You get used to it
I am looking forward to having some time in the cold weather this year to do some work. For us here we have had deep snow cover from before Christmas till March the last 3 years. Not nearly the worst of situations but it does shorten the enjoyable time I have to split. I too refuse to split in the heat of the summer.
Would like to catch a spell of frozen, snow free weather to maybe get ahead.
--the heat, it just takes doing it. Took me a coupla years as a transplant, but I adjusted OK. It's like the Pacific northwest guys here who say if they didn't work in the rain, they wouldn't get anything done. Down here, where it gets actually not, not just sorta hot, we work all year round, even in mid summer..or we wouldn't get anything done.
Really, the big problem here is very similar to what a lot of ya'all have, access to where the wood is. Here it is mud, like now, I can't take anything into any field back to the woods or it will rut out***. I'll be walking in once a week or so for a few weeks now and dropping some, but that's it, won't be bucking or hauling out for awhile now. We may, or *may not* get a stretch of frozen enough ground (frozen deep enough) for access like in February or something, too much of a variable here. Up north, you get a double whammy, mud and too deep of snow sometimes. Here, our best access to the woods is always mid summer, ground is hardest then.
***side issue but I got to rant, good story anyway. Speaking of freaking ruts, MAN did I get hot today. Out checking the stock this morning and found a stuck Honda SUV in the fields. Obviously some bubba looking for some cheap fuel burning sport last night wanted to go do a little mud slinging bogging in the fields. I am staring at this overlapping set of ruts all over...man...I got really REALLY mad. I don't get mad like this too very often. Anyway, because the vehicle is there, tag still on it, etc, I go swell, call the cops, then while waiting for them I am gonna do a tap dance on this rig with my axe I am carrying, just a little custom bodywork...but..can't do it. It turns out it was one of the boss's friends grandson, he had to rat himself out to his folks because he got too stuck to get out. So the friend called my boss and told him, so I decided not a good idea to rearrange the sheet steel and glass on the honda..man I wanted to.
Allegedly the fun seeker is going to come back and fix the ruts..we'll see. They drug it out with a back hoe today, still some nice fat ruts I am supposed to mow over/hay come spring.
I don't get it,,,do young people ever WALK any place any more? I don't see it, every punk around here is always burning fuel in something or another. I hardly ever see anyone WALKING. Young or old. ME I know I walk, many miles a day inspecting, but I don't see anyone else. People drive down to their mailboxes, WTH??? When I was a kid, seems like we didn't drive that much, walked or rode bikes a lot, even after getting a license. I mean, is the only way to "have fun" today burning fuel and/or playing video games?
Sorry about the rant, just hate ruts. It would have been my low paid scrawny butt out there fixing them, for no more extra pay, if he hadn't gotten stuck and therefore caught.