So whadja do today?

[vharrison2]

I think we may have wasted our money on those things! I think I bought ten or so and maybe 2 or 3 guys are using them. Anything is worth a try in this heat.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I'm not caring much for the hardhat thing, but I do like the "around the neck" bandanna thing. I keep two soaking in ice water. I just googled cooling vests and all of them work like the bandannas. I don't care for soaking my pants, I wish I could find the Blue Ice vests.

 

[Treeman14]

Here ya go, Butch.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=l&q=ht...UIABABGAEoAjABOABIlTlQl4LU5vr_____AZgBr0vIAQE

 

[vharrison2]

Looks pretty cool. The picture at the beach cracks me up though. Like that is what I am wearing next time I go to the beach!!!

 

[MasterBlaster]

That's the one I was talking about! Thanks, Brett!

Dang, they sure ain't cheap!

 

[treeseer]

I jsut saw one of those on a friend in Richmond. He sprays and runs crews and swears by it. It looks too bulky and heavy to me; unthinkable in the tree. and too uncomfortable for claustrophobic me anyuwhere.

I like wearing loose thin longsleeved shirts (castoff business shirts make me a "white-collar professiona), and feeliing the cool from evapotranspiration.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Evapotranspiration doesn't work in high humidity/no breeze scenerios.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I jsut saw one of those on a friend in Richmond. He sprays and runs crews and swears by it. It looks too bulky and heavy to me; unthinkable in the tree.

Bulkier than wearing a jacket in wintertime?

 

[treeseer]

Yes, it's a thicker, heavier jacket, far bigger than any jacket you need in south LA in january

 

[vharrison2]

6-12 pounds would make a big difference in a tree, I would think. One of our guys just started wearing the camel back and said it is a godsend but had to get used to the weight, and those things are probably only 2-3 pounds

 

[MasterBlaster]

Well I'm at least 15 lbs overweight. I'll just hafta lose weight to offset it.

 

[vharrison2]

Bulkier than wearing a jacket in wintertime?

You wear a jacket in wintertime?????????!!!!!!!!!

 

[MasterBlaster]

A jean jacket, yea. 30 degrees is 30 degrees, even in the south.

 

[vharrison2]

Very rarely do we wear jackets here!! Maybe once a year.

 

[treeseer]

In winter I get my warmth from layers of undies, not bulky outies.

Whoops, this is turning into a December thread

 

[matthias]

I wish I had the motivation for a rec climb today but I don't think it is going to happen. I was thinking it would be good for a laugh to hang a mannequin, or a bike or a stove up in a tree. For it to be perfect you would have to do it with no audience and secure the said object with the safety of passerbys in mind. You could even have a rotation with a different object every week/month. A sling and carabiner would be all you would need to hang a mountain bike and would make a unique photo.

 

[Ekka]

Hey good idea, I often think of doing stuff like that.

I re-done your pic as couldn't see ya.

 

[Mr_Brushcutter]

Spent the week felling Silver birch and Hornbeam. Part of a woodland restoration project in Herts. Its not been managed for 60 odd years and the wood is just dieing out. So we went in a cleared some trees.

The trees ranged form 6"-16" Theres a STIHL AV20 on there which was used to cut it down............when it worked

 

[Thor's Hammer]

dum de dum de dum......

 

[vharrison2]

Ekka, good work on the pic