from the equator, Panama , to Fairbanks Alaska. Been hot and wet also colder than I thought posible, field training at Fort Greeley AK -101f January 1996. I will most definately take warm over cold any day.

Leonard

Anonymous-0 · Sep 12, 2012

(quoted from post at 00:20:30 09/13/12) When I was in the army lived from the equator, Panama , to Fairbanks Alaska. Been hot and wet also colder than I thought posible, field training at Fort Greeley AK -101f January 1996. I will most definately take warm over cold any day.

Leonard

went to the dentist today and I asked where he was from cause its a new dentist here. He said he was from Florida. I said are you crazy to come way up here, he said he had just spent 10 years up with the eskimos and he loved it up there. He also said it would be hard to go back south again.

barnE · Sep 12, 2012

Are you using ether to mount that big tire??? Dave

PeteTheRookie · Sep 12, 2012

Ron,
We lived in Mt. Pleasant from summer of "03 thru Feb "08. Summer was too hot and humid and too long for me.
When its too hot the best you can do is wear shorts, loose t shirt and sandals. I used to wet my baseball cap and shirt. But uncovered like that leaves one open to all sorts of bug bites.
Up here in Maine, while it gets cold and does snow when its dry and temp is in the teens you can work all day long. No bugs to bite "ya, cool crisp air to keep you refreshed.
Once it drops in to single digits depending on how windy it is you do have to "take a rest" and just stay inside.
Pete

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