Senile Texas Aggie - comic relief for the rest of you

Bruce said:

I'm impressed that he was able to break the breaker bar!

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Baymule said:

That takes real talent.

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Having a foot long cheater pipe on the end is what enabled me to do it.

This morning we get back at it again, chipping the brush pile. I managed to get another tree jammed in the flywheel again, but this time the nut holding the wrench knew not to try to loosen the welded nut! The tree easily unjammed and we got back after it. But by 10 AM we were exhausted. Plus, I am a bit more cautious about continuing to work in the heat, because the first day James and I started building the fence along the drive I worked too long and ended up with heat exhaustion. It took me several hours to recover from that. But since my Beautiful Gal and I are (as Miss @farmerjan put it) "retarded", then we can work as long as we want and we can quit when we want. I feel really sorry for folks who have to work out in the heat all day. I guess a person can get accustomed to the heat, but it certainly takes a toll on a body, especially as s/he gets older. But we plan to stay at it until the pile of brush is completely chipped, which at the rate we are going should be some time this fall.

Senile Texas Aggie

That’s what we do. We go out early to work then quit anywhere from 11AM to 1PM. Too hot, not worth killing our selves over it.

CntryBoy777 said:

.it is habitual to look around and see if anyone "witnessed" it.....

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Except here on BYH - we tell all and award ourselves a Zinger™ award.

Yeh....but if nobody saw it we can embelish it a bit and nobody knows any better.........

I don't know, we manage to do things so well they don't need embellishment!

Don't overdo it out there STA....that heat can grab ya pretty quickly....don't ignore the "signs"....and for goodness sake, if ya stop sweating....it is critical to get inside and cool down ASAP.....chipping wood ain't worth it.....

CntryBoy777 said:

Don't overdo it out there STA....that heat can grab ya pretty quickly....don't ignore the "signs"....and for goodness sake, if ya stop sweating....it is critical to get inside and cool down ASAP.....chipping wood ain't worth it.....

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Thanks, Mr. @CntryBoy777! My Beautiful Gal and I are taking care of ourselves. With the temperatures supposedly dropping a bit this coming week maybe she and I will be able to work longer than we do now, which is about 2 hours!

I keep forgetting to get before pictures, so I will try to remember some "during" pictures of the brush pile and 3 days of chipping. As for

Bruce said:

I don't know, we manage to do things so well they don't need embellishment!

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that certainly applies to me! I screw up often enough and bad enough that I don't need to embellish them!

Senile Texas Aggie

We find that we can work outside several hours with an early start, then lay up under the AC.....

And you start working at the temps I start melting! The hot and humid has left for now, time to go out and get some work done.

Bruce said:

The hot and humid has left for now

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We survived this weekend's hot and humid weather. It has left for now but will be back later this weekend.