Is anybody getting up early just to work on your car and beat the heat?
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Up early to work on lawn sprinkler system. Seems every lawn sprinkler outfit in our area is booked at least two weeks out. So Hosteen gets his sod shovel and purple bag of tools and parts(wife received bag with purchase of cosmetics) and with knee pad in hand, begins disinterment of 4" pop-up heads. Got the worst ones done and may let rest go until next spring. Or if Hosteen is departed, wife can try and find someone to do the work because lawn sprinklers will no long be a part of my job description.
We go through attic fans frequently. This one just made It the record shortest of 9 months. No more motors from Lowe’s or Home Depot. The retrofit to a sealed, ball bearing unit with framing under the existing mushroom took 3 weeks, early mornings. It’s hot up there.
ive learned I can work in the afternoon on the cars, but the fatigue rate triples and clumsiness sets in. Bought large fans years ago but it barely helps and then there’s this racket the whole time. I’m trying to time shift to the morning as well and be wrapped up by 2-3 regardless of the project. Nighttime is not an option, the mosquitoes are large and intelligent enough here to tattoo their names on by ankles.
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ive learned I can work in the afternoon on the cars, but the fatigue rate triples and clumsiness sets in. Bought large fans years ago but it barely helps and then there’s this racket the whole time. I’m trying to time shift to the morning as well and be wrapped up by 2-3 regardless of the project. Nighttime is not an option, the mosquitoes are large and intelligent enough here to tattoo their names on by ankles.
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You would not like working where I work. No escaping the heat and the cars keep piling in.
If I need to do any work Im up early. 5am works for me. Im up by 4:30 during the week, It calls to be 104* tomorrow. I work on the coast though and it's 20* cooler. I trimmed all my trees last weekend and I was drained by 1:00 each day.
I get up at 6:00 AM and open both garage doors. It’s cool outside in the morning in this mountainous area, usually around 57 F. This cools the garage down to about 68 F. Then I avoid opening the garage doors and just cut through the house or use the back door in the garage to go outside for the rest of the day. The risk of this is letting a varmint in. This evening I heard a skittering sound but it turned out to be a large dragon fly bumping agains the fluorescent lights. Luckily we don’t have rats in this part of the world. The birds of prey pick them off before they make it inland from the coast.
The past week has been pretty humid. Although it's at 14% now, it was at 78% this time yesterday.
As soon as it starts to get slightly light outside, I'll be in the driveway washing & vacuuming. I have to hurry through it before the sun comes up over the neighbor's roof. Once that happens, game over. Because Texas.
My township is very strict with their sound ordinance. Absolutely NO loud activities (mowing, outdoor construction, fireworks, power tools, etc.) before 7am and after 9pm. They are serious about it and enforce it regularly. So, if it is going to be hot out, we try to get anything done outdoors done as soon after 7am as possible.
I just try to avoid working on cars this time of year. Unfortunately, the blower motor quit on the Ranger yesterday so I kind of had to deal with it. Even after the sun went down I was dripping sweat after about two minutes of looking for tools. By the time I was done digging leaves, dirt, and pine straw out of the evaporator box with a plastic fork I had pretty much stopped caring about how nasty I felt.
I love cracking a beer at 5am! No way I can fix my vehicles without one!...or 11
I work nights, so I do easier car repairs around midnight or so.
I only do car work in spring and fall. I absolutely hate sweating while working on cars. The sweat always manages to sting my eyes, when under a car. I have worked in an unheated garage in the peak of winter, down to 30 degrees, and I prefer that to hot and sweaty. So I just avoid working on my cars in the summer.
I solved this problem by having a mini split installed in the garage (Mancave). When I am ready to go out there I crank it down to 76 degees. Within a half hour its nice and crispy cool. Now I just need to get the television hooked up for visual entertainment.
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