Sheesh... its 108 outside....

[The Bigfella]

... and I've got to go into the city.

At least there's a beer at the end of the day.

[Gold Rock]

Let's split the difference. It's about 48F here with cold, grey rain. Wouldn't we both be happier with 78F? I think so...

[John B]

... and I've got to go into the city.

At least there's a beer at the end of the day.


There you go, speaking all foreign.......its 24 inside the boat here. waiting.

[The Bigfella]

Oh yeah. I just checked the radar.. its a gunna rain

[The Bigfella]

There you go, speaking all foreign.......its 24 inside the boat here. waiting.

Same number here... just reversed .... 42.2C

[Larks]

Come on mate, harden up, these yanks will think we're soft or seomething. We had that in the shade here on Tuesday (42degC according to my station under the verandah) and I had to spend the day working on the roof painting the upstairs external walls. My neighbours reckon their pool heating system recorded 76degC (168F) on their roof, which is the same colour as mine. No wonder I was so bloody thirsty afterwards.

I once reframed and resheeted a roof on a high set house in Darwin in November in the middle of the buildup over about 3 weeks - 36degC and 100% humidity. I'd go through 40 litres of water a day, two fills of my 20 litre water cooler, without getting off the roof to pi$$. By about 11.00 am I'd be totally stuffed but my mate would be getting a second wind so I had to keep up wth him. I was very fit by the end of it.

Just towards getting it finished, sheeting was on but not fully screwed down, we had a massive lightning storm and we had to get off the roof.

The next morning I had a call to say a friend who'd been out fishing in his tinny with two mates was hit by lightning while in the tinny and killed. His mates were OK, the only difference was that Alf was in bare feet and his mates had thongs on.

[The Bigfella]

Lifesaving thongs. Bloody amazing.

Harden up you say? I'm heading in to town for a discussion with a client about several tens of thousands ..... some of which goes back to 2007... No need for me to harden up today.

Actually, there won't be any problems with the money.... I think the client was a bit surprised when I mentioned it....

It could be a nice lucrative beer....

[Larks]

In that case, the heat may be your friend?? Make him sweat??

[RFNK]

Luxury!
When I was 14, I got a summer job with a plumber so I could save up and buy the Woodstock album. He hired me to help him put up ventilators on the Nissan hut style factory roofs at the Borg Warner factory near Roselands. This was in the days when heatwaves lasted a week or so. We had to be up there at 4:30 in the morning as by 10:00 the roof was so hot you couldn't touch it without burning. One morning the ladder (double extension ladder) blew over so we were stuck up there til nearly 11:00. The factory workers wouldn't put it back up until after their break - union rule they said. Rick

[The Bigfella]

This was in the days when heatwaves lasted a week or so.


Pre climate change eh?

I'd have busted a worker or two for not putting the ladder back up.

[Bob Triggs]

I hope his underwear catches on fire!:mad:

[PeterSibley]

Yeah ,last years roof job used to end about lunch and start again about 4 .By lunch i couldn't pick up the snips , I took the little digital thermometer up and got a 75 C on the tools .

That's why god made creeks .

[WX]

Well the Sun is over the yardarm and I've had me first beer. Spent the morning pottering around the shed and all I managed to do was rethread a bolt hole on the engine...of course I'm going to have to wait till Monday to buy the bolt to go in it...humph!
I did do two loads of washing as well, so it wasn't a totally slack day.

[ShagRock]

That's fine! You blokes go ahead and brag about your weather, but I dare you to post photos of yer selves in thongs hanging laundry on the line!:D

[RFNK]

I'd have busted a worker or two for not putting the ladder back up.


They were bigger than me.


I dare you to post photos of yer selves in thongs hanging laundry on the line!:D

We would but we'd all be banned

Rick

[The Bigfella]

I'm baaack... and with a most satisfactory result. Most satisfactory. It must have been the hot weather. Maybe the Golden Ales helped?

[Larks]

kerrrchiiing!!!???

[The Bigfella]

Yep. All bar a couple.

[elf]

Unseasonably warm here too - 60F and gently raining. The foxglove I bought bedraggled and dessicated at the end of September is putting up a flower spike, and yesterday I picked a dozen raspberries.

