Thread: It's too damn hot!

Or you could eat a banana - plenty of potassium. As for hydration, I take a 5l water cooler (with a big block of ice in it) into my shed, and give up when I finish it!

Originally Posted by Kuffy

I came across something a week or so ago which has changed how my body reacts to hot weather. In recent times when it got hot outside, it would get very hot in the garage quickly when running the dust extractor along with the saw or thicknesser. By about 1pm I have had enough and call it quits for the day. But now I am "working for the man" again and I have to do what ever he tells me to do.

So the second day working for him, it was a hot day about 36° and I needed to chase a forklift around outside in the direct sun on concrete slabs for about an hour, just in my standard work attire being shorts and tshirt. Well sure enough, when I came back into the factory my body had overheated and I was about to throw up. So I said to the bossman, "I know it's as soft as ya can get, but I gotta go home cause I just ain't man enough". And off I trot back home, there was only 45mins left for the day anyway.

Now upon getting home, I searched the symptoms etc being pretty confident that it was just heat exhaustion and not heat stroke. But I came across something about "how to stay hydrated". Seems obvious right, just drink water. But I had drank 6@600ml bottles of water already that day and it was only 2:15pm. But it also said you need potassium which lets the blood flow around the body and I guess spread water around the body. Well since my diet consists of a choice between KFC/maccas most lunches and dinners, there is basically no potassium in my diet at all, and I sure as hell don't eat leafy greens..YUCK!!!!

So now everyday at smoko, I drink a bottle of powerade or gatorade and that stuff has a bunch of sodium/potassium/magnesium and calcium in it. Now today was pretty hot in Melbourne, but I was flat out like a lizard drinkin' all day in the garage except for about an hour when the neighbours had their house auction around midday. I was barely even sweating. Certainly not beads of sweat dripping off my face like usual.

Absolutely tropical this morning, only -15C. And that feels very much warmer than -27C.
My "shed" is heated, approx 1/4 of the dowstairs level in my house. I can close it off,
temp sinks to maybe 14C but it warms up to maybe 17-18C = good for mallet-swinging carving.
The wood pellet stove is in the next room (my #2 kitchen) and it runs 24/7 to heat everything.
Very cool & shady on hot (30C) summer afternoons when the stove is shut down for the season.

Rob, just for your peace of mind, I did my lawns yesterday and tested out the pool, so I am right for today's festivities . . . shed then pool and maybe some liquid refreshment after shed

We just flew in from Texas yesterday morning from 2 to 20 deg to Brisbane at high 20's at 8-00 am, I want to go straight back but a double dose of jet-lag might be harder on the old body.

The BOM site predicted 7 days of 41 degrees or higher for Goondiwindi( on the Qld/NSW border) and with two days of that prediction to go it looks like being correct. The hottest so far was Wednesday when the car thermometer indicated 43.5 on the bitumen while I was travelling. It literally sounded like driving through water as the tar melted.
There has been no shed time since before Christmas even though there is an a/c in the shed.....just too expensive to run.

I was going to do some welding today for my dust extraction ducting boom but on second thoughts maybe not.

Well, I spent the best part of an hour in my shed and have given it up as a bad joke. only 30°, but the humidity it too much.

Originally Posted by Chris Parks

I was going to do some welding today for my dust extraction ducting boom but on second thoughts maybe not.

I started a 10 week welding course course last week at TAFE, i'm all dressed up in my leathers, it hot as , and i'm thinking, why didn't i wait until winter

Flurry of work in the shed on Friday as the temp wasn't too bad. Fitted the mods. to the front of the extraction system. Hot yesterday while doing some testing (anemometer was showing 31.9 degrees for the air coming through the ducting) but noticed a vibration in the system because of the solid pipe connection from the dusty to the ducting - previous 5" to 6" had flexy. Thought to myself I'll cut the pipe and put a small length of flexy in tomorrow. Just went into the shed - 35 degrees at 11am. 38degrees at 12:10 and rising
It can wait.

This was the temp under my pergola Monday just gone, much better today, overcast and around 30deg.

I want air conditioning but I don't even have DC yet.

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Originally Posted by bryn23

As much as i love air con, and have spent most of the summer in it, with a 6 mtr high roof industrial shed, the electrically bill would hurt more than the heat would...

i miss cooler climates, so much easier to heat than cool.

Cold air falls. You only need to cool the first 2m.

Originally Posted by Pat

Rob, just for your peace of mind, I did my lawns yesterday and tested out the pool, so I am right for today's festivities . . . shed then pool and maybe some liquid refreshment after shed[emoji481]

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Originally Posted by DaveVman

Cold air falls. You only need to cool the first 2m.

Power tools, machinery and humans make air hot and end up mixing it.
Not to mention dust extraction.

Originally Posted by BobL

Power tools, machinery and humans make air hot and end up mixing it.
Not to mention dust extraction.

There must be some clever way to cool a big shed without full on air conditioning. I doesn't need to be perfect. As long as it was 27 or below the body isn't fighting to cool down.
The problem we have here in SE Queensland is that it is both hot and humid. So evaporative cooling is not as effective as elsewhere.

I have been thinking about doing a little experiment with evaporative cooling just to see how it would go. However I still don't have DC sorted out so I really don't want to close the windows and doors. In fact I have most things on casters now so that I can work outside.

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