Anyone who thinks we don't have global climate change is stark raving mad or was born in the '90s and has no personal memory of how it should be.

[Paul Pless]

Same number here... just reversed .... 42.2What a coincidence its 42.2F here in Hell right now.

[The Bigfella]

108F again today. I put a bit of mince out on the bench for the Kookaburra, and its "cooked" itself, just sitting there for a couple of hours.

[ian scott]

Good day for moving slowly.

[Nanoose]

108?! :eek:
I really hate the heat... :(

[TimH]

I love the heat as long as I have a nice beach to hang out at :)

[ian scott]

Beer time soon. That'll cool me down.

Cooper's Pilsner. Not tried it before.

[The Bigfella]

Just got off the roof... replaced 4 busted tiles.... damn it was hot up there.... change due to hit in 3 1/2 hours. Can't wait.

[Larks]

Beer time soon. That'll cool me down.

Cooper's Pilsner. Not tried it before.

What did you think of it? I've bought a couple of cartons and have enjoyed it but it seems hard to get hold of and I'm not convinced that it's really worthy of the cost.

[The Bigfella]

I'm not convinced that it's really worthy of the cost.

Cheap beer isn't worth its cost.

Look at it this way....

If you are say 50... you've got say 25 years left.

That's 25 x 52 weeks, 1,300 weeks. Buy decent beer at $10 a carton more... that's $520 a year, for a total of $13,000 that the kids don't get. Tough. It gets better though.... the Present Value of a 25 year stream of payments of $520 is only $6,060 (discounted using a 7% real interest rates)

So... for a week's wages, why would you drink cheap beer?

[Stiletto]

Are you guys OK over there? The news here tonight is full of bushfires occuring really early in the season in NSW because of the temperatures.

[Larks]

Cheap beer isn't worth its cost.

Look at it this way....

If you are say 50... you've got say 25 years left.

That's 25 x 52 weeks, 1,300 weeks. Buy decent beer at $10 a carton more... that's $520 a year, for a total of $13,000 that the kids don't get. Tough. It gets better though.... the Present Value of a 25 year stream of payments of $520 is only $6,060 (discounted using a 7% real interest rates)

So... for a week's wages, why would you drink cheap beer?

I wouldn't, but this may be overpriced for what it is. I've been able to buy, and really enjoy, some of the Belgium and German pilsners, which are also naturally brewed, both in Darwin and here for about $32 to $36 a slab versus $52 or $54 for the Coopers. As much as I'd like to support Coopers,.......$20.00 extra???

[The Bigfella]

I think all of us are OK at the moment... the fires are inland a bit... although there's 80 or so in NSW

[ian scott]

Reporting in on the Cooper's Pilsener.

Very average. The opposite of why I would buy a Cooper's beer. Could have been a low carb beer for all the flavour it lacked. A touch more taste than soda water. Last case for me of that.

Still bloody hot here at just past 10.30 p.m.

Might sleep in the lounge room under the hair conditioner.

[Paul Pless]

I really hate the heat... :(Canadiens:rolleyes:;)

[TimH]

Up here when it hits 80 people start whining.

I can remember as a kid in Chicago it being 104 or 105. Dont remember 108 though.

[Richard Jones]

In 35 years of carpentry, I've worked in everything from 100F with 98% humidity to -35F, knee deep in snow. I'll take the cold over hot any day of the week!

[RFNK]

In 35 years of carpentry, I've worked in everything from 100F with 98% humidity to -35F, knee deep in snow. I'll take the cold over hot any day of the week!


I just can't imagine how you guys do anything in freezing temperatures! Once it gets down to near freezing, let alone actually freezing, my hands ache, my head aches, and everything I bump hurts! I always say I like cold weather but my idea of cold weather is really only around 10c. We've had temperatures of around 15c here in Hanoi this weekend and I had to put on every bit of warm clothing I own. Freezing! Rick

[The Bigfella]

Yeah... here we are, it got to a smidge shy of 109F yesterday (it was 108.5F at the airport apparently)... and today I've got socks and a sweater on... and its raining.